Choice Reviews Online· 2014
Sustainable fashion and textiles: design journeys
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Short summary
This book synthesizes lifecycle sustainability impacts, practical alternatives, and design concepts in fashion and textiles, challenging conventional views with a pluralistic and forward-looking approach.
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Key points
- Covers the full lifecycle of fashion and textiles: material cultivation, production, use, and disposal.
- Explores design approaches like service design, localism, and user involvement to alter consumption.
- Integrates concepts such as systems thinking, human needs, and slow fashion.
- Challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainability in the industry.
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Abstract
Publisher's description: Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys brings together for the first time information about lifecycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation. It challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainability issues in fashion and textiles, and sets out a more pluralistic, engaging and forward-looking picture, drawing on ideas of systems thinking, human needs, local products, slow fashion and participatory design, as well as knowledge of materials. The book not only defines the field, it also challenges it, and uses design ideas to help shape more sustainable products and promote social change. Arranged in two sections, the first four chapters represent key stages of the lifecycle: material cultivation/extraction, production, use and disposal. The remaining four chapters explore design approaches for altering the scale and nature of consumption, including service design, localism, speed and user involvement. While each of these chapters is complete in and of itself, their real value comes from what they represent together: innovative ways of thinking about textiles and garments based on sustainability values and an interconnected approach to design.
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