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The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by
In "The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion," Tansy E. Hoskins unpicks the threads of capitalist industry to reveal the truth about our clothes. Fashion brands entice us to consume more by manipulating us to feel ugly, poor and worthless, sentiments that line the pockets of billionaires exploiting colonial supply chains. Garment workers on poverty pay risk their lives in dangerous factories, animals are tortured, fossil fuels extracted and toxic chemicals spread just to keep this season’s collections fresh. We can do better than this. Moving between Karl Lagerfeld and Karl Marx, "The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion" goes beyond ethical fashion and consumer responsibility showing that if we want to feel comfortable in our clothes, we need to reshape the system and ensure this is not our last season.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780745346656Publication Date: 2022
Clothing Poverty by
Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling?Following a pair of jeans, "Clothing Poverty" takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and clothing recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents, uncovers how retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty, and exposes the hidden trade networks which transect the globe. Stitching together rich narratives, from Mozambican markets, Nigerian smugglers and Chinese factories to London's vintage clothing scene, TOMS shoes and Vivienne Westwood's ethical fashion lines, Brooks uncovers the many hidden sides of fashion.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9781783600670Publication Date: 2015-02-12
The Conscious Closet by
With her landmark investigation "Overdressed," Elizabeth Cline was the first to reveal fast fashion's hidden toll on garment workers, the environment, and even our own satisfaction with our clothes. "The Conscious Closet" shows exactly what we can do about it. Based on her personal experiences getting off the fast-fashion treadmill and figuring out a common-sense, affordable approach to style, Elizabeth shares how to pare down your closet; swap, resell, or recycle what you don't love; care for and repair what you do; and how to affordably buy, thrift, or rent the ethical wardrobe of your dreams.
Call Number: On orderISBN: 9781524744304Publication Date: 2019-08-20
The Dangers of Fashion: Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions by
From sweatshops to fur farming, from polluting chemicals to painful garments, the fashion industry is associated with activities which have had devastating effects on workers, consumers, and the natural world. This ground-breaking volume provides a framework for examining the ethical, social, and environmental dangers that arise as fashion products are designed, manufactured, distributed, and sold within retail outlets, before being consumed and disposed of. Encompassing the cultural, psychological, and physiological aspects of fashion, it offers a comprehensive exploration of the hazards of a global industry.
Drawing together an international team of leading textile and apparel experts, The Dangers of Fashion presents original perspectives on a wide range of topics from piracy and counterfeiting to human trafficking; from the effects of globalization on local industry to the peer pressure that governs contemporary ideals of beauty. Rooted in research into industry and consumer practices, it discusses innovative solutions-both potential and existing-to fashion's dangers and moral dilemmas from the viewpoint of individuals, companies, societies, and the global community.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9781350052017Publication Date: 2020
Designing Fashion's Future: Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change by
How do fashion designers design? How does design function within the industry? How can design practices open up sustainable pathways for fashion's future? "Designing Fashion's Future" responds to these questions to offer a fresh understanding of design practices within the sprawling, shifting fashion system.
Fashion design is typically viewed as the rarefied practice of elite professionals, or else as a single stage within the apparel value chain. Alice Payne shows how design needn't be reduced to a set of decisions by a designer or design team, but can instead be examined as a process, object, or agent that shapes fashion's material and symbolic worlds.
Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9781350092488Publication Date: 2021
Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion by
For centuries, the fashion industry has struggled to reconcile style with sustainability. In "Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion," you will be transported back in time to discover the historical dimensions of today's sustainable fashion movement. An array of success stories and cautionary tales provide both inspiration and warnings for the eco-conscious designer, encouraging an innovative approach that builds on predecessors' discoveries to move the practice of fashion forward.
Call Number: TT515 .H65 2023ISBN: 9781350160446Publication Date: 2023-02-09
Naked Fashion: The New Sustainable Fashion Revolution by
"Released to coincide with London Fashion Week, Safia Minney - the founder of People Tree, the pioneers in fair trade fashion - presents a guide to a more ethical, diverse and creative approach to the fabulous world of style and fashion, which has a history of exploitation on many levels. Presented as a highly visual title, this perfectly timed release includes stunning photography, interviews with key players who are revolutionalising fashion and examples of how people are doing things differently to create a more ethical fashion world."
Call Number: JZ1318 .N354 2011ISBN: 9781780260419Publication Date: 2012-04-10
Nature: Collaborations in Design by
An exploration of the ways in which designers are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. Designers today are striving to transform our relationship with the natural world. While the modern industrial age gave way to designs that vastly improved human enterprise through technology, there were unintended and destructive consequences for the environment. Humans are intrinsically linked to nature yet our actions have frayed this relationship, forcing designers to think more intentionally and to consider the impact of every design decision, from an artifact's manufacture and use to its obsolescence. Designers are aligning with biologists, engineers, agriculturists, environmentalists and many other disciplines to design a more harmonious and regenerative future. Based on these new partnerships, designers are asking different questions and anticipating future challenges, which not only change the design process, but also what design means. "Nature: Collaborations in Design" includes over sixty-five international projects from the fields of architecture, product design, landscape design, fashion, interactive and communication design, and material research. More than 300 compelling and exquisite photographs, illustrations and content from data visualizations illustrate seven essays, which explain and explore designers' strategies around understanding, simulating, salvaging, facilitating, augmenting, remediating and nurturing nature. Four conversations between scientists and designers delve into topics related to synthetic biology, scientific versus design lexicon, and recent shifts in the meaning of nature with a glossary illuminating scientific, technological and theoretical concepts and processes invoked by the designers.
Call Number: NK1520 .N38 2019ISBN: 9781942303237Publication Date: 2019-05-21
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by
"Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenny now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. And we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when styles change so fast and it's cheaper to just buy more.Cline sets out to uncover the true nature of the cheap fashion juggernaut. What are we doing with all these cheap clothes? And more important, what are they doing to us, our society, our environment, and our economic well-being?"
Call Number: HD9940.2 .C54 2013ISBN: 9781591846543Publication Date: 2013-08-27
Sustainable Fashion by
"Sustainable Fashion: Take Action," Third Edition presents a fresh exploration of practices that are underway in design and production within the fashion industry and the possibilities for future directions that can be taken now. This book focuses on innovative action needed to achieve the goal of creating healthier environments, reducing climate change, and improving the well-being of all people as they choose and wear clothing. This third edition continues to delve into the role that fashion plays in a sustainable future, through the interconnected model of "Connecting with People, Processes, and Environment", which marks the focus of the book's three sections. Covering a wide range of sustainability practices, the chapters are written by both academic and industry professionals, providing a balanced view of the topics with breadth and depth and suggesting routes for further examination.
Call Number: TT497 .S97 2023ISBN: 9781501385711Publication Date: 2022-10-06
Sustainable Fashion - Why Now? by
Through a collection of specially commissioned essays, "Sustainable Fashion: Why Now?" examines the issues of sustainability that designers, product developers, and consumers confront as they go about the business of creating, wearing, and recycling clothing and fashion. In a broader sense, the book considers what 'sustainability' means alongside 'fashion'- two seemingly contradictory concepts because fashion is all about change and sustainability is all about preservation. Through a lively range of perspectives, the authors engage their readers in a dialogue on sustainable fashion that generates new ideas on how to produce fashion with a sense of ethics, organic or renewable resources, and socially responsible manufacturing techniques. This book is divided into three sections, each focused on an in-depth exploration of sustainable opportunity- Connecting with Consumers on Issues Relating to Sustainable Practices; Production and Economic Processes in the Global Economy and The Environment, the Planet, and the Materials Used in Fashion Making. This structure provides an interconnected and circular way to explore the creation and practice of sustainable fashion that is not possible through old, linear models of understanding the fashion industry. Features- best practices that demonstrate, through interviews and examples, sustainable business practices in real-life scenarios; examples of syllabi, assignments, in-class activities, discussion questions, and worksheets; comprehensive lists of key terms and websites for more information.
Call Number: TT497 .H47456 2008ISBN: 9781563675348Publication Date: 2008-04-14
Sustainable Fashion: New Approaches by
This publication aims to provide a source of inspiration for students, designers and companies, and all stakeholders whose interest lies in the area of sustainable fashion. The book presents approaches to fashion that embrace future-oriented value. Several chapters illustrate how effective fashion can be as transformative design or change agent experimentation. A sustainable approach can also reframe current business thinking and reveal opportunities for innovative business strategies. "Sustainable Fashion" proposes how we can make positive change in current practices and how to effect new mindsets, creating transformation in fashion.
Call Number: TT507 .S87 2013ISBN: 9789526055725Publication Date: 2013
Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present, and Future by
"Sustainable Fashion" provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century. Employing an expanded definition of sustainability that also considers ethical issues, Farley Gordon and Hill explore each stage of the fashion production cycle, from the cultivation of raw fibers to the shipment of the finished garment. Structured thematically, each of the six chapters is dedicated to the discussion of one major issue, from recycling and repurposing to labor practices and the treatment of animals. Including interviews with eco-fashion designers, "Sustainable Fashion" will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, as well as students of design, history and cultural studies.
Call Number: TT507 .F295 2015ISBN: 9780857851857Publication Date: 2015-01-15
To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World? by
"Coming at a time when the global financial crisis and contracting of consumer spending is ushering in a new epoch for the fashion industry, To Die For offers a very plausible vision of how green could really be the new black. Taking particular issue with our current mania for both big-name labels and cheap fashion, To Die For sets an agenda for the urgent changes that can and need to be made by both the industry and the consumer. Far from outlining a future of drab, ethical clothing, Lucy Siegle believes that it is indeed possible to be an 'ethical fashionista', simply by being aware of how and where (and by whom) clothing is manufactured. The global banking crisis has put the consumer at a crossroads: when money is tight should we embrace cheap fast fashion to prop up an already engorged wardrobe, or should we reject this as the ultimate false economy and advocate a return to real fashion, bolstered by the principles of individualism and style pedigree? In this impassioned book, Siegle analyses the global epidemic of unsustainable fashion, taking stock of our economic health and moral accountabilities to expose the pitfalls of fast fashion. Refocusing the debate squarely back on the importance of basic consumer rights, Siegle reveals the truth behind cut price, bulk fashion and the importance of your purchasing decisions, advocating the case for a new sustainable design era where we are assured of value for money: ethically, morally and in real terms."
Call Number: GT525 .S54 2011ISBN: 9780007264094Publication Date: 2011
