Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry
Civilization crisis, Decolonization, Cultural Legacy, and Transitions
Fashion, and the growth of fashion, are presented as the manifestation of a process of civilization, within a capitalist culture (capital understood as material possessions) that has become global and imperialist, of which - in an economic sense - the industry (or the fashion system?) functions as one of its main instruments of exploitation. And with respect to design, Arturo Escobar said:
"Can design detach itself from its roots in modernist practices of unsustainability and defuturization and reorient itself towards other commitments, practices, narratives and ontological enactions? Moreover, can design be part of the toolkit for the transition to the pluriverze (i.e. a world in which many worlds can fit)?"
This book presents the importance of cultural sustainability in the textiles and fashion industry, decolonizing fashion system and promotes the design for transitions.Unterstütze den lokalen Buchhandel
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| Veröffentlichung: | 10.05.2023 |
| Seiten | 313 |
| Art des Mediums | E-Book [Kindle] |
| Reihe | Sustainable Textiles: Production, Processing, Manufacturing & Chemistry |
| ISBN-13 | 978-9-819-90349-8 |
| ISBN-10 | 9819903491 |
Über den Autor
Miguel Angel Gardetti (Ph.D.), founded the Centre for Study of Sustainable Luxury, first initiative of its kind in the world with an academic/research profile. He is also Founder and Director of the “Award for Sustainable Luxury in America Latina”. For his contributions in this field, he was granted the “Sustainable Leadership Award (academic category),” in February, 2015 in Mumbai (India). He is Active Member of the Global Compact in Argentina –which is a United Nations initiative-, and was Member of its governance body –the Board of The Global Compact, Argentine Chapter - for two terms. He was also part of the task force that developed the “Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations Global Compact. This task force was made up of over 55 renowned academics worldwide pertaining to top Business Schools.
Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu currently works for SgT Group as Head of Sustainability, and is based out of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and more than a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters, and authored/edited over 100's of books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.
