Product Description

Sustainable Fashion and Textiles brings together for the first time information about lifecycle environmental impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation. It challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainable fashion and textiles and sets out a broader, more inter-connected and forward-looking picture, drawing on ideas of human needs, industrial ecology, speed and rhythms, and participatory actions, as well as knowledge of materials. The book not only adds to understanding, it also presents practical information for textile and fashion practitioners. Each chapter combines long- and short-term solutions that deal with making changes to industry as it exists today, whilst articulating a new vision for the sector based on sustainability principles. 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 are conceptual and far-reaching, concerned with altering the scale and nature of consumption, and addressing wide ranging issues including: fashion; human needs; localism; services; shared products; creative participation; fast and slow clothes. While each of these chapters are complete in and of themselves, 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45970 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Review
I'll probably be one of the first to buy it... We NEED this book. --Carole Collet, Central St Martins

Carole Collet, Central St Martins
I'll probably be one of the first to buy it... We NEED this book.

From the Publisher
Well-structured and beautifully presented in full colour.
Timely addition, offering groundbreaking research and design guidance that challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainable fashion and textiles and sets out a broader, more inter-connected and forward-looking picture

Customer Reviews

Fashion can and is being done differently!
I found this to be a truly inspiring book. It's an invaluable font of ideas that you can dip into regularly for reference. The initiatives it describes are an antidote to institutionalised ways of both producing and consuming fashion. It clearly sets out a variety of ways of thinking about sustainability in fashion and textiles but its real gift is how it enables us to think about loosening the stranglehold consumption has over fashion.

Outstanding book jam packed with eye-opening ideas
Wow! This book is brimming with industry-led knowledge and facts on sustainability fashion design and I urge anyone who is interested in fashion or textiles to read it. It will alter your perception of the way that we produce and consume fashion and helps build the foundations for a radical new perspective.

This book gives us an eye opening look into the world of fashion and textiles and presents great new sustainable options with potential influence far beyond the fashion and textiles industries. Every aspect of the industry, use and lifecycle of textiles is considered. It delivers exactly what you want from a book - it opens your mind and changes your perspective for evermore. It is written and presented in an accessible way that is easy to use and a pleasure to read. If you are (or want to be) in the fields of textiles, fashion or sustainability, you definitely need to get with the programme and read this book!

If you only buy one fashion book this year, make sure its this one
Hi we are Jenny and Ruthy and We are currently studying fashion design at University College Falmouth, we've been reading your "Sustainable fashion and textiles" book to eachother everyday, before and after college! Its absolutely AMASING, we've been waiting forever for a book like this-this is a book that every fashion designer MUST read.