ABSTRACT
The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women’s independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation of natural systems, with the associated environmental footprint of clothing high in comparison with other products.
Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion recognizes the complexity of aligning fashion with sustainability. It explores fashion and sustainability at the levels of products, processes, and paradigms and takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to critically question and suggest creative responses to issues of:
• Fashion in a post-growth society
• Fashion, diversity and equity
• Fashion, fluidity and balance across natural, social and economic systems
This handbook is a unique resource for a wide range of scholars and students in the social sciences, arts and humanities interested in sustainability and fashion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|39 pages
Framing and expanding sustainability and fashion
part II|94 pages
Sustainability and fashion as seen from other places and disciplines
chapter 6|10 pages
Economic Growth and the Shape of Sustainable Fashion
chapter 11|10 pages
Spirituality and Ethics
chapter 14|8 pages
The World in a Wardrobe
part III|74 pages
Perspectives on refining fashion from within
chapter 19|10 pages
The New Synthetics
part IV|78 pages
Visions of sustainability from within the fashion space