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Sustainable fashion : past, present, and future
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"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 mov...
"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 and explore the historical 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 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 labour 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"--
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- Creator
- Jennifer Farley Gordon and Colleen Hill
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- Books
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- English
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- London : Bloomsbury, 2015
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- xx, 237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 1322115257, 0857851853, 0857851845, 9780857851864, 1350160458, 0857851861, 135016044X, 9780857851857, 9780857851840
- OCLC
- ocn860754344
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
- Repurposed and recycled clothing and textiles : Secondhand clothing: a brief history ; Repurposed clothing ; Recycled textiles ; At a glance: Vintage clothing ; At a glance: Make do and mend -- Quality of craftsmanship : The eighteenth century ; The nineteenth century ; The twentieth century ; Contemporary fashion ; At a glance: Fast fashion -- Material origins : Natural fibers ; Manmade fibers ; Synthetic fibers ; At a glance: 'Futuristic' materials of the past -- Textile dyeing : Synthetic dyes ; Poisoning people ; Poisoning the environment ; Past meets present in the search for solutions ; At a glance: Lowering the impact of dyeing processes ; At a glance: Indigo ; At a glance: Greenpeace -- Labor practices : Textile mills ; Garment factories ; Unionization ; History repeating: the resurgence of sweatshops, subcontracting, and the "runaway shop" ; Awareness and action: combating poor labor practices ; At a glance: Madeleine Vionnet, Elizabeth Hawes, and Max Meyer: historical perspectives on labor practices ; At a glance: Labels: advocacy and awareness -- Treatment of animals : Nineteenth-century feather debate ; Fur in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; Fur trapping ; Fur farming ; Rise of the anti-fur movement ; Sustainable alternatives ; At a glance: tortoiseshell, ivory, and reptile skins ; At a glance: Faux furs -- Conclusion