Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes

ISBN-13: 9781849712415 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 192 str.

Alison Gwilt; Alison Gwilt; Timo Rissanen

Opis

This production, use and eventual disposal of most clothing is environmentally damaging, and many fashion and textile designers are becoming keen to employ more sustainable strategies in their work. This book provides a practical guide to the ways in which designers are creating fashion with less waste and greater durability.

Spis treści

Lists of Figures, Tables and Images.  Acknowledgements.  Foreword – The Environmental Trust, New South Wales Government.  Introduction from the Editors  Part 1: Source Introduction  1.1. Remediation: Discussing Fashion Textiles Sustainability  1.2. Case Study: Upcycling Materials for Fashion  1.3. Case Study: New Materials for Fashion  1.4. Sustainable Textiles – Nature or Nurture?  Part 2: Make  Introduction  2.1. Producing Sustainable Fashion: The Points for Positive Intervention by the Fashion Designer  2.2. Case Study: The Tailor's Craft  2.3. Case Study: The Perfect Solution  2.4. Zero-waste Garment Design: Strategies and Risk-taking for Design Practice  Part 3: Use  Introduction  3.1. Sustainable Clothing Care by Design  3.2. Case Study – Slowing Fashion  3.3. Case Study – Personalising Fashion  3.4. Designing Endurance  Part 4: Last  Introduction  4.1. Textile Recycling Options: Exploring What Could Be  4.2. Case Study: Reuse in the Fashion Cycle  4.3. Case Study: A New Future Fashion Industry  4.4. Post-growth Fashion and the Craft of Users.  Case Study Profiles.  Resources.  Editors' Biographies