Shaping Sustainable Fashion (eBook, ePUB)

Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes
Redaktion: Gwilt, Alison; Rissanen, Timo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136454455
• Artikelnr.: 38247999

Autorenporträt

Alison Gwilt is the Course Director for Fashion & Textile Design at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia and is a fashion design academic and researcher who has been exploring sustainable solutions and strategies for fashion and textile design through her practice-based research activities and PhD studies. She has more than 18 years experience in academia managing and lecturing in fashion and textiles design in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. Timo Rissanen is the Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. His fashion design practice is informed by inquisitive patternmaking and broad sustainability concerns.

Inhaltsangabe

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