Shaping Sustainable Fashion Changing the Way We Make and Use
Clothes Earthscan Ltd | ISBN 9781849712422 Paperback – 192 pages
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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. Based on the results of extensive research into
lifecycle approaches to sustainable fashion, the book is divided
into four sections: Source explores the motivations for the
selection of materials for fashion garments and suggests that
garments can be made from materials that also assist in the
management of textile waste; Make discusses the differing
approaches to the design and manufacture of sustainable fashion
garments that can also provide the opportunity for waste control
and minimization; Use exp