Sustainability and the Fashion Industry Can Fashion Save the World? Responsible Fashion Series

There is widespread rhetorical agreement that the fashion industry must get itself onto a more ethical and sustainable footing. What does this mean in practice, and how can this be achieved in different regions around the world?

This book brings together expert scholars and reflective practitioners via a network of dialogue and exchange to help drive forward an ethical and sustainable future for the fashion industry. With insights from fashion design, management, sociology, philosophy, education, heritage studies and policy, the book asks whether or not fashion can save the world.

Enriched with illuminating case interviews and the perspective of experts, this book will be of interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of sustainable business and the fashion industry, and provides a unique resource for readers seeking to understand more about the need for responsible fashion.

Chapter 1: Framing Regenerative Fashion. Chapter 2: Writing Sustainable Fashion Worlds. Chapter 3: Disrupting Fashion-as-Usual in the Southern Hemisphere. Chapter 4: Provenance and Production in Scotland’s Fashion Sector: Shifting Stories. Chapter 5: Designer Intent and Postmodern Fashion: A Postconservation Approach. Chapter 6: Overconsumption in the Global Fashion Industry: Desire, Power and Capitalism. Chapter 7: Holistic Sustainability in Fashion(?): The Case of Vogue Talents. Chapter 8: Educating Fashion for a Sustainable Future. Chapter 9: Sustainability and the Fast Fashion Business Model. Chapter 10: Sustainable Consumer Behaviour in Fashion: Enabling and Disabling Factors. Chapter 11: Sustainability and the Secondhand Business Model. Chapter 12: Pricing and Sustainable Fashion

Annick Schramme is Professor and Academic Director of the Master Cultural Management and the Master Responsible Fashion Management at the University of Antwerp/ Antwerp Management School, Belgium.

Nathalie Verboven is a Researcher and Teaching Assistant in Cultural Management and the Summer School on Responsible Fashion Management at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.