Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Fashion Systems / Kate Fletcher Sustainability and Fashion / Joanne Entwistle Nature's systems / Louise St Pierre A Whole New Cloth : Politics and the Fashion System / John Thackara The Real Challenge of Sustainability / John Ehrenfeld Economic Growth and the Shape of Sustainable Fashion : contextualizing fashion sustainability in terms of consumer-led economic growth / Ann Thorpe Prospect, seed and activate : advancing design for sustainability in fashion / Jonathan Chapman, peed Carolyn Strauss African Second-hand Clothes : Mima-te and the Development of Sustainable Fashion / Amanda Ericsson and Andrew Brooks Fashion And Sustainability In The Context Of Gender / Mirjam Southwell Spirituality and Ethics : theopraxy in the future of sustainability within the supply chain / Sue Thomas Consumption studies : the force of the ordinary / Ingun Klepp and Kirsi Laitala Accidentally sustainable? : ethnographic approaches to clothing practices / Sophie Woodward The world in a wardrobe : expressing notions of care in the economy and everyday life / Joe Smith Establishing the History of Sustainability in Fashion / Sasha Wallinger Branding Sustainability, Business Models in Search of Clarity / Simonetta Carbonaro and David Goldsmith Towards fashion media for sustainability / Else Skjold The role of science and technology for sustainable fashion / Greg Peters, Hjalmar Granber, Susanne Sweet The New Synthetics : Could synthetic biology lead to sustainable textile manufacturing? / Carole Collet The fashion system through a lens of zero-waste fashion design / Timo Rissanen Fashion brands and workers' rights / Liz Parker Fashion as material / Lynda Grose Fashion Design / Dilys Williams Fashion and community / Lizzie Harrison Openness / Amy Twigger Holroyd Mending / Jonnet Middleton "A suit, of his own earning" : Fashion Supremacy and Sustainable Fashion Activism / Otto von Busch The futures of futures studies in fashion / Mathilda Tham.

"The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation of natural systems, with the associated environmental footprint of clothing high in comparison with other products. This comprehensive handbook recognizes the complexity of aligning fashion with sustainability. It explores fashion and sustainability at the levels of products, processes, and paradigms and takes a truly multi-disciplinary approach to critically question and suggest creative responses to issues of fashion in a post-growth society, fashion, diversity and equity and fashion, fluidity and balance across natural, social and economic systems"-- Provided by publisher.