Fashion, Sustainability and Luxury: an interplay through design

A discourse in sustainability, applied through fashion in the context of luxury involves a lexicon with emotional and rational descriptors. Its premise concerns our ability to live well with each other in our only home, nature. The study of sustainability crosses scientific, art, design and humanities disciplines, whilst fashion, a discipline in its own right, also draws on diverse domains of study. Fashion represents a distinctive trait of being human, our ability to form individual expressions, make social connections and construct infrastructures in society in material and economic Luxury signifies that which is rare and exquisite. It is a subject of study relevant to a number of disciplines, as its explores a socially, environmentally, economically and culturally bound set of ideas and objects.