Fashion as Sustainability in Action: A Guide for Fostering Sustainable Prosperity in Micro and Small Fashion Businesses

This guide is a reference tool and a go-to-resource for those who are identifying, supporting, mentoring, showcasing, and investing in micro and small fashion businesses (fashion MSEs). It introduces ways to recognise designers whose practices do, or could, contribute to cultures, societies, and ecological and economic systems that are life- and livelihood-sustaining as well as creatively fulfilling.

The guide contains key tips, methods and practical examples for those who support fashion designers, to help them identify and promote businesses that can flourish and evidence long-term prosperity in and through fashion.

It draws on the findings of two-and-a-half years of research by researchers from different academic disciplines and professional backgrounds, who have investigated the distinction of micro and small fashion businesses and their sustainable practices.

Drawing on analysis of evidence from over 100 in-depth interviews with UK-based designers and people from a range of support organisations, it offers a verifiable account of sustainability in action and demonstrates new possibilities for the fashion sector in the UK. By this we mean fashion with earth and social equity front of mind.

See https://www.sustainable-fashion.com/fsp to gain access to the guide.

• https://www.sustainable-fashion.com/fsp