Other Fashion Systems

This is the first chapter in Part I – Framing and expanding fashion and sustainability.

Kate Fletcher was also co-editor for the Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion.

About the Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion:

The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally, contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, 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.

Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion 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 multidisciplinary approach to critically question and suggest creative responses to issues of: fashion in a post-growth society; fashion diversity and equity; fashion fluidity and balance across natural, social and economic systems.

(Source: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Handbook-of-Sustainability-and-Fashion/Fletcher-Tham/p/book/9780415828598)

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