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As issues surrounding sustainability in the fashion industry continue to evolve, the conversation in this collection of essays from leading fashion academics and practitioners has been updated with current concepts and industry practices. Sustainable Fashion: What's Next? A Conversation about Issues, Practices and Possibilities, Second Edition examines the challenges that designers, product developers, and consumers confront as they create, wear, and recycle clothing and fashion. Organized into three sections and printed on FSC-certified paper, each section focuses on an in-depth exploration of sustainable opportunities that are identified as people, process and the environment. New to this edition - Enhanced focus on issues and practices of concern within design and product development processes - New sidebars, Ideas in Action, focus on an expansion of real world applications and include interviews, case studies and profiles of professionals -Best Practices at the end of each section feature new examples of contemporary industry practices including The Filippa K. Story, Sri Lanka: A Model of Sustainable Apparel Industry Initiatives, and Peg and Awl: To make things out of nothing - End-of-chapter discussion questions raise important issues and implications for future development - New chapters 4, 5, 10, 12 and 15 discuss topics such as social media, social responsibility, technology, cradle to cradle design and design challenges - Instructor's Guide available Sustainable Fashion STUDIO - Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips - Watch videos that bring chapter topics and concepts to life PLEASE NOTE: Purchasing or renting this ISBN does not include access to the STUDIO resources that accompany this text. To receive free access to the STUDIO content with new copies of this book, please refer to the book + STUDIO access card bundle ISBN 9781501395383. STUDIO Instant Access can also be purchased or rented separately on BloomsburyFashionCentral.com.

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Bottom line -- I urge everyone to read it - whether you are an educator, student, fashionista, or fashion industry professional - you'll be rewarded with engaging insights about all aspects of sustainable fashion...From the Foreward written by William McDonough to the last section on best practices in the fashion industry, this edited book provides a comprehensive overview of many of the current issues, challenges, practices, and possibilities around designing, producing, and retailing fashion merchandise the supports sustainable environments, communities, and companies. -- Leslie Burns, Responsible Global Fashion LLC This book, in its second edition, is a call to action for the fashion industry and all citizens who engage it-all of us who design, make, buy, wear and dispose of garments. Janet Hethorn and Connie Ulasewicz began this conversation and continue it today. They see the value of connecting how people live with issues of sustainability, global economics, and the realities of the fashion industry. Their compendium highlights key advances as well as barriers. It renders visible an essay of clues that we can all hope leads to a collective, realistic optimism for a positive future. It is an important, inspiring guidepost for fashion in practice. -- William McDonough, founder of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things The strength of the book is that it gives an overall view of the sustainable fashion chain, with great examples of practitioners. -- Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Jennifer Prendergast

This book, in its second edition, is a call to action for the fashion industry and all citizens who engage it-all of us who design, make, buy, wear and dispose of garments. Janet Hethorn and Connie Ulasewicz began this conversation and continue it today. They see the value of connecting how people live with issues of sustainability, global economics, and the realities of the fashion industry. Their compendium highlights key advances as well as barriers. It renders visible an essay of clues that we can all hope leads to a collective, realistic optimism for a positive future. It is an important, inspiring guidepost for fashion in practice. -- William McDonough, founder of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things The strength of the book is that it gives an overall view of the sustainable fashion chain, with great examples of practitioners. -- Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Jennifer Prendergast

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Janet Hethorn is Professor of Art and Design and Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts, Central Michigan University, US. Connie Ulasewicz is Professor at San Francisco State University, US. Foreword by William McDonough is founder of the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. Contributors Linda Welters, University of Rhode Island, US Suzanne Loker, Cornell University, US Domenica Peterson, Co-Founder, Global Action Through Fashion, US Susan B. Kaiser, University of California, Davis, US Paul Gill, Garment Industry Executive, US Timo Rissanen, Parsons The New School for Design, US Jana Hawley, University of Arizona, US Van Dyk Manasseh Lewis, Cornell University, US Annie McCourt, Textile & Apparel Associate, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, US Lewis Perkins, Senior VP, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovations Institute, US Gail Baugh, San Francisco State University, US Shona Barton Quinn, Sustainability Leader, Eileen Fisher, US Lucy Dunne, University of Minnesota, US Helene Day-Fraser, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, CAN Kerli Kant Hvass, Copenhagen Business School, EU

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