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Journal of Vocational Education Studies

This paper will look into the agenda of the United Nations (UN) for the planned global, social and environmental progression in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially goals on the quality of education and responsible consumption and production. The combination of these two goals touched on quality education in the field of fashion and also fostered a responsible attitude among producers and consumers. Hence, educators, designers and manufacturers need to ensure the process and production of eco-friendly products do not harm consumers and nature while reducing the amount of waste. Responsibilities of the manufacturers are in terms of producing and adopting sustainable methods in production of textile and clothing products. Furthermore, consumer attitudes and behaviors are also very influential in utilizing of textile products considering the environmental sustainability aspects. In this study, critical review of relevant literature will be conducted. In the context of educa...

IJMRAP, 2022

Fashion industry is considered as one of the largest contributors of pollution in the world. The continuous degrading condition of environment has led to a clarion call to adopt sustainable methods not just at every stage of the manufacturing process but also for the afterlife of the garments when it reaches the customers. this paper attempts to explain the need to focus on the simple yet important ways that can be taken by people to safeguard the depleting natural resources. As the fact that cannot be ignored that both the companies and the consumers equally bear the responsibility to pave the way towards sustainable fashion.

2014

The paper presents the concept of the fast fasion and how these lead to an excessive consumption of clothes and as result a growth of the worn products market. The paper also aims to establish how fast fashion is influenting not only the economy also the environment. The fast fashion model can also damage developing economies with a low household income, which are not the necessary most important markets of these companies. Our study has identified the influences in increased purchase behavior and focused esspecialy of the positive relationship between income and clothing expenses. We found out that it is a large gap between the European countries regarding clothing expenses in year and Romania is for far the lowest consumer. It is presented the second hand clothes import-export trade during 2007-2012 and we found out that there is an inverse relation between the balances sheet of import-export of textile products between the developed and developing countries. The authors conclude ...

Sustainable Fashion: An Ethical Future Ahead?, 2019

Fashion is one of the most polluting industries and one of the most influential one. Currently, total greenhouse gas emissions from textiles production, at 1.2 billion tonnes annually, are more than those of all international flights and maritime shipping combined, that’s really alarming. By some estimates, emissions in this sector is expected to rise by more than 60% by 2030. In 2015 two large agreements realized the way to where we have to go, what direction to take and what we need to do to live in a more sustainable planet, this is how the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement on climate change adopted. But when we talk about the SDGs and fashion we also refer to the human and labour exploitation of textile production, because sustainability must be analyzed around its three dimensions, i,e. social, economic and environmental. We can meet our needs without accumulating things and buying what we don’t need, without compromising with resources and possibilities for future generations. We have innovative ideas and this is our opportunity to take care of our planet because there is no planet B.

2017

At a first glance, for the clothing consumer, fashion is, by definition, a term contradicting sustainability, being based on cyclical changes of aesthetics. The accountability to which today’s product design specialist is bound, in order to provide sustainable products, while observing ethical and technological rigor concerning environmental protection, can be transferred, through the product, to the consumer who becomes responsible, in his turn, for consumption of the product and all other post-consumption actions. This accountability has changed the lifestyle of consumers, which has led, in turn, to the emergence of ecological requirements relating to products in general and to fashion in particular. Thus eco-fashion emerged, an antithetical concept to fast-fashion, a specific concept of consumerist economy. Fast actions bring innovation and quick feedback, while slower ones provide stability, promoting holistic thinking and causal chains of responsibility; a combination of the tw...

Autex Research Journal

Fashion is a widespread cultural phenomenon which supports cultural attitudes and proposes new ways of acting. This study considers how ecological goals can be applied in the fashion industry through an awareness of its effects on the environment with the aim of conducting the process of designing and manufacturing fashion garments. To understand this needs practically, this study investigates on few industries in Hatyai municipality (Thailand) for knowing their practice on eco-fashion approach to support MSW management properly. The study adopts as its methodology a systematic review of relevant literature covering the twin problems of the degradation of the environment and the shortage of natural resources currently caused by the fashion-garment industry, in search of feasible solutions centred on the concept of eco-fashion. The study also addresses how the concept of ecological clothing can generate a new mentality among consumers. The study identifies concepts, techniques and pr...

Sustainable fashion is a concept that includes sustainable development and fashion together. Until now, these two concepts together were an oxymoron. However, today, for fashion companies, this dual combination symbolizes a crucial promise for the future. In recent years, affordable and trend-sensitive fashion have been detected as highly profitable but this situation has raised discussion on ethical issues in fashion industry. Generally, the fashion industry strives for competitive advantage through product innovation. Accordingly, the fashion industry has been criticised for exploiting human rights, animal welfare, textile pollution from production and waste, use of non-renewable resources and over packaging. For these reasons, a fashion manufacturer would consider not only aesthetical, creative and trendy fashion designs but also cleaner production processes, logistics, recycling process and corporate social responsibilities or in other words, basically generate eco-concepts for all products and processes in fashion industry. In this context, eco-concepts has been utilised as a medium to distinguish environmental-friendly products and processes from others as a sustainable competitive advantage in the fashion market. This research uses a case study on an eco-friendly company from Turkey to demonstrate the significance of eco-concepts in supply chain management in fashion industry. On the basis of literature synthesis of eco-perspectives, the research provides a discussion platform on the case study.

Fast fashion, inexpensive and widely available of-the-moment garments, has changed the way people buy and dispose of clothing. By selling large quantities of clothing at cheap prices, fast fashion has emerged as a dominant business model, causing garment consumption to skyrocket. While this transition is sometimes heralded as the "democratization" of fashion in which the latest styles are available to all classes of consumers, the human and environmental health risks associated with inexpensive clothing are hidden throughout the lifecycle of each garment. From the growth of water-intensive cotton, to the release of untreated dyes into local water sources, to worker's low wages and poor working conditions; the environmental and social costs involved in textile manufacturing are widespread. In this paper, we posit that negative externalities at each step of the fast fashion supply chain have created a global environmental justice dilemma. While fast fashion offers consumers an opportunity to buy more clothes for less, those who work in or live near textile manufacturing facilities bear a disproportionate burden of environmental health hazards. Furthermore, increased consumption patterns have also created millions of tons of textile waste in landfills and unregulated settings. This is particularly applicable to low and middle-income countries (LMICs) as much of this waste ends up in secondhand clothing markets. These LMICs often lack the supports and resources necessary to develop and enforce environmental and occupational safeguards to protect human health. We discuss the role of industry, policymakers, consumers, and scientists in promoting sustainable production and ethical consumption in an equitable manner.

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, 2020

This Note is dedicated to my parents Stephanie Meyer and Allen Elia. I am grateful to Professor Trexler for inspiring the topic of this capstone paper. The first day of your ethics course you challenged me to look beyond the headline of H&M burning their products and to find a solution. Thank you for compelling me to second guess every source and to see what bias the author or establishment may have. I am eternally grateful for Professor Susan Scafidi for your unwavering support and mentorship. Thank you to Anton Baptiste and Elliot Fink for your encouragement and edits throughout the process.

NEW CONSUMER TRENDS IN SUSTAINABLE FASHION‚‚, 2022

Science paper under the name,NEW CONSUMER TRENDS IN SUSTAINABLE FASHION‚‚13th International Conference "Textile Science and Economy - TNP2022" from page 95 ISBN 978-86-7672-359-1