The fashion industry has developed into a complex global system with persistent social and
environmental sustainability challenges. Private, public, and civil society actors have …

The contemporary fashion industry is based on a set of 'gendered skills and
attributes.'Women numerically dominate fashion schools and the labour force of fashion …

Previous research illustrates several attempts that consumers have made to create new
markets when marketing organizations have not responded to their desires; however …

In this paper we discuss the pressing need for a just transition in one of our most
environmentally and socially problematic contemporary industries: the fashion and textiles …

Purpose This paper analyses the factors that make fashion-product crowdfunding
campaigns successful. The authors argue that crowdfunding is an innovative and functional …

In the past decade or so, discussion has increasingly addressed the need to rip apart the
idea of a single fashion history stemming from Europe and North America which opened up …

African fashion reveals intersections between upgrading, manufacturing and
internationalization alongside expanding cultural, political and social influence. Yet global …

The development of cultural districts has become a standard practice in policy-making
worldwide at different scales–local, regional and national (Braun and Lavanga 2007) …

Recent studies have demonstrated the value that the Internet and web applications bring to
businesses. Among other tools are those that enable the analysis and monitoring of …

In this chapter, drawing on Bourdieu's concept of the field, we examine the system of actors
that are involved in creating the aesthetics of fashion. We adopt a dynamic approach that …