Fashion Futuring: intertwining speculative design, foresight and material culture towards sustainable futures

CC Garcia - Futures, 2023 - Elsevier
In a context driven by uncertainty, climate crisis, and erratic societal behaviors, proposing
fashion futures practices onto a more sustainable and less predictable basis is paramount …

Castoff from the West, pearls in Kantamanto? A critique of second‐hand clothes trade

LA Manieson, T Ferrero‐Regis - Journal of industrial ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
African countries are today the major importers of the lowest grade of second‐hand clothing
(SHC). With the opening of global markets and the intense circulation of fast fashion in the …

[HTML][HTML] Fundamental Challenges and Opportunities for Textile Circularity

K Thomas, H Durrani, J Brady, K Ludwig, M Yatvitskiy… - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
The negative environmental impacts of the current linear system of textile and apparel
production are well-documented and require urgent action. The sector lacks an effective …

Digital fashion revolutions: supply chain transparency, digitalization and the non-disclosure paradox

H Heim - Fashion Practice, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The emergence of digital technology as a 'cure-all'for sustainable practice has captured the
imagination of observers and entrepreneurs alike. Among these technologies, blockchain …

DIGITAL HESITANCY: Examining the organisational mindset required for the adoption of digitalised textile supply chain transparency

H Heim, C Chrimes, C Green - Blockchain technologies in the textile and …, 2022 - Springer
Fashion firms are increasingly digitalising their supply chains (Majeed and Rupasinghe in
Int J Suppl Chain Manag 6: 25–40, 2017]) in response to demands for more accurate and …

Material inventories and garment ontologies: advancing upcycling methods in fashion practice

R Bigolin, E Blomgren, A Lidström… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study seeks to advance upcycling methods in fashion practice with the specificity of
design methods that centre on revaluation and resignification of waste materials. The …

Soft Studio: Revaluing post-consumer textile waste through creative design practice

K Horton, P Street - Fashion Practice, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In Australia, the rate of clothing consumption and disposal is high and increasing rapidly.
New methods of approaching consumption and intervening in waste streams are needed to …

Fashionable altruism: the marketing of fashion-based social enterprise

J Hewitt, L Parker, G McQuilten, R Bigolin - Social Enterprise Journal, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to understand how fashion-based social enterprises (FSEs)
navigate the marketing communications of fashion products alongside those of their social …

Making sense of downstream labour risk in global value chains: The case of the Australian cotton industry

M Boersma, E Josserand, S Kaine… - Journal of Industrial …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
While the efforts by actors on the buyer-side of value chains–such as brands and retailers–to
address upstream labour abuses are well documented, there is a lack of research into how …

Re-Making Clothing, Re-Making Worlds: On Crip Fashion Hacking

B Barry, P Nesbitt, A De Villa, K McMullin, J Dumitra - Social Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article explores how Disabled people's fashion hacking practices re-make worlds by
expanding fashion design processes, fostering relationships, and welcoming-in desire for …