Book contents
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- Copyright page
- Contents for Volume II
- Figures for Volume II
- Maps for Volume II
- Table for Volume II
- Contributors for Volume II
- Preface
- Part IV Fashion, Modernism, and Modernity
- Part V Fashion, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism
- Part VI Fashion Systems and Globalization
- 35 Manufacturing Fashion in the Post-War Period
- 36 Producing and Predicting Fashion in Twentieth-Century America and Europe
- 37 The Origins and Development of Haute Couture, 1858 to Now
- 38 Couture, Prêt-à-Porter, and Fast Fashion since 1945
- 39 Casualwear and Its Birth in Japan
- 40 Fashion and Globalization
- 41 Streetscape, Shop Window, Museum Vitrine
- 42 Fashion and Global Sustainability
- Index
- References
42 - Fashion and Global Sustainability
from Part VI - Fashion Systems and Globalization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2023
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
- Copyright page
- Contents for Volume II
- Figures for Volume II
- Maps for Volume II
- Table for Volume II
- Contributors for Volume II
- Preface
- Part IV Fashion, Modernism, and Modernity
- Part V Fashion, Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism
- Part VI Fashion Systems and Globalization
- 35 Manufacturing Fashion in the Post-War Period
- 36 Producing and Predicting Fashion in Twentieth-Century America and Europe
- 37 The Origins and Development of Haute Couture, 1858 to Now
- 38 Couture, Prêt-à-Porter, and Fast Fashion since 1945
- 39 Casualwear and Its Birth in Japan
- 40 Fashion and Globalization
- 41 Streetscape, Shop Window, Museum Vitrine
- 42 Fashion and Global Sustainability
- Index
- References
Summary
How might we reimagine fashion as a regenerative force, one that can help to fundamentally reshape our relationships to each other, the environment, and the future of the world we share? If fashion is broken, can we fix it? Attitudes are shifting, but more radical systemic changes to the global fashion system are urgently needed. Fashion is a significant contributor to the impact we are having on the earth’s planetary boundaries. Fashion also fails to provide the social and economic foundations needed to support human flourishing to many of the 300 million workers in global garment supply chains. This crisis affects us all.
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- The Cambridge Global History of FashionFrom the Nineteenth Century to the Present, pp. 1455 - 1488Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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