Abstract
When addressing sustainability in fashion we can easily verify that there haven’t been many studies besides the confrontation between fast and slow fashion, or fashion and cultural industries, or economic aspects in fashion. Reflections on aspects used in the creation, development and coordination adopted in fashion design, especially when we aim to achieve a holistic point of view of the products’ several stages, to create a more sustainable fashion. In this paper, we focus on innovative sustainable strategies in fashion, such as the adoption of ethical concerns in nowadays fashion, the importance to respond to the principles for a circular fashion and to commonly attend the 4 R’s in the fashion industry: reduce, reuse, repair and resale. These are competitive and advantage key strategies for the success in fashion industry. A literature review bridging and intersecting the different research topics was carried out with the aim to stimulate reflection and bring new perspectives on the addressed object of study, which can stimulate the industry, the professionals but also the students in fashion design by showing that there are solutions to face the now a day’s challenges in fashion design and industry, balancing innovation and sustainability, like the use of the Sustainable Fashion Systemic and Integrated Model that resulted from the carried out research.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Azevedo P, Giuliano C (2014) Sustainability and conscious consumption from a fashion perspective. Convergências - Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes VII (14). http://convergencias.ipcb.pt. Accessed 21 Mar 2020
Brismar A (2017) Green strategy. https://www.greenstrategy.se/circular-fashion-definition/. Accessed 11 Mar 2020
Cernansky R (2019) How fashion brands are experimenting with resale. https://www.voguebusiness.com/consumers/how-fashion-brands-are-experimenting-with-resale. Accessed 20 Mar 2020
Compare Ethics. https://compareethics.com/what-is-ethical-fashion/. Accessed 17 Mar 2020
Ellen MacArthur Foundation. https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-economy/what-is-the-circular-economy. Accessed 11 Mar 2020
European Commission (2015) Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council (relating to waste). http://eur-lex.europa.eu. Accessed 20 Mar 2020
Fletcher K (2014) Sustainable fashion and textiles: design journeys, 2nd edn. Routledge, London
Hill M (2019) The Four R’s of Fashion: Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Resale. https://goodonyou.eco/the-four-rs-of-fashion/. Accessed 30 Mar 2020
Joy A, Peña C (2017) Sustainability and the fashion industry: conceptualizing nature and traceability. In: Henninger CE et al (eds) Sustainability in fashion: a cradle to upcycle approach. Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Kering (2016) Beyond our limits. Sustainability Targets 2012–2016. http://Kering.com. Accessed 20 Mar 2020
Lucas S (2015) Capulanar: towards an ethical approach to sustainable fashion design?. Convergências - Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes VIII(15). http://convergencias.ipcb.pt. Accessed on 21 March 2020
Moorhouse D, Moorhouse D (2017) Sustainable design: circular economy in fashion and textiles. Des J 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352713. Accessed 21 Mar 2020
Rissanen T, McQuillan H (2016) Zero waste fashion design. Bloomsbury, London
RSA (2016) The Great Recovery. http://greaterecovery.org.uk. Accessed 12 Mar 2020
Sbordone M, Ranzo P (2019) Fashion inspired model. Advanced organizational model and new knowledge-based goods. Convergências - Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes XII(23). http://convergencias.ipcb.pt. Accessed 21 Mar 2020
Shumpert T (2016) Closing the Loop - Rethinking Reuse for a Circular Economy. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/closing-the-loop–rethink_b_9920060. Accessed 26 Mar 2020
Vanesa Vinhas. https://www.vanesavinhas.com/. Accessed 12 Mar 2020
Victoria & Albert Museum. http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/w/what-is-ethical-fashion/. Accessed 29 Mar 2020
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Moreira da Silva, F. (2021). Sustainable Fashion is Ethical and Circular. In: Raposo, D., Neves, J., Silva, J., Correia Castilho, L., Dias, R. (eds) Advances in Design, Music and Arts. EIMAD 2020. Springer Series in Design and Innovation , vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55700-3_21
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55700-3_21
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-55699-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-55700-3
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)