ABSTRACT
Dear reader and collaborator of fashion, it is an honour to share with you a body of work that celebrates fashion futures for sustainability.
This edited volume of contributions from over thirty scholars from around the world explores interconnections between sustainability and fashion, a web of relationships that are, at one and the same time, global and also domestic, personal and also industrial, a basic need and also a luxury, essential to the fashion sector and also challenging to its very nature. It does so by bringing together different experiences and perspectives of fashion: some emerging from within fashion itself, and others from the sustainability community. The chapters reflect a wide range of influences as varied as everyday actions, scholarly practice, technological innovation, direct experience, industrial knowledge and creative activity, many of which are different to what has gone before, and some of which are radical in the original sense of the word, that is forming the roots, back to the bare and essential aspects of ideas and practice of fashion found within a thriving – a sustainability – future.
