Fast Fashion: Economics Meets Ecological Impact
"Sustainable Practices in Fast Fashion" in Operations Management in the Era of Fast Fashion by ISBN: 9789811911767Date: 2022-05-14Fast fashion provides consumers tremendous trendy clothes each season through quick response of the supply chain. Because of the short life cycle of fast fashion product, the pollution becomes more serious. In recent years, many fast fashion brands have tried more to make the brand image to be more environment friendly. In this chapter, we review research works related to sustainable fast fashion and real industry practices in different domains, such as sustainable fashion design, sustainable raw materials and production, sustainable brick and mortar store design, fast fashion sharing platforms, sustainable labels and packaging, sustainable marketing campaigns in fast fashion.
"The Sustainable Model: Designing Within a Sustainable Framework" in Models for Sustainable Framework in Luxury Fashion by 
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ISBN: 9789811082849Date: 2018-03-02Sustainability within the fashion industry is a matter of growing concern with the emergence and surge of the fast fashion system. The research literature is aimed at defining the current fashion scenario, understanding the roles of stakeholders involved and presenting significant existing models of sustainable design. This chapter proposes the need for a practical strategy towards a sustainable future by setting short-term and long-term goals.
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion--and the Future of Clothes by ISBN: 9780735224018Date: 2019-09-03An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a year and employs every sixth person on Earth. Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property--and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially, primarily out of view.
Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion by ISBN: 9781350160439Date: 2023-02-09For centuries, the fashion industry has struggled to reconcile style with sustainability. In Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion, you will be transported back in time to discover the historical dimensions of today's sustainable fashion movement. An array of success stories and cautionary tales provide both inspiration and warnings for the eco-conscious designer, encouraging an innovative approach that builds on predecessors' discoveries to move the practice of fashion forward.
Knock It Off!: A History of Design Piracy in the US Women's Ready-to-Wear Apparel Industry by ISBN: 9780896729667Date: 2016-05-05Knock It Off puts into perspective the conflicting interests that have always set fashion design apart from other creative works and continue to make the industry an endlessly perplexing and risky business.
Responsible Fashion Business in Practice by ISBN: 9781032259178Date: 2023-03-23This unique text offers a holistic, insightful and timely exploration of sustainable practices across the fashion industry. The book takes the reader logically through each part of the authors' new Responsible 9 Framework(TM), providing a clear perspective and examples for each component. The framework thoroughly explains the move away from a singular product commercial focus to a Conscious Item approach and Circular Services business mindset.
Sustainable Fashion by ISBN: 9780857851857Date: 2015-01-15Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century.
- Fashion Me Green / By Nathalie Aurora ListerDissertation--M.A.; American University of Paris, 2011.
- Green style: Discourses of sustainability among fashion industry professionals / By Melissa J. BegeyDissertation--M.A.; California State University, Long Beach, 2016.
- Human Right Violations in the Fashion Industry: A Comparative Country Analysis / By Sattarin, Jaleh JenniferDissertation--M.A.; American University of Paris, 2013.
- Rethinking fast: Understanding Fast Fashion and Slow Fashion Consumers / By Ng, TMDissertation--Ph.D.; University of Tasmania, 2019.
- The global environmental injustice of fast fashionBick, Rachel ; Halsey, Erika ; Ekenga, Christine C; England: BioMed Central Ltd
Environmental Health, 2018, Vol.17 (1), p.92-92, Article 1
We discuss the role of industry, policymakers, consumers, and scientists in promoting sustainable production and ethical consumption in an equitable manner. - Life cycle assessment of clothing libraries: can collaborative consumption reduce the environmental impact of fast fashion?Zamani, Bahareh ; Sandin, Gustav ; Peters, Greg M.; Elsevier Ltd
Journal of cleaner production, 2017, Vol.162, p.1368-1375
Fast fashion is a clothing supply chain model that is intended to respond quickly to the latest fashion trends by frequently updating the clothing products available in stores. The shift towards fast fashion leads to shorter practical service lives for garments. Collaborative consumption is an alternative way of doing business to the conventional model of ownership-based consumption, and one that can potentially reduce the environmental impacts of fashion by prolonging the practical service life of clothes. In this study, we used life cycle assessment to explore the environmental performance of clothing libraries, as one of the possible ways in which collaborative consumption can be implemented, and compared the advantages and disadvantages in relation to conventional business models. - The Value of Fast Fashion: Quick Response, Enhanced Design, and Strategic Consumer Behavior
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Cachon, Gérard P. ; Swinney, Robert; Hanover, MD: INFORMS
Management Science, 2011, Vol.57 (4), p.778-795
A fast fashion system combines quick response production capabilities with enhanced product design capabilities to both design "hot" products that capture the latest consumer trends and exploit minimal production lead times to match supply with uncertain demand. We develop a model of such a system and compare its performance to three alternative systems: quick-response-only systems, enhanced-design-only systems, and traditional systems (which lack both enhanced design and quick response capabilities).