Drawing on her extensive fashion experience and expertise, Darke offers practical guidance on how we as consumers can make a difference in the industry's environmental impact. What to Wear and Why also celebrates those who are already doing so, from environmental activists to sustainable fashion pioneers, giving us examples of how fashion sustainability can work in the real world.
Read MoreThis book explores the craft of use, the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector.
Read MoreA sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled deep dive into how we've made what we wear, and how our garments have transformed our societies, our planet, and our lives.
Read MoreJournalist Lauren Bravo loves clothes more than anything, but she's called time on her affair with fast fashion in search of a slower, saner way of dressing. In this book, she'll help you do the same.Journalist Lauren Bravo loves clothes more than anything, but she's called time on her affair with fast fashion in search of a slower, saner way of dressing. In this book, she'll help you do the same.
Read MoreA jolting exposé that reveals the true cost of the toxic, largely unregulated chemicals found on most clothing today.
Read MoreIn this impassioned book, Siegle analyses the global epidemic of unsustainable fashion, taking stock of our economic health and moral accountabilities to expose the pitfalls of fast fashion. Refocusing the debate squarely back on the importance of basic consumer rights, Siegle reveals the truth behind cut price, bulk fashion and the importance of your purchasing decisions, advocating the case for a new sustainable design era where we are assured of value for ethically, morally and in real terms.
Read MoreJoin Orsola's care revolution and learn to make the clothes you love, last longer.
This book will equip you with a myriad of ways to mend, rewear and breathe new life into your wardrobe to achieve a more sustainable lifestyle.
Read MoreFibershed by Rebecca Burgess explores a revolutionary approach to fashion by advocating for regional and regenerative textile systems. Inspired by her year-long challenge to wear only locally sourced clothing, Burgess presents a vision for a more sustainable industry rooted in soil-to-soil practices. The book highlights the environmental and social benefits of bioregional fiber production, showcasing farmers, artisans, and innovators working to create a circular, climate-positive fashion system.
Read MoreEllen MacArthur Foundation
This book offers a creative lens through which to discover and develop new products and navigate radical transformation, while addressing many of the world’s most pressing challenges.
Insights from over 80 early circular design practitioners in fashion.
Read MoreClare Press
Crossing the globe, Clare Press meets passionate change-makers who believe in the power of the positive. From eco warriors and zero wasters to knitting nannas, introvert craftivists to intersectional feminists, they're all up for a revolution of sorts. Are you? Join Press as she tracks the formation of a new counterculture, united by a grand purpose: to rethink how we live today to build a more sustainable tomorrow.
Read MoreTHE GANNI PLAYBOOK A hands-on guide to building a more responsible business within today’s fashion landscape – written by GANNI co-founder Nicolaj Reffstrup with industry writer Brooke Roberts-Islam
Read MoreEmma Hakansson
Emma Hakansson.
A manifesto for a total ethics fashion system, this book is for those who work in fashion, who love fashion, who love the planet, or who simply get dressed each day.
Alec Leach
We know fashion is bad for the planet, so why are we still shopping? As a former fashion editor for streetwear publication Highsnobiety and the founder of sustainable fashion platform @future__dust, I feel like I'm in a good place to figure that out. I wrote this book to explain why we love to shop so much, how fashion keeps us hungry for more, and the tricks it plays to cover up its true impact on the planet.
Read MoreSafia Minney
Part guide and part manifesto, this book shares stories of our interconnectedness with the natural world and each other, divided into sections on Nature & Materials; People, Livelihoods & Crafts; and New Economy & Leadership. Fully illustrated throughout, it features interviews from best-practice designers and businesses around the world, as well as thought pieces from leading campaigners working in the fashion industry.
Read MoreMaxine Bedat
A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet
Read MoreAja Barber
In the 'learning' first half of the book, she will expose you to the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and the uncomfortable history of the textile industry; one which brokered slavery, racism and today's wealth inequality. In the second 'unlearning' half of the book, she will help you to understand the uncomfortable truth behind why you consume the way you do.
CONSUMED will teach you how to be a citizen not a consumer.
Read MoreClare Press
Wear Next, Fashioning the Future (Thames & Hudson) presents a crystal ball look into tomorrow's wardrobe, imagining 16 scenarios likely to shape our fashion futures, from conscious, fair, slow and upcycled to biointelligent and digital.
Read MoreLucianne Tonti
In this superbly written book, fashion insider Lucianne Tonti looks beyond sustainable fashion to a future remade by natural fibres. An exploratory dive into the art and industry of clothing and an ode to the possibilities in nature, Sundressed is an accessible, engaging and optimistic challenge to designers, farmers and business to think bigger.
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