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Fashionopolis : the price of fast fashion and the future of clothes / Dana Thomas.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 356 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781789546088 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.47687 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9940.A2
Summary: 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 labour, the environment, and intellectual property - and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalisation, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially - and primarily out of view. We are in dire need of an entirely new human-scale model. Journalist Dana Thomas has travelled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future by reclaiming traditional craft and launching cutting-edge sustainable technologies to produce better fashion.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 338.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Checked out 27/12/2023 R17609K0499

Originally published: 2019.

Illustrations and text on inside cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 labour, the environment, and intellectual property - and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalisation, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially - and primarily out of view. We are in dire need of an entirely new human-scale model. Journalist Dana Thomas has travelled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future by reclaiming traditional craft and launching cutting-edge sustainable technologies to produce better fashion.

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