Durability, Fashion, Sustainability: The Processes and Practices of Use
@article{Fletcher2012DurabilityFS, title={Durability, Fashion, Sustainability: The Processes and Practices of Use}, author={K. Fletcher}, journal={Fashion Practice}, year={2012}, volume={4}, pages={221 - 238} }
Abstract Longer-lasting materials and products are often promoted as a strategy to increase resourcefulness and sustainability across product groups including fashion. Yet these gains depend on changed user behavior and consumption patterns, which in fashion in particular are influenced by social and experiential dimensions, not just material products. Obsolescence of fashion products, driven by aesthetic change and tied to changing social preferences underscores the psycho-social nature of… CONTINUE READING
69 Citations
Fashioning Green Words and Eco Language: An Examination of the User Perception Gap for Fashion Brands Promoting Sustainable Practices
- Engineering
- 2017
- 4
FashionDesign and Laundry Practices: Practice-Orientated Approaches to Design for Sustainability
- Sociology
- 2016
- 2
- Highly Influenced
- PDF
Do-fix: creating deeper relationships between users and products through visible repair
- Engineering
- 2017
- PDF
Empathic Fashion Product-Service Systems for Sustainable Development: Opportunity or Utopia?
- Sociology
- 2014
- Highly Influenced
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 28 REFERENCES