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Shaping Sustainable Fashion - Alison Gwilt (Editor); Timo Rissanen (Editor)

Sustainable Fashion and Textiles - Kate Fletcher

Naked Fashion - Safia Minney; Livia Firth (Foreword by); Lucy Siegle (Foreword by)

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News

From Ecotextile News website

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Suggested books

Eco Fashion - Brown, Sass

Call Number: 746.92 B879

This book shows the range of companies making a difference in the area of sustainable design in fashion, exploding the myth that sustainable design is bad design, or at best basic design, by highlighting the range of accessories with a conscience.

Beyond Green - Brand, Jan

Call Number: 746.92 B573

Design activism : beautiful strangeness for a sustainable world - Fuad-Luke, Alastair

Call Number: 745.4 F9499

Design futuring : sustainability, ethics, and new practice - Fry, Tony

Call Number: 745.2 F947

Ethics in the fashion industry - Paulins, V. Ann

Call Number: 338.47687 P328

Fashion and Sustainability - Kate Fletcher; Lynda Grose; Paul Hawken (Foreword by)

Call Number: 746.92 F613 Swanston, Brunswick

Naked Fashion - Safia Minney; Livia Firth (Foreword by); Lucy Siegle (Foreword by)

Social responsibility in the global apparel industry

Call Number: 391 D554

Prosperity without growth : economics for a finite planet - Jackson, Tim

Call Number: 338.9 J124

Shaping sustainable fashion : changing the way we make and use clothes - Gwilt, Alison

Call Number: 746.92 S529

To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing out the World?

Call Number: 391 S571 Carlton, Brunswick & Swanston soon

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Green Wiki

What is Sustainable Fashion?

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V&A Resources

The Victoria & Albert Museum website provides a wealth of information on Ethical Fashion including interviews, reading lists and online videos.

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FashionFutures 2025

The Report Fashion Futures 2025 : global scenarios for a sustainable fashion industry by Forum for the Future & Levi Strauss & Co, provides 5 lessons for the fashion industry to follow which can "help companies develop responses to key social and environmental challenges". The animations below represent 4 scenarios for the fashion industry in 2025.

Scenario Slow is Beautiful
Scenario: Community Couture
Scenario: Techno-Chic
Scenario: Patchwork Planet

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Gorman Report

Travelling textiles : a sustainability roadmap of natural fibre garments, Report prepared by Emer Diviney & Serena Lillywhite for the Brother of St Laurence Business Unit.

This report and case study focusses on two natural-fibre garments produced by the fashion label Gorman and the supply chains used. The report illustrates the complex nature of the supply chains through road-mapping diagrams.

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Videos

Principles of sustainable fashion design [YouTube video] Presented by Karen Webster, RMIT University, 2011.

Can Wal-Mart be Sustainable? Ask Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard [video] by Tom Foster, 11th June, 2009

RMIT Fashion (City) students working on Recreate 08 - recycling with the Salvation Army. Click on the link below and login with your NDS login details to view this video:

Charities Recycle Tips from Big Business: Reporter Lisa Whitehead investigates the growing second-hand clothing market, all spurred on as a result of the current "vintage" fashion trend. Stateline VIC (ABC TELEVISION Melbourne); Broadcast Date: Friday, 24th October 2008; Duration: 5 min., 15 sec.

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