Eco-Friendly and Fair - Fast Fashion and Consumer Behaviour (Hardcover)

The make-take-waste paradigm of fast fashion explains much of the producer and consumer behavior patterns towards fast fashion. The evolution from a two-season fashion calendar to fast fashion, characterized by rapid product cycles from retailers and impulse buying by consumers, presents new challenges to the environment, workplace and labour practices. This book provides a comprehensive overview of new insights into consumer behaviour mechanisms in order to shift practices toward sustainable fashion and to minimize the negative impacts of fast fashion on the environment and society. Concepts and techniques are presented that could overcome the formidable economic drivers of fast fashion and lead toward a future of sustainable fashion. While the need for change in the fashion industry post-Rana Plaza could not be more obvious, alternative and more sustainable consumption models have been under-investigated. The paucity of such research extends to highly consumptive consumer behaviours regarding fast fashion (i.e. impulse buying and throwaways) and the related impediments these behaviours pose for sustainable fashion. Written by leading researchers in the field of sustainable fashion and supported by the Textile Institute, this book evaluates fashion trends, what factors have led to new trends and how the factors supporting fast fashion differ from those of the past. It explores the economic drivers of fast fashion and what social, environmental and political factors should be maintained, and business approaches adopted, in order for fast fashion to be a sustainable model. In particular, it provides consumer behaviour concepts that can be utilized at the retail level to support sustainable fashion.

General

Imprint:	Greenleaf Publishing
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Textile Institute Series: Responsibility and Sustainability
Release date:	May 2018
First published:	2018
Editors:	Carolin Becker-Leifhold • Mark Heuer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-78353-820-1
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business negotiation Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Sales & marketing > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Service industries > Fashion & beauty industries > General
LSN:	1-78353-820-1
Barcode:	9781783538201

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