Mainstream fashion system is experienced in an unsustainable cycle
with the global supply chain. It is an unsustainable system not
only because of its effects on the environment and ecology, but
also because of the unfair working conditions which put a social
distance between the employer and the employee. This structure,
which has greedy characteristics with its production and
consumption rates, due to its `fast' cycle on a global scale,
recreates a `throwaway' consumption culture every day which causes
a waste problem that cannot be solved by the linear production
model. Together with this, the non-transparent global supply chain
builds the modern slavery system in the third world countries by
applying hard labour conditions and violating human rights. Slow
fashion movement, which has emerged as an alternative to this
course, builds an ecological, sustainable and ethical sense of
fashion for design, production and consumption relations. Slow
fashion promises a hope for the search of a more humane and ethical
future, for the production of long-lasting, enduring, unique, and
eco-friendly goods that have been made with care for local values
and have respect for craftwork. Slow fashion promises these by also
making relationships between the designer, producer and consumer
transparent. This book consists of eleven chapters discussing the
following issues in the context and socio-politics of slowness: The
social justice system of fashion, the social and environmental
effects of supply chain, the probability of creating a cyclical
economic system rather than the linear cycle of production and
consumption, the creative waste management strategies, the role of
slowness in association of design and craft, the responsible
consumption understanding created by slowness as opposed to the
illusion of hedonic sense of consumption and happiness, our
emotional and sensual relationship with clothes, and the role of
education for the creation of a sustainable fashion system.
Contributing authors: Duygu Atalay, Otto von Busch, Hazel Clark,
Irem Yanpar Cosdan, Alex Exculapio, Erica de Greef, Alison Gwilt,
Alastair Fuad-Luke, Solen Kipoz, Sanem Odabasi, Alice Payne, Yuksel
Sahin, Nesrin Turkmen
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