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42 - Fashion and Global Sustainability

from Part VI - Fashion Systems and Globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2023

By
Lucy Norris
Edited by
Christopher Breward ,
Beverly Lemire  and
Giorgio Riello
Christopher Breward
Affiliation:
National Museums Scotland
Beverly Lemire
Affiliation:
University of Alberta
Giorgio Riello
Affiliation:
European University Institute, Florence
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Summary

How might we reimagine fashion as a regenerative force, one that can help to fundamentally reshape our relationships to each other, the environment, and the future of the world we share? If fashion is broken, can we fix it? Attitudes are shifting, but more radical systemic changes to the global fashion system are urgently needed. Fashion is a significant contributor to the impact we are having on the earth’s planetary boundaries. Fashion also fails to provide the social and economic foundations needed to support human flourishing to many of the 300 million workers in global garment supply chains. This crisis affects us all.

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The Cambridge Global History of Fashion
From the Nineteenth Century to the Present
 , pp. 1455 - 1488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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