Slow fashion and sustainability: the luxury impact

Karaosman, Hakan, Brun, Alessandro and Morales-Alonso, Gustavo 2016. Slow fashion and sustainability: the luxury impact. Vecchi, Alessandra and Buckley, Chitra, eds. Handbook of Research on Global Fashion Management and Merchandising, United Kingdom: IGI Global, pp. 468-480. (10.4018/978-1-5225-0110-7.ch019)

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Abstract

The fashion industry is contributing to today's sustainability challenge in a number of ways. Despite all the advantages of modernization, the pace of life is getting frantic and societal behaviour is in conflict with natural resources. Thus, an urgent need arises to ensure quality in production and improve social and environmental conditions. In this vein, slow fashion emerges as a revolutionary process, which is sensitive to the impact that production and distribution have on society and ecosystems. This chapter contributes an original discussion by exploring how luxury fashion could be valuable for long-term sustainability. While luxury fashion is growing fast, it is interesting to ask to what extent luxury fashion could have a positive impact on sustainability due to quality, heritage and artisan skills. This chapter looks deeply into (i) how luxury fashion could enhance sustainability through sustainable sourcing and local manufacturing, and (ii) how the slow fashion concept could be further endorsed through luxury.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Publisher:	IGI Global
ISBN:	9781522501107
Last Modified:	19 May 2023 15:10
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/155546

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