Designing Fashion's Future: Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change
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Overview
How do fashion designers design? How does design function within the industry? How can design practices open up sustainable pathways for fashion’s future? Designing Fashion’s Future responds to these questions to offer a fresh understanding of design practices within the sprawling, shifting fashion system.
Fashion design is typically viewed as the rarefied practice of elite professionals, or else as a single stage within the apparel value chain. Alice Payne shows how design needn’t be reduced to a set of decisions by a designer or design team, but can instead be examined as a process, object, or agent that shapes fashion’s material and symbolic worlds.
Designing Fashion’s Future draws on more than 50 interviews with industry professionals based in Australia, Asia, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. These diverse perspectives from multinational retailers, independent and experimental contexts ground the discussion in contemporary industry practices.
50 in-depth interviews with international fashion practitioners explore the technical and creative processes of the fashion industry and their ethical and environmental implications.
50 rich interviews with industry insiders explore the gamut of approaches to designing fashion, from fast fashion product development to experimental practice.
Synthesizes ethical and sustainability imperatives to examine the spaces opening up for new forms of fashion design practice.
Examines fashion production through the lens of design studies.
1. Fashion Design Beyond the Designer
2. Fashion Systems Thinking
3. Designers, Named and Nameless
4. Fashion’s Designerly Narratives
5. Designing in Fast Fashion
6. Design for Sustainability as Strategies and Tactics
7. Weightless Fashion
8. Taming Fashion by Design
9. Rewilding Fashion by Design
10. Conclusion
Clear-sighted, rich and enlightening: this is a book for our times of change.
Starting with the question, “can fashion ever be truly sustainable?”, Payne offers a thought-provoking, engaging, and comprehensive examination of today’s fashion systems, sub-systems, and networks and the tactics and practices necessary for system changes. A must-read for all who aspire to fashion themselves and others for a sustainable future.
Dr Alice Payne expands the discourse in fashion and sustainability by articulating exciting concepts such as taming and rewilding fashion. The book takes on the critical task of redefining fashion and fashion design to better empower us to face the challenges in the global fashion system today.
Designing Fashion’s Future is a must to read for all interested in the future of fashion. A comprehensive fashion system is laid out to help us think about the challenges ahead. Fashion must be navigated, disrupted, and modified within the larger world system to evolve into a more sustainable model.
- Title: Designing Fashion's Future: Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change
- Author: A. Payne
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350092488, 9781350092464, 1350092460, 1350092487
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350092488
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:07:04Z