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For centuries, the craze industry has struggled to reconcile style with sustainability. In Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion, you’re going to be transported back in time to find the historical dimensions of lately’s sustainable fashion movement. An array of success stories and cautionary tales provide both inspiration and warnings for the eco-conscious designer, encouraging an innovative approach that builds on predecessors’ discoveries to transport the practice of fashion forward.
The 1st edition, Sustainable Fashion: Past, Present and Future, emerged from the Museum at FIT’s groundbreaking exhibition ‘Eco-Fashion: Going Green’. This revised edition broadens perspectives even further, incorporating eye-opening examples of designers, brands and activists working for change internationally lately. Likewise, a new chapter examines the globalized mainstream fashion system and historical alternatives that offer compelling inspiration for reimagining the established order.
Fascinating and timely, Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion examines progressive fashion through a historical lens, encouraging readers to query the state of the industry and demonstrating the price of historical insights in enabling and inspiring change.
