1. Abstract
What is Sustainable Fashion?
Are YOU well dressed?
Who is the "Green Consumer"?
What is the "Green Consumer" buying or likely to buy?
Where does the "Green Consumer" live?
And what does all this mean to the Textile Processing and
Garment Confection Industries?
This article seeks to explore these questions.
2. Full Article
2.1 What is Sustainable Fashion?
Lets take our lead from the researchers at Cambridge University (England).
The Sustainable Manufacturing Group is part of the Institute
for Manufacturing at Cambridge University.
Its Goal is to:
"Develop technologies to transform materials without
emission of greenhouse gases, the use of non-renewable materials or generation
of waste".
2.2. Are YOU Well Dressed?
A report from Cambridge University outlines the options for
an environmentally sustainable fashion industry.
This new study sets out a vision of a
sustainable clothes industry.
It asks the basic questions:
- How can consumers satisfy their
needs for textiles and clothing with significantly reduced environmental
impact, and at the same time offer new opportunities to Manufacturers and
Retailers?
- What could be done differently
to make the industry more sustainable?
The recommendations include:
- The use of more Organic Cotton
- Washing clothes at lower temperatures.
Dr. Julian Allwood from the Institute for
manufacturing has said:
- The aim is to help answer the
question of what should be done to create significant changes.
- What might happen if we could
make major structural changes to the way our clothes are made and used?
