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Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion
Kate Fletcher
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Description for Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion
Paperback. .
This book explores the `craft of use', the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector. Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainability in fashion that gives attention to tending and wearing garments, and favours their use as much as their creation. She offers a diversified view of fashion beyond the market and the market's purpose and reveals fashion provision ... Read more
This book explores the `craft of use', the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector. Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainability in fashion that gives attention to tending and wearing garments, and favours their use as much as their creation. She offers a diversified view of fashion beyond the market and the market's purpose and reveals fashion provision ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138021013
SKU
V9781138021013
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Kate Fletcher
For nearly two decades Kate Fletcher's work has shaped the field of fashion and sustainability, and come to define it. She works with fashion businesses, education, non-profits and government. She is Professor of Sustainability, Design, Fashion at the University of the Arts, London, UK. This is her fourth book.
Reviews for Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion
I love the idea of the `craft of use', where meaning and wellbeing can be seen to flow not so much from the buying as from the using of any garment. - Jonathon Porritt, Founder and Director, Forum for the Future