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Trends in Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology

No Kids, No Fashion, No Future – Notes on the Missing Piece in the Discussion on Sustainable Fashion

  • Open or Close Philip Warkander*

    Division of Fashion Science, Lund University, Sweden

    *Corresponding author: Philip Warkander, Division of Fashion Science, Lund University, Sweden

Submission: May 01, 2018; Published: May 11, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/TTEFT.2018.02.000539

ISSN: 2578-0271
Volume2 Issue3

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In regards to fields of research and education on fashion and textiles, the question of how to make the fashion industry more sustainable is the most pressing of all. As assistant professor in fashion studies at Lund University and member of the board of the Swedish research program Mistra Future Fashion, this is a topic that I have worked with regularly for a number of years [1]. Recently, however, I have begun to despair: the topic is so wide it seems near impossible to cover a discussion on both over-production and overconsumption at the same time.

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