Craft of Use
Post-Growth Fashion
$96.00
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
8 April 2016
Summary
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 dive…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781138021013 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1138021016 |
| Author: | Kate Fletcher |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 8 April 2016 |
| Weight: | 560g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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Critics Review
“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
About The Author
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.
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