Designing Fashion's Future: Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change - Hardcover

Alice Payne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350092452 ISBN 13: 9781350092457

Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021

Synopsis

How do fashion designers design? How does design function within the industry? How can design practices open up sustainable pathways for fashions future? Designing Fashion's Future responds to these questions to offer a fresh understanding of design practices within the sprawling, shifting fashion system. Fashion design is typically viewed as the rarefied practice of elite professionals, or else as a single stage within the apparel value chain. Alice Payne shows how design needn't be reduced to a set of decisions by a designer or design team, but can instead be examined as a process, object, or agent that shapes fashions material and symbolic worlds. Designing Fashion's Future draws on more than 50 interviews with industry professionals based in Australia, Europe, Asia, and the United Kingdom, with case studies and examples from North America and China. These diverse perspectives from multinational retailers, independent and experimental contexts ground the discussion in contemporary industry practices.

About this title

About the Author

Alice Payne is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Her research interests include the fashion design process and the problem of design for sustainability within the fashion context. Alice is also an award-winning designer, investigating design for sustainability in fashion via practice-led research.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350092452
• ISBN 13: 9781350092457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216