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Sustainable Fashion Overview
- Fixing Fashion: Rethinking the Way We Make, Market and Buy Our Clothes by Michael Lavergne
- Designing Fashion's Future - Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change by Alice Payne
- The Dangers of Fashion - Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions by Sara B. Marcketti and Elena E. Karpova
- Ethics in the Fashion Industry by V. Ann Paulins and Julie L. Hillery
- A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion by Alison Gwilt
- The Circular Design Guide by Ellen MacArthur Foundation and IDEO
- What is Circular Fashion? by Common Objective
- Circularity Guide by Nike
- Guide to Sustainable Strategies by CFDA
- The Loop by Close the Loop
- Apparel Industry Sustainable Strategies Framework by NYU.STERN
- The Comprehensive Guide to Sustainability in Fashion by JUMPSTART
- Why Fashion Must Go Digital—End to End by BCG
- Digital Technology of Circular Fashion by Gabriel Farias Iribarren
- 3D Design Is on the Verge of Disrupting the Fashion Industry by Medium
- Innovation for a Positive Future: Celebrating a Decade of Cradle to Cradle Certified, 2010-2020 by Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute
- The New Transparency Report - Avery Dennison
Design for Low Waste
- From 15% to 0: Investigating the creation of fashion without the creation of fabric waste by Timo Rissanen
- Remake It- Clothes – The Essential Guide to Resourceful Fashion- With over 500 tricks, tips and inspirational designs by Henrietta Thompson
- The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability - Designing for Abundance by Michael Braungart and William Mcdonough
- Zero Waste Fashion Design 2nd edition by Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan
- Zero Waste by Robin Murray
- Fashion Thinking: Creative Approaches to the Design Process by Fiona Dieffenbacher
- Subtraction Cutting by Julian Roberts
- Trash to Trend, Using Upcycling in Fashion Design by Reet Aus
- Make Use by Holly McQuillan
- The North Face Remade Collection
- Why Every Fashion Brand Should Start Thinking About Zero-Waste Design by Ruth Macgilp
- A comparative review of zero-waste fashion design thinking and operational research on cutting and packing optimisation by Abu Sadat Muhammad Sayem, Pammi Sinha, Al-Hussein Albarbar and Tracy Mok
Design for Low-Impact Materials and Processes
- Sustainable Fashion – Past, Present and Future by Gordon K. Farley, Jennifer Farley, Colleen Hill
- Fashion Fibers: Designing for Sustainability by Annie Gullingsrud
- HIGG Index by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition
- Fibres and Fabrics by Common Objective
- Made From by Good On You
- Circular Materials Guidelines 1.0 by Fashion Positive
- Understanding Biomaterial Innovations Report by Fashion For Good
- Moral Fibre: The Cool Option for a Heating Planet by Environmental Justice Foundation
- From Food To Fashion: A Spotlight On Regenerative Agriculture by The Sustainable Angle
Design for Longevity
- You Know More Than You Think You Do: Design as a Resourcefulness and Self Reliance by Emily Campbell, Royal Society of the Arts
- Exploring demand reduction through design, durability and ‘usership’ of fashion clothes by Kate Fletcher
- Limited shelf-life? Why the fast fashion model is under strain by EOS
- The Avery Dennison Digital Deep Dive by Avery Dennison
- Clothing Alterations and Repairs: Maintaining a Sustainable Wardrobe by Chelsey Byrd Lewallen
Design for Recyclability
- Upcycling, Downcycling and Recycling Explained by Loopworks
- The Basics of Textile Recycling by The Balance Small Business
- Why Clothes Are So Hard To Recycle by BBC
- Unspun Jeans X Resortecs
- A Circular Future for Fashion?
- Why Recycling Won’t Solve Fashion’s Sustainability Problem
- Quick Question: Why Can’t We Just Recycle Our Old Clothes?
Keep up to date with the latest…
- Sublime Magazine China National Garment Association (Chinese only)
- Ecotextile News
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation
- Ethical Fashion Forum
- HKRITA
- Treehugger
- The Sustainable Fashion Collective
- The Sustainable Angle
- Common Objective
- C.L.A.S.S.
- Goodonyou
- Cotton Diaries
- Fabric Scraps
- Study New York
- Seamwork
- Reverse Resources
- Remake
- Textile Exchange
- Earth Logic
- Eco-age
- Green Is The New Black