Modelling a ‘Fashion Design for Sustainability’ approach

The book FASHIONING SOCIAL & CULTURAL INNOVATION, Design empowering communities to foster sustainability in culture intensive industries, presents a collection of essays organized into three thematic sections. Its aim is to present the ways in which research in sustainable fashion design is pursuing different approaches and visions of a sustainability paradigm, to foster the system’s integrity and stability through a constant commitment to support culture, people and local communities. The Chapter ‘Modeling a “Fashion Design for Sustainability” approach’ discusses the interpretative model that has emerged from this research in order to identify emerging design-driven trajectories in the inspiration and promotion of new perspectives in the field of sustainability for the fashion industry as a system in terms of values, knowledge and capabilitie