Shaping the Future of Fashion A Research Companion

Part I: Innovation

Introduction

Bethan Alexander

1. The Pixelated Body: Critical Perspectives on Inclusion and Exclusion in Digital Fashion Innovation

Elizabeth Kealy-Morris and Kerri McBee-Black

2. Consumer Acceptance of an RFID-based Garment Lifecycle Maintenance Innovation

Bethan Alexander and Rosemary Varley

3. Reframing Digital Fashion: From I4.0 to I5.0 in Australia's Transition to a Circular Fashion Economy

Donna Sgro, Kate Sala, Zoe Mellick and Merrin Stacey Cameron

4. From Handle to Hardware: Translating Textile Behaviour into 3D Systems: Reconstructing Textile Properties in Virtual Garment Production

Sean-Henry Fitzsimons and Ella Sharp

Part II: Ecosystem

Introduction

Kelly Dearsley

5. Weaving for Reuse: Emerging Recycling Ecosystems for Design for Disassembly

Laetitia Forst, Luke Stevens, Lucy Haugh, Georgia Stevens and Alice Timmis

6. Empowered Stitching: Traces: Stories of Migration

Lucy Orta, Camilla Palestra and Caroline Stevenson

7. Crafting Identities: Imagining Futures Through Making and Co-Creation with Prisoners

Lorraine Gamman and Claire Swift

8. The Fashion Milieu: Becoming Together Through the Feeling Body in an Age of Social Media and Mobile Phone Technology

Kelly Dearsley

Part III: Education

Introduction

Yu-Lun Eve Lin

9. How to Change the World: Reflections on Social Justice and Interdisciplinarity in Fashion Education

Heidi Seetzen and Nathaniel Dafydd Beard

10. Exploring Sustainability Narratives Among Textile Design Students in India

Babita Bhandari

11. Re-imaging H'Mông Textiles, Integrating Cultural Heritage and Product Innovation in Fashion Education for Systemic Change

Lisa Farouk Shawgi and Daniel Caulfield-Sriklad

12. Creativity for Sustainability in the Context of Fashion Design Education

Gintare Jankuniene and Jekaterina Rogaten

13. Zooming In and Zooming Out: An Object-Based Learning Approach to Exploring Garment Construction.

Susanne Baldwin

14. Reworlding Fashion: Insights from a Speculative Curriculum

Alexa Pollmann, Julia Crew, Katelyn Toth-Fejel and Sitraka Rakotoniaina

Part IV: Values

Introduction

Flavia Loscialpo

15. Reimagining Fashion Histories: Enacting Decolonial Commitments in Institutional Spaces

Christin Yu and Elizabeth Kutesko

16. Conversations on Craft, Circularity and Colonial Hangovers

Bhaavya Goenka and Dinie van den Heuvel

17. Values-led Designer-Artisan Collaborations as Pathways Towards Cultural Reconciliation in Fashion

Francesco Mazzarella

18. Ethical Threads: Rethinking NHS Workwear Through the Values of Care

Lewis Urquhart, Niki Taylor, Paul Rodgers, Lucy Welsh, Euan Winton and Sophia Murden

Biography

Bethan Alexander is Reader in Fashion Retailing and Marketing and Research Lead at the Fashion Business School, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK.

Yu-Lun Eve Lin is Senior Lecturer, researcher, and multi-disciplinary practitioner based at London College of Fashion, UK.

Flavia Loscialpo is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Cultural and Historical Studies at UAL, UK.

Kelly Dearsley is Associate Dean of the School of Media and Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.

"Shaping the Future of Fashion is a globally informed, interdisciplinary volume that brings together leading academics and practitioners to critically examine how fashion futures are being shaped across innovation, ecosystems, education and values. Featuring 18 original chapters, this collection reflects the depth, ambition and global reach of London College of Fashion. It is an essential and timely resource for fashion researchers, educators, practitioners and students committed to shaping a more responsible fashion system."

Professor Karen Stanton, Vice Chancellor, University of the Arts, London, UK.

"This important book explores fashion’s evolving boundaries, integrating technological perspectives and geopolitical shifts and it examines fashion’s wicked problems, equity, justice, and sustainability underpinned by rigorous research. Bringing academic and practical insights together, it offers a multidisciplinary understanding of how fashion adapts to global change while confronting its most urgent systemic challenges."

Professor Liz Barnes, Head of Manchester Fashion Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

"A timely volume that helps us envision the future of fashion more clearly through innovation, ecosystems, education, and values."

Dai Fujiwara, designer, Japan.