{"product_id":"9781350092457","title":"Designing Fashion's Future : Present Practice and Tactics for Sustainable Change","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eDesigning Fashion's Future\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Alice Payne\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow do fashion designers design? How does design function within the industry? How can design practices open up sustainable pathways for fashion's future? \u003ci\u003eDesigning Fashion's Future\u003c\/i\u003e responds to these questions to offer a fresh understanding of design practices within the sprawling, shifting fashion system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFashion 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 fashion's material and symbolic worlds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesigning Fashion's Future\u003c\/i\u003e draws on more than 50 interviews with industry professionals based in Australia, Asia, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. These diverse perspectives from multinational retailers, independent and experimental contexts ground the discussion in contemporary industry practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Clear-sighted, rich and enlightening: this is a book for our times of change.” —\u003ci\u003eProfessor Kate Fletcher, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Starting with the question, “can fashion ever be truly sustainable?”, Payne offers a thought-provoking, engaging, and comprehensive examination of today's fashion systems, sub-systems, and networks and the tactics and practices necessary for system changes. A must-read for all who aspire to \u003ci\u003efashion themselves and others\u003c\/i\u003e for a sustainable future.” —\u003ci\u003eLeslie Davis Burns, Oregon State University, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dr Alice Payne expands the discourse in fashion and sustainability by articulating exciting concepts such as taming and rewilding fashion. The book takes on the critical task of redefining fashion and fashion design to better empower us to face the challenges in the global fashion system today.” —\u003ci\u003eDr Timo Rissanen, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDesigning Fashion's Future\u003c\/i\u003e is a must to read for all interested in the future of fashion. A comprehensive fashion system is laid out to help us think about the challenges ahead.  Fashion must be navigated, disrupted, and modified within the larger world system to evolve into a more sustainable model.” —\u003ci\u003eMarilyn DeLong, University of Minnesota, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350092457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40799251431630,"sku":"9781350092457","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_1cc75070-b0f0-4adc-bda9-d4fec8ddc3cb.jpg?v=1642490298","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350092457","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}