Resources

Fashion Communication for Social Transformation

Books – Articles

  • De Castro, Orsola (2021), Loved Clothes Last: How the Joy of Rewearing and Repairing Your Clothes Can Be a Revolutionary Act, London: Penguin Random House. 
  • Dawood, Sarah, How Extinction Rebellion designed “angry but peaceful” protest graphics, Design week, 27th April 2019. https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/15-21-april-2019/how-extinction-rebellion-protest-graphics/ 
  • Downing, John D.H. (2018), The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism, London: Routledge.  
  • Fernandes, Solange, Honório, Isabela Dias, Cruchinho, Alexandra and Madeira, Maria José (2020), Fashion Revolution as Promoter of Social Innovation and Sustainability in Fashion. Leather and Footwear Journal 20(1), p. 51-58. 
  • Fletcher, Kate and Tham Mathilda (2019). Earth Logic Fashion Action Research Plan. London: The J J Charitable Trust.  
  • Fletcher, Kate and Tham, Mathilda (2015), Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion, Abingdon & New York: Routledge. 
  • Farrell, Clare, Green, Alison, Knights, Sam and Skeaping, William (2019), This is not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook, London: Penguin.  
  • Hooks, Bell (2001), All about Love: new visions, New York: Harper Books.  
  • Jiyoung Kim, Angella and Ko, Eunju (2010). “Impacts of luxury fashion brand's social media marketing on customer relationship and purchase intention.” Journal of Global Fashion Marketing. 1-3 (2010), 164-171.  
  • Mazzarella, Francesco, Storey, Helen, and Williams, Dilys (2019), Counter-narratives Towards Sustainability in Fashion – Scoping an Academic Discourse on Fashion Activism Through a Case Study on the Centre for Sustainable Fashion. The Design Journal, p. 821-833 
  • Mensitieri, Giulia. (2020), The Most Beautiful Job in the World. Lifting the Veil on the Fashion Industry, London: Bloomsbury. 
  • Sudha, M. and Sheena, K. Impact of Influencers in Consumer Decision Process: the Fashion Industry, SCMS Journal of Indian Management, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 3, p.14-30. 
  • Slone, Isabelle, The moral quandary of ‘slow fashion’ influencers. The New York Times, 8th February 2022. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/08/style/fashion-influencers-sustainability.html   
  • Wang, Connie (2018), “Is Wokeness in Fashion Just Another Illusion?” In Granata, Francesca, Fashion Criticism, p.219-222.  

 

Online Resources 

 

General Resources on Sustainable Fashion and Consumption

Books – Articles

  • Beckert, Sven (2014) Empire of cotton: a global history, New York: Alfred A. Knopf  
  • Brooks, Andrew (2015) Clothing Poverty: the hidden world of fast fashion and second-hand clothes, London: Bloomsbury. 
  • De Castro, Orsola (2021) Loved clothes last: How the joy of rewearing and repairing your clothes can be a revolutionary act, London: Penguin Life. 
  • Henninger, Claudia.E, Brydges, Taylor, Iran, Samira, Vladimirova, Katia (2021), “Collaborative Fashion consumption: A synthesis and Future research agenda”, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.319, 15 October 2021,128648. 
  • Hickel, Jason (2020). Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, London: Penguin Random House.  
  • Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth, and Katherine K. Wilkinson (2020), All We Can Save: Truth, courage, and solutions for the Climate Crisis, London: Penguin Random House.  
  • McDonough, William (2008) Cradle to cradle: remaking the Way we make things, New York: Holtzbrinck. 
  • Solnit, Rebecca, and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua (2023), Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, Chicago: Haymarket Books. 
  • Strähle, Jochen, Gräff, Chantal (2017), “The role of social media for a sustainable consumption”, Green Fashion Retail, October 2017, p.225-247.  

 

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