LibGuides: Sustainability: Sustainable Fashion

eBooks

Circular Economy and Re-Commerce in the Fashion Industry

Sustainability and Social Change in Fashion

Supply Chain Management and Logistics in the Global Fashion Sector

Videos

Fast Fashion: The Real Price of Low Cost Fashion

More Resources

More Databases

Search the following library databases for articles, reports, eBooks, and videos on sustainable fashion. For other fashion resources, see the library's Fashion subject guide.

Berg Fashion Library
(Bloomsbury) Part of the Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform, fashion studies e-books, for faculty, students, and researchers of fashion, museum studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and more.

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Business of Fashion (BoF)
(Business of Fashion) BoF is an authoritative news and analysis portal of information for the global fashion industry covering not only trends in design and beauty, but also technology, sustainability, marketing, global markets, and entrepreneurship.

- Users must create a separate BoF profile to use this service, using a Seneca Polytechnic email address to set up the account.

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Ecotextile News
(MCL News & Media) Reporting on environmental aspects of the fashion industry and the global textile and clothing supply chain. Includes a back issue archive of the magazine, podcast discussions, and job postings.

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Fairchild Books Library
(Bloomsbury) Part of the Bloomsbury Fashion Central platform, fashion studies e-books, for faculty, students, and researchers of fashion, textile, design, and visual merchandising.

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WGSN Fashion Design
(Worth Global Style Network) A fashion and style forecasting service providing fashion trend information, market analysis, retail news, store window and other images, textiles and CAD design information, and trade and fashion show news.

- We only subscribe to the "Fashion Design" database/component of this vendor's product offerings.

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Women's Wear Daily (WWD) and Digital Daily
(Fairchild Fashion Media) Online news and business insights for the fashion, esthetics, and textile industries from a publication that began in 1910. Includes Digital Daily, a news resource released daily by WWD.

- Our subscription is for up to 10 simultaneous users only. Please close your browser to logout when you are finished.

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Websites

SDG Toolkit for Canadian Colleges and Institutes
A practical guide to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for post-secondary institutions
Considerate Design
EcoCult
EcoCult is a curious, thoughtful, science-based view into the international sustainable fashion industry.
Eco Fashion Talk
Ethical Clothing
Ethical Clothing was founded with a simple goal, to make ethical decisions easier when it comes to buying clothes and accessories.
Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action (UN Climate Change)
The Fashion Pact
The Fashion Pact is a global coalition of companies in the fashion and textile industry (ready-to-wear, sport, lifestyle and luxury) including their suppliers and distributors, all committed to a common core of key environmental goals in three areas: stopping global warming, restoring biodiversity and protecting the oceans. Launched as a mission given to Kering Chairman and CEO, François-Henri Pinault by French President, Emmanuel Macron, the Fashion Pact was presented to Heads of State at the G7 Summit in Biarritz.
Fashion Revolution
Fashion Revolution was founded in the wake of the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013. Since then, we have grown to become the world’s largest fashion activism movement, mobilising citizens, brands and policymakers through research, education and advocacy.
Inhabitat: Fashion
MISTRA Future Fashion Program
Sweden's MISTRA Future Fashion Program consists of eight projects designed to "generate new knowledge and recommendations that can be used by the Swedish fashion industry" to advance sustainable fashion. Watch videos, read updated and learn about the different research projects on this site.
Permacouture Institute
The Permacouture Institute is an educational non-profit "for regenerative design in fashion and textiles." Visitors to the site can access their blog and read about the Institute's projects including an interesting Fiber and Dye Walk map.
The SPIN OFF
Sustainable Apparel Coalition
"The Sustainable Apparel Coalition was founded by a group of sustainability leaders from global apparel and footwear companies together with leading environmental and social organizations who recognize that addressing our industry’s current social and environmental challenges are both a business imperative and an opportunity."
TED: Textiles Environment Design
TED, a project of Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, attempts to "look at the role that the designer can play in creating textiles that have a reduced impact on the environment and to provide a toolbox of designer-centered solutions." Follow the TED blog for conferences, events and articles of interest.
Victoria and Albert Museum, What is Ethical Fashion?
This museum page provides a brief definition of Ethical Fashion along with a list of several key issues. The site also includes links to interviews with several ethical fashion designers as well as a reading list.

Articles

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Reports

Sustainability Standards & Certifications in Fashion

Magazines

Podcasts

Conscious Chatter
An inclusive audio space, Conscious Chatter opens the door to conversations about our clothing + the layers of stories, meaning and potential impact connected to what we wear.
Ethical Fashion Initiative Podcast
Fashion Revolution Podcast
Style With Substance
Sustainably Influenced
The Wardrobe Crisis
Wear Your Values