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Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion - and the Future of Clothes de Dana Thomas

Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion - and the Future of Clothes

Autor Dana Thomas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 feb 2020

Problema fundamentală pe care o adresăm astăzi nu este doar ce purtăm, ci impactul devastator al unui sistem care generează 80 de miliarde de haine anual, exploatând resursele și forța de muncă în mod invizibil. În Fashionopolis, remarcăm o analiză autoritară a mecanismelor din spatele fenomenului fast fashion, o industrie care a devenit al doilea cel mai mare poluator global. Considerăm că această lucrare depășește simpla critică socială, oferind un inventar riguros al soluțiilor tehnologice și etice care pot reforma sistemul, de la reciclarea materialelor la producția hyperlocală.

Cititorul care a aplicat strategiile de conștientizare din The Dirty Side of the Garment Industry va găsi aici continuarea logică: o foaie de parcurs către viitorul sustenabil al modei. În timp ce alte lucrări se concentrează pe daune, Dana Thomas investighează activ inovațiile din Silicon Valley și atelierele meșteșugărești care redefinesc luxul și utilitatea. Recomandăm acest volum ca pe o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea noii economii circulare.

Poziționăm această carte ca fiind pilonul central al trilogiei autoarei despre industria luxului și a modei. Dacă în Deluxe Thomas analiza pierderea prestigiului brandurilor mari, iar în Gods and Kings explora geniul și prăbușirea unor creatori precum Alexander McQueen, Fashionopolis reprezintă manifestul ei pentru o industrie mai umană. Este o tranziție de la biografie și istorie economică spre o investigație tehnologică și morală necesară oricărui profesionist din domeniu.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781789546088
ISBN-10: 1789546087
Pagini: 356
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Apollo
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte oricărui consumator sau profesionist care dorește să înțeleagă costul real al garderobei sale. Veți învăța cum să distingeți între promisiunile de marketing și sustenabilitatea reală, descoperind tehnologii precum denimul curat sau materialele bio-sintetice. Este un ghid pragmatic despre cum putem trece de la consumul impulsiv la îmbrăcarea cu intenție, susținând în același timp inovația responsabilă.

Despre autor

Dana Thomas este o jurnalistă de prestigiu, stabilită la Paris, cu o carieră marcată de colaborări cu publicații precum New York Times, The New Yorker și Vogue. A fost corespondent cultural pentru Newsweek și a primit distincția de Cavaler al Ordinului Artelor și Literelor din partea Ministerului Culturii din Franța pentru contribuția sa la jurnalismul de modă. Expertiza sa în mecanismele economice ale luxului și analizele sale pătrunzătoare despre evoluția industriei textile au transformat-o într-una dintre cele mai respectate voci din domeniu, fiind autoarea mai multor volume de succes internațional.

Descriere

'A gripping blockbuster ... Thomas researches meticulously and writes with simmering even-handed anger' Lisa Armstrong, TELEGRAPH. 'The definitive book on clothing and sustainability.

Your new must-read' SUNDAY TIMES STYLE. An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry - and the grassroots, high tech, international movement fighting to reform it. What should I wear? It's one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day.

More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a year and employs every sixth person on Earth. Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labour, the environment, and intellectual property - and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially - and primarily out of view.

We are in dire need of an entirely new human-scale model. Bestselling journalist Dana Thomas has travelled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future by reclaiming traditional craft and launching cutting-edge sustainable technologies to produce better fashion. In Fashionopolis, Thomas sees renewal in a host of developments, including printing 3-D clothes, clean denim processing, smart manufacturing, hyperlocalism, fabric recycling - even lab-grown materials.

From small-town makers and Silicon Valley whizzes to household names such as Stella McCartney, Levi's and Selfridges, Thomas highlights the companies big and small that are leading the crusade. We all have been casual about our clothes. It's time to get dressed with intention.

Fashionopolis is the first comprehensive look at how to start.

Recenzii

Thomas convincingly lays out multiple arguments against fast fashion... Thoroughly reported and persuasively written, Thomas's clarion call for more responsible practices in fashion will speak to both industry professionals and socially conscious consumers'
Thomas, a Paris-based fashion journalist, takes a story most of us think we know, but tells it better and in compelling, readable detail... Thomas's focus on the big picture doesn't get in the way of her love of a quirky detail... Thomas's long view is thought-provoking... [Fashionopolis] also engagingly elucidates how we may change things'
A pleasurable read on the innovators trying to make clothes with less cruelty and harm... Engaging and thorough... Thomas's emphasis on upstart innovators and entrepreneurs is part of what makes the book such a pleasure to read'
Thomas offers a bracing, urgently important look at the ills fast fashion has wrought... This eye-opening book is a must-read not only for fashion junkies but for everyone who buys and wears clothes, enlightening us as to the garment industry's dark past, its embattled present, and - if we make the thoughtful choices Thomas presents - its bright future'
An eye-opening account of the true cost of "fast fashion"... Thomas circles the globe to profile innovators who are working to make the garment trade more sustainable and offers a vision of better, rather than, faster fashion... I, for one, will never open my closet and look at my choices in quite the same way again'
Thomas offers informed, fair-minded, passionate, and cautiously optimistic scrutiny of "fast fashion"... A distressing yet intriguing story... Engrossing... Convincing, responsible, and motivational fashion industry reportage'
Fast fashion and its long-term consequences are such crucial subjects that it's hard to believe that no one thought to write this book until now. And how lucky we are that it's Dana Thomas who finally did, bringing her encyclopedic knowledge and expertly trained eye to bear on the excesses of a system by which companies exploit people and the planet to produce clothes that we barely wear. Investigating the factory floor to runway in search of a better way forward, Thomas makes an unshakeable argument for a different way of getting dressed
A great resource for learning about the effects of fast fashion'
Fashionopolis is blunt: We're all going to drown in a landfill piled high with cheap clothes if we don't stop shopping like maniacs. Thomas's thoughtful reporting explains how w
Thomas's is one of those books you can't stop reading bits out from to whoever is around, and which winds up changing your entire perspective
A must-read for anyone in the industry
Exposes fashion's toxic relationship with the environment in its pursuit of 'unbridled capitalism'. If anything can persuade you to change your habits, this will
Thomas is a conscientious reporter - as evidenced in her research, which is studded with statistics... Fortunately, Thomas provides glimpses of change in the industry'
[A] well-researched and fascinating book... Her gift for scene-setting and her sharp assessments of many of the trendsetting entrepreneurs behind the scenes across the globe keeps Fashionopolis engaging throughout'
A raw and shocking account of the price of fast fashion, Fashionopolis is a magnificent resource for both the consumer and the industry
Thomas details the damage wrought by fashion's behemoths, and celebrates the visionaries including activists, artisans and designers fighting for change
A well-researched read about fast fashion and why we all need to change our habits
A compelling and devastating argument for why we should all be making more thoughtful choices
A compelling and devastating argument for why we should all be making more thoughtful choices

Caracteristici

MARKET: The Uninhabitable Earth; No Logo; Caroline Criado Perez.

Descriere scurtă

'A gripping blockbuster... Thomas researches meticulously and writes with simmering even-handed anger' TELEGRAPH. Fashionopolis is the definitive book on the cost of fast fashion, and a blueprint for how we get to a more sustainable future. Fashion has blighted our planet. Today, one out of six people on earth work in fashion, churning out 100 billion garments a year. Yet 98 percent of them do not earn a living wage, and 2.1 billion tonnes of clothing is thrown away annually. The clothing industry's exploitation of fellow humans and the environment has reached epic levels. What should we do?Bestselling author and veteran journalist Dana Thomas has travelled the globe to find the answers. In Fashionopolis, she details the damage wrought by fashion's behemoths, and celebrates the visionaries - including activists, artisans, designers, and tech entrepreneurs - fighting for change.We all have been casual about our clothes. It's time to get dressed with intention. Fashionopolis is the first comprehensive look at how to start.Reviews: 'Fascinating... Powerful... Thomas has succeeded in calling attention to the major problems of the fashion industry' New York Times'Thomas takes a story most of us think we know, but tells it better and in compelling, readable detail' The Times'Engaging and thorough... Fashionopolis has implications beyond cloth and thread' Financial Times'Thomas is a conscientious reporter - as evidenced in her research, which is studded with statistics' Times Literary Supplement