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Mending Matters

Lotte — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:47:05 +0000

Mending Matters explores sewing on two levels: First, it includes more than 20 hands-on projects that showcase current trends in visible mending that are edgy, modern, and bold—but draw on traditional stitching. It does all this through just four very simple mending techniques: exterior patches, interior patches, slow stitches, darning, and weaving. In addition, the book addresses the way mending leads to a more mindful relationship to fashion and to overall well-being. In essays that accompany each how-to chapter, Katrina Rodabaugh explores mending as a metaphor for appreciating our own naturally flawed selves, and she examines the ways in which mending teaches us new skills, self-reliance, and confidence, all gained from making things with our own hands.

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Mending Life

Lotte — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:42:50 +0000

Mending Life

A Handbook for Repairing Clothes and Hearts g, and Patching to Practice Sustainable Fashion and Repair the Clothes You Love)

by Nina Montenegro and Sonya Montenegro

Learn the art of visible mending—a joyful, meditative, and restorative practice—to repair the clothes and belongings you love!

Mending Life, a beautiful modern sewing and mending guide with vibrant, full-color illustrations woven throughout, encourages us to break free from the fast fashion industry by repairing our clothes rather than discarding them. Along with DIY and how-to illustrations and tutorials, you’ll find heartfelt stories by authors Nina and Sonya Montenegro (creators of the popular @TheFarWoods) that encourage you to change your consumption habits, celebrate a sustainable, intentional lifestyle, demonstrate mending as a powerful act that not only strengthens the object we are repairing, but ourselves as well.

Beginners and Seasoned Sewers will find:

Basic Mending Skills – how to thread a needle, how to tie knots, and basic stitches
Sashiko – a striking Japanese hand-sewing technique for reinforcement and decoration
Darning – plain weave, swiss weave, crocheted patch, knitted patch, and needle-felted patch
Patching – the best three ways to patch holes how-to guide
Mending Tutorials by Item – down jackets, shirt cuffs, and linen
Other Common Repairs – snags, buttons, belt loops, leggings, pant pockets, and more
Sewing Beyond Mending – hemming pants, taking garments in, and adding pockets

Extend the life of your favorite clothes and beloved household items with mending with this timeless and practical guide to cherishing and caring for our belongings.

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ReFashioned: Cutting-Edge Clothing from Upcycled Material

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:33:37 +0000

Für die Mode werden Upcycling und Recyling zum Ausdruck der Slow-Fashion-Bewegung.
Bei ReFashioned arbeiten 46 internationale Designer mit recycelten Materialien und ausrangierten Kleidungsstücken, um ihnen ein neues Leben zu geben. Das Ergebnis sind wertige Kleidung und Accessoires, die auch in der Modewelt ein Statement zu den oft verschwenderischen und ausbeuterischen Praktiken abgeben.

Sass Brown is the Assistant Dean of the School of Art and Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and the former Resident Director of its study abroad program in Florence, Italy. As a designer, researcher, writer, journalist and blogger, her area of expertise is eco fashion in all of its various expressions. She is the New York editor for Coco Eco Magazine and writes for a range of other magazines and websites. Her first book, Eco Fashion, was published by Laurence King in 2010.

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Overdressed – The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:24:25 +0000

Cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenny now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. And we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when styles change so fast and it’s cheaper to just buy more.

„Overdressed does for T-shirts and leggings what Fast Food Nation did for burgers and fries.”
—Katha Pollitt

Cline sets out to uncover the true nature of the cheap fashion juggernaut. What are we doing with all these cheap clothes? And more important, what are they doing to us, our society, our environment, and our economic well-being?

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What’s the Future of Fashion?

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:19:35 +0000

The fashion industry (worth over $1 trillion and employing over 26 million people worldwide) is on the front line of environmental, political, social and generational challenges that are driving businesses around the world to reconsider long-established practices. Whether facing up to unsustainable production methods, embracing radical new modes of communication, or learning to cater to emerging niche markets across the world and to a new generation of young customers, the world of fashion is being actively reshaped by the demands of today’s world. Who better to guide us through these dizzying changes than Frances Corner, Head of London College of Fashion and a leading expert on this rapidly shifting and increasingly global industry?

Punctuated by exclusive quotes from fashion insiders at the leading edge of the industry, the book consists of a sequence of pithy commentaries on different aspects of the subject: ‚Business‘ (be it innovative ’slow fashion‘ businesses, new retail models or brands opting to manufacture locally), ‚Making‘ (from artisan designers to the revival in home-made clothes and the rise of one-man micro-fashion brands), ‚Education‘, ‚Communication‘ (from fashion activists to social media ’shop windows‘), ‚Health‘ (designing for disability or for older generations) and ‚Social Impact‘ (setting out the ways in which fashion is being used to push a progressive agenda, notably encouraging social, ethnic and religious diversity), making it a must-have resource for fashion students and professionals everywhere.

Dr Frances Corner OBE is the Head of London College of Fashion, the world’s leading educational establishment specializing in fashion education, research and consultancy.

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Clothing Poverty – The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:08:36 +0000

Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling? Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and recycling are interconnected. Andrew Brooks shows how recycled clothes are traded across continents, uncovers how retailers and international charities are embroiled in commodity chains which perpetuate poverty, and exposes the hidden trade networks which transect the globe. In this new and updated edition, Brooks retraces his steps to look at the fashion industry today, and considers how, if at all, the industry has changed in response to mounting consumer pressure for more ethical clothing. Stitching together rich narratives, from Mozambican markets, Nigerian smugglers and Chinese factories to London’s vintage clothing scene, TOMS shoes and Vivienne Westwood’s ethical fashion lines, Brooks uncovers the many hidden sides of fashion.

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How To Break Up With Fast Fashion – A guilt-free guide to changing the way you shop – for good

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:05:47 +0000

Global clothing production has roughly doubled in just 15 years, and every year an estimated 300,000 tonnes of used clothing ends up in UK landfill. Fast fashion is the ultimate toxic relationship. It’s bad news for the planet, our brains and our bank balances. We can’t go on like this; our shopping habits need an overhaul.

How to Break Up with Fast Fashion will help you to change your mindset, fall back in love with your wardrobe and embrace more sustainable ways of shopping – from the clothes swap to the charity shop. Full of refreshing honesty and realistic advice, Lauren will inspire you to repair, recycle and give your unloved items a new leaseof life without sacrificing your style.

Because fashion belongs to everyone, but no outfit should cost us the earth.

‚A funny, achievable guide‘ Observer

‚Offers honest and realistic advice . . . Bravo will inspire you to repair, recycle and give old items a new lease of life, all without sacrificing your style, and the planet‘ Stylist

Lauren Bravo is a freelance journalist who writes about fashion, popular culture, food, travel and feminism.

She wasThe Pool’s ‚Wardrobe Stories‘ columnist. Her first book, What Would The Spice Girls Do? was published by Transworld in 2018. In 2019, Lauren went on a year-long fast fashion ban. She volunteers in a charity shop once a week (to get first dibs on all the best clothes). Lauren has written about fashion since 2009, and about changing the way that we shop since 2016. She is on Twitter and Instagram as @laurenbravo.

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Sustainable Fashion: Responsible Consumption, Design, Fabrics, and Materials

Lotte — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:01:25 +0000

This practical book is a valuable resource for promoting sustainable fashion. It shows to general audience, as well as professionals in the fashion business (designers, store owners, among others), the available alternatives in the fashion world in terms of sustainability. It includes case studies.

Wearme Fashion, founded by Vera Artemyeva, is an advocate for conscious manufacturers, creators, designers, brands, and consumers, who are creating fashion with a sustainable approach. Its mission is to create a supportive, global, sustainable community built on authenticity, creativity and the ambition to develop a sustainable market from niche to a norm. They create the right connections to unite this growing sustainable industry.

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Sustainable Fashion – Past, Present and Future

Lotte — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 23:57:14 +0000

Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today’s eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context and explore the historical relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century. Employing an expanded definition of sustainability that also considers ethical issues, Farley and Hill explore each stage of the fashion production cycle, from the cultivation of raw fibers to the shipment of the finished garment. Structured thematically, each of the six chapters is dedicated to the discussion of one major issue, from recycling and repurposing to labour practices and the treatment of animals. Including interviews with eco-fashion designers, Sustainable Fashion will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, as well as students of design, history and cultural studies.

Jennifer Farley Gordon is a PhD student in the Apparel, Merchandising, and Design program at Iowa State University, and serves as a graduate research assistant in the Textiles and Clothing Museum. From 2008 until 2013, she was an assistant curator at The Museum at FIT, New York City, USA.
Colleen Hill is Associate Curator of Accessories at The Museum at FIT, New York City, USA.

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The Dangers of Fashion – Towards Ethical and Sustainable Solutions

Lotte — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 23:28:22 +0000

From sweatshops to fur farming, from polluting chemicals to painful garments, the fashion industry is associated with activities which have had devastating effects on workers, consumers, and the natural world. This ground-breaking volume provides a framework for examining the ethical, social, and environmental dangers that arise as fashion products are designed, manufactured, distributed, and sold within retail outlets, before being consumed and disposed of. Encompassing the cultural, psychological, and physiological aspects of fashion, it offers a comprehensive exploration of the hazards of a global industry.

Drawing together an international team of leading textile and apparel experts, The Dangers of Fashion presents original perspectives on a wide range of topics from piracy and counterfeiting to human trafficking; from the effects of globalization on local industry to the peer pressure that governs contemporary ideals of beauty. Rooted in research into industry and consumer practices, it discusses innovative solutions–both potential and existing–to fashion’s dangers and moral dilemmas from the viewpoint of individuals, companies, societies, and the global community.

Sara B. Marcketti is Director of the Center of Excellence in Learning and Teaching and Professor of Apparel, Events, and Hospitality Management at Iowa State University, USA
Elena E. Karpova is Putnam and Hayes Distinguished Professor of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA

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