Graduation Date
5-2017
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Communication and Media Studies
Director of the Honors Program
Gigi Gokcek, PhD
First Reader
John Duvall, PhD
Second Reader
Bradley Van Alstyne, MA
Abstract
Sustainable fashion is a recent movement within the fashion industry that aims to reduce textile waste and environmental depletion while increasing ethical treatment of workers; the goal is to slow down the global production and consumption process in order to form an industry that will be more sustainable in the long run. Along with the development of more socially and eco-conscious production and marketing practices, there is still room for the sustainable fashion movement to grow beyond its current scope. With the support of growing information networks and brand transparency consumers will be better equipped than ever before to make more ethical purchasing decisions and to potentially change the face of the current fashion industry.
Included in
Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons