The fashion industry, one of the largest industries in the world, is a complicated
phenomenon, driven by aspirations of symbolic lifestyle and the creativity of architecture and …

Despite the strong societal demand for circular fashion (CF) businesses, the literature lacks
a contextualized understanding about what has been explored versus what has been …

Sustainability strategy at companies has become a key business and management aspect
for the development and success of an enterprise. The communication of strategies and …

Fashion is characterised by rapidly changing trends and consumption patterns which have
led to complexities and dynamism of the fashion supply chain (SC). Excessive generation of …

In the past decades, industrial design practice and research have focused extensively on
how to optimize production and consumption, as a way to prevent negative environmental …

The way in which the current fashion industry operates needs to fundamentally change. In
this endeavour, designers are considered central figures throughout the sustainable fashion …

Purpose The transition to a circular economy (CE) is a known concern in the context of the
textile industry, in which business actors attempt to facilitate circular activities such as textile …

Different studies in the scientific literature have shown how the transition towards a circular
economy (CE) can benefit from product design, although maintaining a rather broad and …

Research and development of new products in the smart textile field is growing rapidly
because of versatile application areas. There is an extensive focus on the integration of …

As designers increasingly become involved in larger and more complex multidisciplinary
collaborations, they find themselves in unprecedented contexts of practice. New tools and …