In one side, the apparel industry is focussing on the real-time data, IoT, machine to machine networking, micro-factory, intelligent manufacturing for making the business sustainable. On the other hand, we need to make the fashion products sustainable way. All we need to understand the technology of the latest manufacturing tools, and the concept of sustainable fashion manufacturing.
During my study, I came to know about many terms related to sustainability in the fashion industry. Most of the terms we read on the journals and apparel and textile-related conferences.
- Sustainability in the fashion industry
- Sustainable future for fashion
- Circularity in fashion
- Circular fashion
- Closed loop clothing
- Circular economy
- No-waste economy
- Circular mindset
- Circular denim
- Sustainable material sourcing
- environmental sustainability
- environmental and social sustainability
- sustainable fashion supply chain
- responsible fashion sourcing
- sustainable product design
- Zero waste
- Organic cotton
- Sustainable cotton
- Higg FEM
- Sustainable business practice
- Sustainability performance
Forums on Sustainable Fashion
- Textile Exchange Sustainability conference
- A Sustainability Paradigm: Circularity by Fibre2fashion.com
- Sustainable apparel forum a global forum on sustainability established in Bangladesh
- Sustainable apparel coalition
Free eBooks to Read
I have also discovered a few ebooks on the internet those have covered this topic – sustainability in fashion.
Fibre2fashion.com has published the following 4 ebooks on Circularity in fashion
- Sustainability Compendium 1
- Sustainability Plus
- Enhanced Sustainability Compendium
- Sustainability Compendium-4
- Global Sustainability Report 2017
- Global sustainability report 2018
I know there are many good articles and books available online and off-line. If you have come across with any good content (article, books, ebook), share with us. I would love to include those resource on this page.

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