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Fashion City: The Cost of Fast Fashion and the Future of the Clothing Industry Author: Dana Thomas Translator: Liu Liping Chongqing University Press
Fashion City: The Cost of Fast Fashion and the Future of the Clothing Industry Author: Dana Thomas Translator: Liu Liping Chongqing University Press
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The uniqueness of Fashion in the City lies in that the author Dana Thomas does not preach in a rigid academic way, but personally investigates on the spot, spends many years visiting factories, studios and designers themselves, and tells the rich first-hand stories and experiences. As a good friend, I have watched her practice step by step over the years, which I find very valuable. If you are a fashion professional, you can have a deeper understanding of the industry from the book; if you are an ordinary person, you can also enjoy the fun of dressing up, and have a new understanding and thinking about how to reduce waste and protect the environment, so as to become a more responsible consumer.
——Angelica Cheung, editorial director of Vogue Fashion & Beauty
Fashion in the City is an investigation into the damage wrought by mass clothing manufacturing—and the global, grassroots, high-tech movement to change it.
What should I wear? It's one of those questions we ask ourselves every day. And more than ever, we're being told we should get some new clothes. In the age of fast fashion, the clothing industry produces 80 billion new garments a year, and one in six people worldwide is employed in the business. Historically, the clothing industry has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property—and over the past 20 years, this fashion nightmare has multiplied exponentially. We desperately need a new model that scales to fit the needs of our people. To find the future, bestselling fashion journalist Dinah Thomas traveled around the world to find visionary designers and companies who are reviving traditional production methods and making "better" fashion through cutting-edge sustainable technologies.
"Fashionable City: The Cost of Fast Fashion and the Future of the Apparel Industry" is a book about fashion culture and the latest work by Dina Thomas, the author of "Luxury".
The book is divided into two parts. The first part tells a story about the over-exploitation of capitalism. This part is a continuation of "Luxury". The author revisits the sweatshop mentioned in "Luxury" and also tells the current situation of "sweatshop". In addition, Thomas conducted an in-depth investigation of the entire production chain of the clothing industry - exposing the damage caused by the globalized profit-seeking supply chain of the clothing industry: sweatshop labor, ecological degradation, overconsumption, waste and creative exhaustion.
At the same time, Thomas also sees the renewal and iteration of this industry, from 3D clothing production to the processing of clean denim, from smart manufacturing to hyperlocalization, from truly circular fabrics to laboratory-produced leather. In the second part of the book, the author talks about the current changes in the fashion industry and the future direction of development. The research and development and application of new technologies are changing the way we buy and produce clothes. From Stella McCartney and Levi's to Moda Operandi and Rent the Runway, Thomas counts the various companies and institutions that are leading this new fashion revolution.
We've all been so casual about what we wear, now's the time to think seriously about what we wear. Fashion in the City is the first series to take such a comprehensive look at our clothes and our future, and what we're going to do next.
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About the Author
Dana Thomas is a fashion writer and regular contributor to the New York Times. She began her fashion writing career in Washington, D.C., working for The Washington Post and as a European arts and entertainment correspondent for Newsweek in Paris from 1995 to 2011. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, WSJ, Financial Time, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Architectural Digest, and Elle Décor, and she was the European editor of Condé Nast Portfolio. From 1996 to 1999, she taught journalism at The American University of Paris. In 1987, she received a Sigma Delta Chi Foundation Scholarship and the Ellis Haller Award for Outstanding Achievement in Journalism. In 2016, the French Minister of Culture awarded Thomas the title of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Over the past 15 years, she has written about fashion and luxury goods for The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine's Paris bureau. Her articles exploring the dark side of the luxury goods industry are penetrating, revealing the truth that Prada, Gucci and Burberry and other famous brands do not want the public to know. She has published bestsellers "Luxury" and "Kings and Gods", and "Fashion City" is her third book.
