Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes

Author: Thomas, Dana

Color: White

Edition: Illustrated

Number Of Pages: 320

Details:

*NYTBR Paperback Row Selection*An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it  What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a year and employs every sixth person on Earth. Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property—and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially, primarily out of view. We are in dire need of an entirely new human-scale model. Bestselling journalist Dana Thomas has traveled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future by reclaiming traditional craft and launching cutting-edge sustainable technologies to produce  better fashion.   In  Fashionopolis, Thomas sees renewal in a host of developments, including printing 3-D clothes, clean denim processing, smart manufacturing, hyperlocalism, fabric recycling—even lab-grown materials. From small-town makers and Silicon Valley whizzes to such household names as Stella McCartney, Levi’s, and Rent the Runway, Thomas highlights the companies big and small that are leading the crusade.   We all have been casual about our clothes. It's time to get dressed with intention.  Fashionopolis is the first comprehensive look at how to start.

Reviews:

“A glimpse into how consumerism, slowed to a less ferocious pace, might be reconciled with sustainability.”

— The New Yorker

"[A] Marley's Ghost-style warning of the irrevocable destructions to come . . . Thomas is engaging and vital." 

—  New York Review of Books

“If you’ve been paying any sort of attention, you know that fashion is a dirty business. Human rights abuses, environmental devastation, economic devastation—these are just the broad strokes of a deeply broken system. And  Fashionopolis seeks to pull the curtain back on that system. But it also wants to show us a way out.”

— Esquire

"A fascinating account [. . .] Dana Thomas, a veteran style writer, convincingly connects our fast-fashion wardrobes to global economic and climate patterns and crises [. . .] Among the book’s delights are Thomas’s sketches of her individual subjects […] Thomas displays her skills as a culture and style reporter as she visits the visionaries who are attempting to remake the industry, if not from whole cloth, then maybe from lab-grown or recycled fibers of some kind. […] Thomas has succeeded in calling attention to the major problems in the $2.4-trillion-a-year industry, in a way that will engage not only the fashion set but also those interested in economics, human rights and climate policy." —New York Times Book Review   

"[A] snappy, clear-minded attack on the fashion industry's rampant labor and environmental abuses. . . [Fast fashion] has decimated labor in developed countries, human rights in developing countries, and environmental quality across the globe

— and Thomas asks readers to resist it however we can." —

NPR Books  

" Fashionopolis is an eye-opening foray into the environmental impact of fast fashion

— and it’ll cause you to think twice before buying that Zara dress. Dana Thomas also explores the future of fashion with a number of eco-friendly developments." —

Refinery 29

“Dana Thomas’s  Fashionopolis takes readers through the dark history of the clothing industry, offering a detailed accounting of exactly what goes into the production of the 80 billion garments that are produced, purchased, discarded, and repurchased each year.”

— Science

“Thomas provides glimpses of change in the industry, describing, for example, energetic start-ups producing organic cotton socks and developing ferti...

EAN: 9780735224018

Release Date: 03-09-2019

Languages: English

Item Condition: New

Binding: Hardcover