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- Cover date: 2023
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- Volume (1): Issue (1)
- Cover date: 2022
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- Volume (1): Issue (2)
- Cover date: 2022
International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles
International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles (Journal)
ISSN 2754026X , ONLINE ISSN 27540278
International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles is a peer-reviewed academic publication and the world’s first ongoing subscription journal dedicated to the area of sustainability and ethics in the fashion and textiles industry. Its principal objectives are to provide a platform for the advancement of sustainable fashion and textiles innovation, raise awareness of the environmental and social issues and disseminate how sustainable solutions can be implemented.
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Principal Editor
Debbie Moorhouse
University of Huddersfield, UK
D.Moorhouse@hud.ac.uk
Associate Editors
Peggy Blum
University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University, USA
p_b185@txstate.edu
Corinna Budnarowska
Arts University Bournemouth, UK
cbudnarowska@aub.ac.uk
Claudia Henninger
University of Manchester, UK
Claudia.henninger@manchester.ac.uk
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
British School of Fashion, GCU London, UK
natascha.radclyffethomas@gcu.ac.uk
Graham H. Roberts
Université Paris Nanterre, France
Desiree Smal
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
dsmal@uj.ac.za
Aims & Scope
International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles is a peer-reviewed industry publication and the world’s first ongoing subscription journal dedicated to the area of sustainability and ethics in the fashion and textiles industry. Its principal aim is to provide a platform for the advancement of sustainable fashion and textiles innovation, raise awareness of the issues and disseminate how sustainable solutions can be implemented.
The subject is approached from a range of perspectives, publishing a variety of conceptual, theoretical and practice based work from around the world. Submissions are invited from both industry and academics on all aspects of ethical and sustainable fashion and textiles which address the key themes of sustainable materials, design, ethical production, distribution, retail and consumption, and education.
The journal will seek to stimulate ongoing research in these, and other, areas, not only from scholars researching in these areas, but also from practitioners, museum curators, NGOs, and others traditionally excluded from academic debate. The journal will thus encourage interdisciplinary research that crosses – and indeed challenges – the boundaries between the humanities and the social sciences, in an aim to unite and enlarge an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners working in this extremely topical area.
How can the fashion industry embrace sustainable design thinking to create innovative and strategic solutions which address social and environmental exploitation through products and markets that support empowerment? We welcome article contributions on all aspects of social, environmental and economic sustainability in fashion. Topics include but are not limited to:
- Sustainable Design: The value of design in social and environmental innovation including textiles, clothing and accessories.
- Ethically Made: Addressing the issues of supply chain exploitation through fair employment, innovation, sustainable materials, low waste production and eco-friendly manufacturing.
- Retail & Consumption: The impact of consumer behaviour and decision making in relation to ethics and sustainability. Responsible advertising and cause related marketing. The role of retailers in product lifecycle and circular economy initiatives.
- Education: Reframing pedagogical approaches within fashion education to ensure a sustainable future for the fashion industry.
The mission ofInternational Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles is to unite industry, education and organizations worldwide to raise awareness of the issues and create positive change. Our aim is to present a truly global perspective on a critical issue and this journal has been established to act as a repository for published research within the field of fashion sustainability and ethics connecting industry and academia.
Through International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles our goal is to not only publish the most current information and engaging content on all aspects of sustainability in fashion and textiles, but also to showcase practical tools that can be adopted by the industry, create solutions to the current challenges and have a genuine impact.
Submissions
To submit an article, please follow the 'Submit' button on the left of this page.
All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.
Download the Notes for Contributors below for information on format and style of submissions. If you need this document in a more accessible format, please contact info@intellectbooks.
Peer Review Policy
All articles undergo initial editorial screening either by the journal's Editorial Team and/or incumbent Guest Editors. Articles then undergo a rigorous anonymous peer review by two referees, following the guidance in Intellect's 'Peer review instructions'. Based on this feedback, the Editors will communicate a decision and revision suggestions to authors. To appeal an editorial decision, please contact the main Editor who will consider your case.
Ethical Guidelines
The journal follows the principles set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Read our Ethical Guidelines for more on the journal's standards.
Notes for Contributors
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Principal Editor
Debbie Moorhouse
University of Huddersfield, UK
D.Moorhouse@hud.ac.uk
Associate Editors
Peggy Blum
University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University, USA
p_b185@txstate.edu
Corinna Budnarowska
Arts University Bournemouth, UK
cbudnarowska@aub.ac.uk
Claudia Henninger
University of Manchester, UK
Claudia.henninger@manchester.ac.uk
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
British School of Fashion, GCU London, UK
natascha.radclyffethomas@gcu.ac.uk
Graham H. Roberts
Université Paris Nanterre, France
Desiree Smal
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
dsmal@uj.ac.za
Principal Editor
Debbie Moorhouse
University of Huddersfield, UK
D.Moorhouse@hud.ac.uk
Associate Editors
Peggy Blum
University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University, USA
p_b185@txstate.edu
Corinna Budnarowska
Arts University Bournemouth, UK
cbudnarowska@aub.ac.uk
Claudia Henninger
University of Manchester, UK
Claudia.henninger@manchester.ac.uk
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
British School of Fashion, GCU London, UK
natascha.radclyffethomas@gcu.ac.uk
Graham H. Roberts
Université Paris Nanterre, France
Desiree Smal
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
dsmal@uj.ac.za
Principal Editor
Debbie Moorhouse
University of Huddersfield, UK
D.Moorhouse@hud.ac.uk
Associate Editors
Peggy Blum
University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University, USA
p_b185@txstate.edu
Corinna Budnarowska
Arts University Bournemouth, UK
cbudnarowska@aub.ac.uk
Claudia Henninger
University of Manchester, UK
Claudia.henninger@manchester.ac.uk
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
British School of Fashion, GCU London, UK
natascha.radclyffethomas@gcu.ac.uk
Graham H. Roberts
Université Paris Nanterre, France
Desiree Smal
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
dsmal@uj.ac.za
General Call for Papers
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Call for Papers: 'PLATE2023 Conference: The Future of Sustainable Clothing Use Practice’
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General Call for Papers
The International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles (SFT) is a peer-reviewed academic publication and the world’s first ongoing subscription journal dedicated to the area of sustainability and ethics in the fashion and textiles industry. Its principal objectives are to provide a platform for the advancement of sustainable fashion and textiles innovation, raise awareness of the environmental and social issues and disseminate how sustainable solutions can be implemented. The journal aims to approach the broad subject of sustainability from both an academic and industry perspective, inviting stakeholders from all areas of the fashion and textile industry to submit innovative research which will inform future sustainable developments. The subject is approached from a range of perspectives, publishing a variety of conceptual, theoretical and practice-based work from around the world. The journal will encourage interdisciplinary research that crosses – and indeed challenges – the boundaries between the humanities and the social sciences, in an aim to unite and enlarge an increasingly global community of researchers and practitioners working in this extremely topical area.
Submissions are invited from both industry professionals and academics on all aspects of ethical and sustainable fashion and textiles which address the key themes of sustainable materials, design, ethical production, distribution, retail and consumption, and education.
Contributions are welcomed on all aspects of social, environmental and economic sustainability in fashion and textiles. Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Sustainable design
- Low waste production
- Ethical manufacturing
- Circular economy initiatives
- Social and environmental innovation including textiles, clothing and accessories
- Supply chain and LCA in relation to ethics and sustainability
- Sustainable materials
- Consumer behaviour in relation to ethics and sustainability
- Social innovation
- Education: Reframing pedagogical approaches to sustainability
- Responsible advertising and cause-related marketing / branding
- Textile recycling initiatives
- Sustainable fashion practices such as recycling, upcycling, remanufacture
- Textile cycle of manufacture, circulation, consumption and disposal
- Fashion and textile impact on the world’s natural assets, resources and environments
SFT invites contributions of the following:
Research Articles: 6000–8000 words
Book/Event/Conference/Exhibition Reviews: 1000–2000 words
Interviews: 1500–2000 words
Industry Reports: 5000 words maximum
Case Studies: 1500–2000
Submission guidelines
Please submit via the link on the journal homepage.
Extended abstracts should be approximately 700–1000 words in length, and must include a title, keywords, full names of authors (with indication of corresponding author), affiliation, contact details and a short biography of around 150 words for each contributing author. You should include details of how your work responds to the wider conversation on sustainability and give some indication of the format (including suggested word count) of the final article. The submission should be an anonymized Word document attachment. The editors will aim to let prospective authors know their final decision as soon as possible.
All submissions must follow Intellect’s house style. It is the author’s responsibility to clear the usage rights for all images to be published in the manuscript.
Special Issue Call for Papers
Special Issue: 'The Future of Sustainable Clothing use Practice'
This Special Issue relates to the PLATE2023 conference, which addresses Product Lifetimes and the Environment in the context of sustainability.
Conference website: https://www.plateconference.org/plate-2023-conference/
Guest editors: Kirsi Niinimäki, Aalto University, Finland; Cosette M. Joyner Martinez, Oklahoma State University, USA; Claudia E Henninger, University of Manchester, UK; Katia Dyan Vladi, University of Geneva, Switzerland
The current fashion landscape is in flux. From the recently released EU Textile Strategy to a growing number of industry reports, fashion’s dirty secret – its waste problem – has received increased attention (Berg et al. 2019; WRAP 2020a, 2020b; EEA 2022). However, despite this acknowledgment, it is unclear what actionable solutions will effectively solve the problem. For example, it has been argued that ‘extending the life of clothing by an extra nine months could reduce carbon, waste, and water footprints by around 20–30% each’ (EAC 2019). But how do we get there?
Over the past two decades, consumption of garments has doubled globally while use time has been halved due to the rise of the fast fashion system. Consumers are acquiring more clothing, using it less, and disposing of it faster without a conscious recognition of the environmental and social costs. Currently fashion consumers’ existence revolves around consumptive practices such as buying, replacing, storing, and disposing at an unsustainable pace and scale. Garments move through the consumption phase too quickly and consumers have too few incentives to extend the life of their clothing. Over half of all produced clothing ends its still-useful life via incineration or landfill within a single year (Remy et al. 2016) while other under-utilized clothing accumulates in consumer closets. The problem of the ever-shortening life spans of fashion goods is fuelled by novelty-seeking consumers as well as plummeting quality of garments. Low technical quality of the garments’ materials, trimmings, and finishings results in a wide range of problems for the use phase – from loss of colour and shape to noticeable wear-and-tear. Garment repair is discouraged by the low quality of fast fashion garments, the deterioration of which is accelerated by laundry routines that are too frequent and implicate toxic substances (Cline 2019; Cooper et al. 2014); garment care being one of the most polluting domains of domestic practice (Laitala et al. 2018; WRAP 2017).
Impact per wear is recognized as the ultimate measure of sustainability for the fashion value chain. By using a garment longer, consumers reduce its per-wear impact. Admittedly, the current environmental and social impacts are by-products of a relationship with clothing that has become devoid of meaning, purpose, and connection in the fast fashion system. Fletcher’s Craft of Use (2016) illuminated a life with clothing found far outside the fashion system; a usership that is rooted in meaning and connection found within use practice. To view consumers as users is to highlight a powerful force for change. There, new narratives are shaped around behaviours that are employed by empowered agents.
This Special Issue seeks contributions that help fully articulate how clothing users extend the life of their clothes and address the problem of textile waste. We invite research studies and conceptual or theoretical papers that provide new understanding of clothing users as agents of change and how usership is fostered. During the COVID-19 pandemic, consumer behaviour shifted, with market reports indicating that they (consumers) are actively seeking more sustainable solutions and rediscovering their wardrobes; yet, with restrictions having been lifted, it is unclear whether this shift will remain or revert to old habits.
As such, we are seeking papers which offer alternative approaches and new views to sustainable fashion consumption. Papers may address the following aspects:
- Focus on the use phase of apparel and the different opportunities to reverse the trend of quick wardrobe turnarounds towards slower, more mindful practices ending up to longer use phase.
- Define mindful clothing consumption, mindful consumer practices as well as other spiritual notions relevant to consumption within larger necessity for sufficiency and degrowth.
- Explore how the EAC’s (2019) suggestion of extending the life of garments by an extra nine months can be made into a reality.
- Explore what consumers can do to reduce the impact their loved and pre-loved garments have on the natural and social environment.
- Investigate how slower consumption, reusing, recycling, repairing could influence on consumers’ taste and fashion aesthetics.
- Explore the practice of using less and counter-consumption movements that link well-being to fewer material possessions (in case of clothes and fashion) and sufficiency.
- Explore actionable solutions to reducing consumption, by further drawing on a multi-disciplinary approach to research these solutions.
Very few studies provide comprehensive insight into the usership of clothes, and more specifically the role of the consumer as an agent of change. This issue has the potential to outline the key pathways to consumer-driven change, as industry and policymakers seem to ignore consumers’ agency. Much of marketing research has aimed to provide the industry with an understanding of consumer preferences for sustainability products rather than identifying alternative pathways that are less material intensive and wasteful. Moreover, there is a need to fully understand how consumers may enact important lifestyle changes with clothing and how those changes may propel meaningful systemic change.
Submission guidelines
Please e-mail contributions to the guest editor, Kirsi Niinimaki: kirsi.niinimaki@aalto.fi.
Extended abstracts should be approximately 700 words in length, and must include a title, keywords, your full name, affiliation, contact details and a short biography of around 150 words. The submission should be an anonymized Word document attachment. The editors will aim to let prospective authors know their final decision as soon as possible. The deadline for full manuscripts for peer-review is 31 December 2023.
All submissions must follow Intellect’s house style: www.intellectbooks.com/asset/1255/house-style-guide-5th-ed-2021.pdf.
It is the author’s responsibility to clear the usage rights for all images to be published in the manuscript.
Abstracts should be submitted before 30 June 2023
Full papers to be submitted by 1 September 2023
Peer review process to be completed by 31 October 2023
Full paper deadline (if accepted): 31 December 2023
Special issue for issue 3.1 due to be published April 2024
Principal Editor
Debbie Moorhouse
University of Huddersfield, UK
D.Moorhouse@hud.ac.uk
Associate Editors
Peggy Blum
University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University, USA
p_b185@txstate.edu
Corinna Budnarowska
Arts University Bournemouth, UK
cbudnarowska@aub.ac.uk
Claudia Henninger
University of Manchester, UK
Claudia.henninger@manchester.ac.uk
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
British School of Fashion, GCU London, UK
natascha.radclyffethomas@gcu.ac.uk
Graham H. Roberts
Université Paris Nanterre, France
Desiree Smal
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
dsmal@uj.ac.za
Editorial Board
Kevin Almond
University of Leeds, UK
Taylor Brydges
Stockholm University, Sweden
Sarah Gilligan
Northumbria University, UK
Helen Goworek
Durham University, UK
Alison Gwilt
UNSW Sydney, Australia
Fiona Hackney
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Mary Hanlon
Okanagan College, Canada
Janet Hethorn
Central Michigan University, USA
Alana James
Northumbria University, UK
Banhi Jha
National Institute of Fashion Technology, India
Cosette M. Joyner Martinez
Oklahoma State University, USA
Mariangela Lavanga
Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Danielle Moorhouse
International Society for Sustainable Fashion, UK
Kirsi Niinimäki
Aalto University, Finland
Alice Payne
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Anne Peirson-Smith
Northumbria University, UK
Susan Postlethwaite
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Ellen Sampson
Northumbria University, UK
Constance B. Ulasewicz
San Francisco State University, USA
Katia Vladimirova
Université de Genève, Switzerland
Jennifer Whitty
Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA
Christina Wong
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Advisory Board
Rina Arya
University of Huddersfield, UK
Catherine Dauriac
Fashion Revolution France, France
Eve Demoen
Fashion Museum Hasselt, Belgium
Christopher Hill
Chargeurs Interlining UK Ltd, UK
Leslie Holden
The Digital Fashion Group, Belgium
Kieran Phelan
University of Nottingham, UK
Steven Price
Chargeurs Interlining UK Ltd, UK
Principal Editor
Debbie Moorhouse
University of Huddersfield, UK
D.Moorhouse@hud.ac.uk
Associate Editors
Peggy Blum
University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University, USA
p_b185@txstate.edu
Corinna Budnarowska
Arts University Bournemouth, UK
cbudnarowska@aub.ac.uk
Claudia Henninger
University of Manchester, UK
Claudia.henninger@manchester.ac.uk
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
British School of Fashion, GCU London, UK
natascha.radclyffethomas@gcu.ac.uk
Graham H. Roberts
Université Paris Nanterre, France
Desiree Smal
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
dsmal@uj.ac.za
China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)
Principal Editor
Debbie Moorhouse
University of Huddersfield, UK
D.Moorhouse@hud.ac.uk
Associate Editors
Peggy Blum
University of Texas at Austin and Texas State University, USA
p_b185@txstate.edu
Corinna Budnarowska
Arts University Bournemouth, UK
cbudnarowska@aub.ac.uk
Claudia Henninger
University of Manchester, UK
Claudia.henninger@manchester.ac.uk
Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas
British School of Fashion, GCU London, UK
natascha.radclyffethomas@gcu.ac.uk
Graham H. Roberts
Université Paris Nanterre, France
Desiree Smal
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
dsmal@uj.ac.za
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