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As a recent graduate from fashion school, I have become very disillusioned with the fashion industry.

I work clothing retail and JUST all the plastic bags that everything comes in is enough to turn me away. Then I see all the “made in china” tags, synthetic fabric and all the clothing that just isn’t even sold. Then the women buying things that they don’t need. For someone who puts the earth first, it is extremely overwhelming and enough to make me become a kindergarten teacher.

Then comes in this lovely and extremely dense and knowledge based text. Every essay is written by experts based upon their REAL LIFE experience. This is not a book about what could be; this is a book of experienced professionals laying out what they have learned about sustainability after years in the industry.

The topics cover such diverse subjects as the art-to-wear movement, how to cut garments to conserve fabric, the global used clothing market, textile production and China’s world dominance in fashion production.

After reading this book, I feel a renewed need to go out and work to produce sustainable fashion.

If fashion is what you have chosen for a career, or if you are like me, and it chose you, then this is a must read for you.

It is imperative that everyone who works in this often sickening and gluttonous industry understands what each individual can do to make it a better, sustainable process. It does not have to be a worst case scenario,it can be a beautiful product and process.

I recommend that classes at schools across the country be taught based on the dense knowledge contained in this book. But we are all always students, especially in the fashion world. So read this book, and understand, like I did, that it is not a lost cause. Not by a long shot.

Rating: 5 / 5