Fashionopolis: The Cost of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothing

Criticism of fast fashion and thoughtless consumption leading to heavy operation of labor and natural resources.
A new concept of modern fashion, from the point of view of humanism and environmental protection.
Interview with progressive designers around the world and entrepreneurs of the fashion industry.
The best practices in the field of stable fashion.
What to wear? We ask this question every morning. And we answer: it would be good for something new. Today, 80 billion clothing items are produced every year in the world, and every sixth person on the planet is occupied in this industry. Yes, the fashion industry has traditionally put labor, natural and intellectual resources at the service, but in recent decades, as fast fashion, globalization and revolutionary technologies, abuse of all these resources is growing, avalanche -shaped. We desperately need a new, humanistic, fashion concept, the famous journalist Dan Thomas believes.

Thomas traveled to the whole world in search of perspicacious designers and companies that give a positive impulse of the fashion industry, reviving traditional crafts and introducing advanced stable production technologies. In the book, it describes many progressive developments, including the manufacture of clothing using 3-D-printing, the methods of denim, processing materials for reuse, hyperlocalism, and even growing materials in laboratories.

Among the first-advance companies, Thomas allocates modest local manufacturers, and the seats of Silicon Valley, and the world-famous fashion houses, such as Stella McCartney, Levi’s and Rent the Runway. The author fascinatingly and emotionally talks about meetings with their representatives, their ideas and achievements. Thomas is convinced: we are too careless of our clothes. Her book urges each of us to think carefully when answering the question of what to wear