Fashion Fictions

<p><b>If you could imagine an entirely new fashion system, what would you dream up? </b><br><br>An open access book, <i>Fashion Fictions: Imagining Sustainable Worlds </i>presents a kaleidoscope of crowdsourced responses to this open-ended prompt, exploring the common themes and issues that arose in the myriad of ideas received.<br><br>Bridging the gap between fiction and reality, this imaginative and original project brings something entirely new to the study of fashion and sustainability. Each world differs immensely – in one, the fashion conscious use foliage to dress up for a night out while, in another, commercial trade in clothing is as unthinkable as trade in human organs. These fascinating imaginings are fleshed out and brought to life by each chapter.<br><br>A source of inspiration for designers, researchers, activists and students alike, <i>Fashion Fictions</i> encourages its readers to reimagine the world around them and reveals what people are really yearning for in their experience of fashion.<br><br><i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.</i></p>