Sustainable Fashion and Sustainable Luxury Markets

Dear Colleagues,

The negative societal and environmental impacts of Fashion and Luxury Markets are clearly highlighted in the recent publication of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report (http://www.ipcc.ch/). These markets have received far less scrutiny than sectors such as food, agriculture, energy, and transportation, but the business, governmental, and societal change needed to address the shortcomings in these sectors is of growing and immediate interest. Since the earliest research into these field in the mid-2000’s, there has been a slow but steady expansion of books and papers in these sectors. Media attention is also increasingly highlighting areas for change, and social movements such as the Haulternative Fashion Revolution are proliferating across markets. Now is a prime opportunity to take stock of the development of the field, to identify existing gaps, and to investigate a more sustainable future. In this Special Issue, we encourage an interdisciplinary perspective on tackling the major challenges of this sector and the UN’s call to ensure more Sustainable Consumption & Production (SC&P) patterns as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals [Goal 12]. We encourage research into (but not exclusively) the development and replicability of sustainable business models, sustainable market-making, research and development in sustainable innovations, alternative models of consumption, social influence on consumption habits, sustainability education, the reshaping of habitual norms, and explorations of the barriers and drivers for societal change.

Dr. Iain Davies
Dr. Claudia E Henninger
Dr. Sarah Glozer
Prof. Pierre McDonagh
Miss. Amira Battle
Guest Editor

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