Compared to other industries, fashion apparel retail faces many challenges in predicting future demand for its products with a high degree of precision. Fashion products’ short life cycle, insufficient historical information, highly uncertain m...
Motivated by the recent blockchain technology originally built for bitcoin transactions, various industries are exploring the opportunities to redefine their existing operational systems. In this study, an innovative environmentally sustainable solut...
The fashion and apparel (FA) industry faces a critical challenge in the form of deadstock. There are various causes for deadstock, and some may be traced to supply chain and inventory management inefficiency. This research paper aims to understand th...
The global economy has experienced a downturn due to the COVID-19 epidemic, and the entire apparel industry has been hit hard. However, in the post-epidemic era, the digital trend of the world has become more pronounced. The virtual consumer market a...
The increasing resource pressure and the expanding amount of textile waste have been rising recycling as a clear priority for the fashion and apparel industry. However, textile recycling remains limited and is therefore a targeted issue in the forthc...
The circular economy is one of the crucial issues in fashion because the fashion industry is a major global polluter. Many consumers are adopting a more sustainable lifestyle and it shows in their buying preferences and behaviors. This study aims to...
This study explores how small and micro fashion and apparel enterprises (SMFAEs) conceptualize and structure social and environmental responsibility within an industry characterized by fragmented supply chains and limited institutional guidance. A qu...
This paper explores why and how dominant international social standards used in the fashion industry are prone to implementation failures. A qualitative multiple-case study method was conducted, using purposive sampling to select 13 apparel supply ch...
Cotton is a preferred textile fiber for apparel textiles and is used primarily for summer wear. However, cotton has drawbacks, such as poor wrinkle resistance, and therefore, blends of cotton with other fibers have gained acceptance in the industry....
The apparel consumer, one of the vital stakeholders in the apparel supply chain, has a significant role to play in moving the clothing industry in a sustainable direction. From purchasing and care practice to donation and disposal, every step of thei...
Greenwashing, the phenomenon of companies misleading consumers about their sustainability practices, is prevalent in the fashion industry. This study explores consumer opinions on greenwashing through analysis of social media discourse. Cognitive dis...
Global value chains (GVCs) are undergoing significant reconfiguration in a context of slower trade growth, rising geopolitical tensions and repeated supply chain disruptions. This article examines how these pressures have shaped the sourcing geograph...
3 December 2025
This study investigates the impact of social media marketing activities on customers’ behavioral engagement with fashion clothing brands in Pakistan. Drawing on the Stimulus–Organism–Response (S–O–R) framework, this stud...
Incorporating sustainability into the supply chain is becoming a key priority for many textile and apparel companies. For example, H&M, Patagonia, and The North Face have incorporated various approaches to enhance their levels of sustainable supp...
Current sustainability frameworks and tools to assess and track social and environmental impacts of textile and apparel (such as life cycle analysis) along the chain, although important, provide a narrow focus on metrics (such as a reduction in input...
The Brazilian fashion industry is the country’s second-largest generator of direct and indirect jobs. Despite Brazilian design being a world reference mainly for prints and summer-related collections, it is also the second most polluting indust...
This paper examines the digital transformation of the textile and fashion industry, focusing on the alignment with sustainability principles through the integration of Industry 4.0 technologies. The introduction highlights the urgency of transitionin...
As fashion mass customization has been developing rapidly in the recent decade, supply chain in apparel industry was required to be more flexible for meeting the need of quick response toward the dynamic changes in the fashion market. Forecast-based...
The textile and apparel (fashion) industry has been influenced by developments in societal socio-cultural and economic structures. Due to a change in people’s preferences from economic functionality to supra-functionality beyond economic value,...
This paper provides an overview of the main technologies currently being investigated in the textile industry as alternatives to contemporary fashion fabrics. The present status of the textile industry and its impact on the environment is discussed,...
The apparel industry causes environmental problems, particularly due to the shortening life cycle of garments and fast-fashion’s throw-away culture. The circular economy provides solutions to minimise and prevent these problems through innovati...
Sustainability has received widespread attention in both academia and industry, but there is still a paucity of research investigating the relationships between gender, consumer innovativeness, and clothing, as well as how they may influence sustaina...
As interest in sustainable fashion and localism mounts, there is a compelling need to foster purchasers’ trust in claims made by fashion businesses. Geographical indications (GIs) have proven successful not only in reducing consumers’ sea...
RFID is usually used for product recognition, object-level tracking, inventory visibility, logistics monitoring, authentication, and automated data capture for various supply chain industries. RFID can enable traceability, authentication (anti-counte...
The fashion industry has expanded at the expense of the environment. Consumption and environmental pollution both serve as a wake-up call to the global endeavour to adopt more socially and environmentally responsible behaviours. It implies, in partic...
Recently, fashion industries have introduced artificial intelligence to provide new services, and research to combine fashion design and artificial intelligence has been continuously conducted. Among them, generative adversarial networks that synthes...
Under the guidance of the “dual carbon” goal, the country has entered a new development period of low carbon and green, and brand building and value enhancement have become an important direction of the current market development. As a highly polluti...
This paper comprehensively reviews the extant literature on consumer behavior toward sustainable apparel as a pathway to sustainability. This literature review is based on journal articles from the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Through an in-d...
In today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive industrial environment, a new and emerging business model—fast fashion—has started a revolution in the apparel industry. Due to the lack of historical data, constantly changing fashion trends, and pr...
A significant proportion of waste generated by the fashion industry is either landfilled or incinerated, primarily due to the high cost and complexity of collecting and separating mixed textile materials. While research in textile recycling often emp...
Production, marketing, and consumption of fashion products result in negative environmental impacts due to the massive production volume of fashion items. However, there is limited literature on how the fashion industry integrates sustainability-rela...
Second-hand clothing is increasingly promoted as a sustainable alternative to reduce the fashion industry’s environmental impact, yet evidence on why consumers purchase second-hand apparel remains fragmented across disciplines. This literature...
The fashion apparel industry is facing an increasingly growing demand, compounded by the short sales lifecycle and strong seasonality of clothing, posing significant challenges to inventory management in the retail sector. Despite some retailers like...
Traceability and monitoring of industrial processes are becoming more important to assure the value of final products. Blockchain technology emerged as part of a movement linked to criptocurrencies and the Internet of Things, providing nice-to-have f...
Digital innovations have significantly transformed the marketing landscape, with visual technology solutions having become mainstream in the fashion industry approximately a decade ago. Digital technology offers a range of benefits to online fashion...
The fashion industry is facing increasing challenges related to textile waste and environmental pollution, driving the need for sustainable material innovations. Bacterial cellulose (BC), a biodegradable and non-polluting biomaterial, has emerged as...
Digitalization and big data are currently moving many industries forward and creating value-added efficiency improvements, new services, and business models. One area in industrial digitalization is RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and related s...
The ethics of the fast fashion industry have been called into question with the emergence of new consumption paradigms, such as anti-consumerism and sustainable consumption. This study aims to explore the conceptual structure of fast fashion avoidanc...
22 April 2024
In the context of the Fashion Apparel Industry 4.0, a transformative evolution is directed towards the Online Apparel Mass Customization (OAMC) strategy, which provides efficient and personalized apparel product solutions to consumers. A critical cha...
What might it mean to “wear the good?” This question arises from a dominating trend in contemporary spaces where objects such as clothing are employed to communicate desires and demonstrate ethical commitments to social causes, political institutions...
8 October 2021
The fashion industry has been continuously growing over the years, yet it is an industry that was greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of the study was to determine the factors affecting buying behavior of Filipinos towards clothing...
With the rise of the green economy and the increasing awareness of consumer sustainability, green marketing has become a global competition strategy adopted by the textile and apparel industry. This study explores key factors and challenges in green...
In the context of new retail, the development of omni-channels is flourishing. The entry threshold for the clothing industry is low, and the popularity of online shopping has, to some extent, reduced consumers’ perception of the authenticity of...
The global secondhand apparel industry, valued at USD 256B in 2025, is expanding rapidly. The growing acceptance of secondhand fashion and advancements in retail technology have driven millions of individuals to resell, yet little research has analyz...
With the growing global awareness of sustainable development, the impact of “fast fashion” on the environment has drawn much attention. This study investigated 365 fast fashion consumers with higher-than-average spending on fast fashion g...
The textile and apparel industry is widely recognized for its negative impact on the environment and society, and China is one of the largest fashion-consumption markets worldwide. There has been a growing awareness and effort to address these concer...
This research study aims to achieve a developing country’s sustainable development in the clothing industry by exploring consumer behavior to a willingness to purchase organic cotton clothing (OCC) and apparel retailers’ responsibilities....
31 March 2025
In recent years, the fashion industry has undergone a significant transformation driven by digital innovations, particularly with the emergence of the digital retail theater (DRT). A DRT integrates augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and 3D...
This work, set in the context of the apparel industry, proposes an action-oriented disclosure tool to help solve the sustainability challenges of complex fast-fashion supply chains (SCs). In a search for effective disclosure, it focusses on actions t...
Vinted is a free digital sharing economy platform where individuals buy and sell second-hand apparel. It is an example of industry 4.0 that promotes an innovative and successful business model while favoring sustainable fashion consumption. Gen Z con...
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