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Clear(Un)Sustainable transitions towards fast and ultra-fast fashion
Researchers developed a framework to analyze the sustainability tensions within the fashion industry, showing that while established brands are adopting green initiatives and new business models, the simultaneous rise of ultra-fast fashion is creating major negative environmental and social impacts that offset these gains. The study highlights the complexity of achieving genuine sustainability transitions in an industry driven by competing institutional pressures.
From Simplistic to Systemic Sustainability in the Textile and Fashion Industry
This paper is not about microplastic pollution. It examines sustainability challenges in the textile and fashion industry, arguing that current approaches are simplistic and insufficient. It proposes systemic solutions focused on circular value retention and sufficiency-based consumption to address waste, resource depletion, and pollution from fast fashion.
Fashion industry: exploring the stages of digitalization, innovative potential and prospects of transformation into an environmentally sustainable ecosystem
This study analyzes the digital transformation of the fashion industry, identifying the stages of digitalization and the potential to shift from a linear to a circular production model to address mounting raw material shortages and environmental impacts. The authors propose an ecosystem-based digital platform as a framework for sustainable industry transformation.
Sustainability trends and gaps in the textile, apparel and fashion industries
Researchers conducted a 20-year systematic review of sustainability in the fashion and textile industry, identifying consumer behavior, circular economy practices, and supply chain transparency as the three main research themes. The review highlights that synthetic textile fibers — a major source of microplastic pollution — are embedded in a complex industry that still lacks coherent sustainability standards across its global supply chains.
Trends and Gaps in Sustainable Fashion Research: a Bibliometric Analysis
Researchers conducted a bibliometric analysis of 764 sustainable and fast fashion articles published between 2007 and March 2025 using Web of Science, applying co-citation, co-occurrence, and clustering techniques to map thematic trends, finding rapid research growth after 2015 and accelerated output post-2020 across environmental science, business, consumer studies, and textile engineering.
Role of Consumer Attitudes and Policies in Increasing Sustainable Buying Habits in the Fashion Industry
Researchers surveyed consumers across diverse regions and demographics to assess attitudes toward sustainable fashion purchasing, finding that policies, financial barriers, geographic setting, and physical barriers all influence willingness to choose sustainable over fast fashion products.
Sustainability Challenges of the Textile Industry
This review examines the environmental, social, and economic sustainability challenges facing the global textile industry, including high water consumption, chemical pollution, labor exploitation, and the compounding effects of fast fashion on waste generation and resource depletion. The authors argue that addressing these interconnected challenges requires a multidimensional approach spanning supply chain transparency, regulatory reform, and shifts in consumer behavior.
Comparative Study on Global Sustainable Strategies in Fast Fashion Operations
This study adopts an international comparative perspective to examine sustainable operational strategies in the fast fashion industry, analyzing policy frameworks, corporate innovations, and consumer behavior across European, North American, and Asian markets. The research highlights regional differences in regulatory approaches and proposes that policy coordination, technological innovation, and shifts in consumption patterns are critical for achieving industry-wide sustainability.
A Plan to Secure Environmental Sustainability Through Digital Transformation of the Fashion Industry: Focusing on Fashion Design and Smartization of the Manufacturing Process
This study examines how digital transformation and smart manufacturing technologies in the fashion industry can reduce environmental pollution, proposing a framework for integrating digital design tools and process optimization to improve sustainability across the fashion clothing supply chain.
Microbiology Meets the Fashion World: A Paradigm Shift in Design Education and Practice Through Biotechnology
This study examines how integrating microbiology and biotechnology into fashion design education can shift the industry away from its fossil-fuel-dependent, fast-fashion model, arguing that transdisciplinary approaches using living organisms and bio-based materials represent a promising path toward sustainability in one of the world's most polluting industries.
Bringing Sustainable Practices, Fashion Shows, and Sociological Insights Together to Reinvigorate Sustainable Fashion Education
This study explores how sustainable practices, fashion shows, and sociological perspectives can be integrated to strengthen sustainable fashion education. Researchers reviewed current challenges the fashion industry faces in adopting sustainability and examined how virtual fashion experiences present both opportunities and obstacles. The study highlights the role of fashion education in promoting environmental awareness, including reducing reliance on synthetic materials that contribute to microplastic pollution.
Mapping sustainable options in the fashion industry: A systematic literature review and a future research agenda
This systematic review examined 187 studies on sustainable practices in the fashion industry, which is a major contributor to microplastic pollution through synthetic textiles. Researchers classified sustainable solutions across the purchase, use, and disposal phases of clothing and identified key gaps in current knowledge. The study suggests that addressing fashion industry practices is critical for reducing textile-related microplastic contamination in the environment.
Exploring Consumer Engagement in Response to Sustainable Social Media Content and Brand Identity of Fashion Brands
Researchers investigated how sustainable social media content and brand identity affect consumer engagement in the fashion industry, finding that social media posts alone are insufficient to drive meaningful engagement without a coherent sustainable brand identity.
Sustainability Complexities in Supply Chains: A Qualitative Study utilizing Social Systems Theory
Researchers conducted 26 semi-structured interviews with sustainability managers across firms in textiles, beverages, coffee, food, cosmetics, and chemical industries to explore supply chain sustainability complexities using social systems theory as a theoretical framework. The study identifies the distinct sustainability complexities perceived by firms in different sectors and offers managerial guidance for recognizing and addressing these complexities as a first step toward sustainable supply chain management.
The Business of Sustainability in Fashion: Following the Threads
This book examines how the fashion industry can pursue sustainability, exploring the interconnected environmental, economic, and social challenges of making apparel production more responsible and reducing plastic fiber pollution.
Research on the Business Operating and Development of Sustainable Fashion Industry
This study examined the business operations and development trajectory of the sustainable fashion industry by analyzing companies across overall market performance, sales, pricing strategies, business models, and manufacturing, identifying how new materials and upgraded processes are opening new commercial opportunities.
Fast fashion revolution: Unveiling the path to sustainable style in the era of fast fashion
Researchers examined the relationship between fashion orientation and fast fashion purchasing behavior, including how attitudes toward sustainable clothing consumption moderate these choices. They found that fashion orientation strongly influences purchase intention and actual buying behavior, but that sustainable clothing awareness can temper fast fashion consumption. The study highlights the environmental costs of fast fashion, including microplastic-generating textile waste, and calls for greater consumer education.
Technology integration to promote circular economy transformation of the garment industry: a systematic literature review
This systematic literature review examines how Industry 4.0 technologies can help transform the garment industry from a linear to a circular economy model. Researchers found that digital technologies can address environmental pollution and excess supply issues while enabling market digitization, consumer personalization, and supply chain transparency. The study highlights both the advantages and remaining challenges of integrating technology for sustainable garment industry development.
Sustainable Decision-Making in the Fashion Industry : How to influence the fashion industry to adopt more sustainable packaging solutions
This study examined how different actors in the fashion industry make sustainability decisions, noting that the industry is responsible for an estimated 20-35% of microplastics in the ocean from synthetic fiber shedding. The study explores how manufacturers, retailers, and consumers can be influenced to make more environmentally responsible choices.
Corporate Social Responsibility Influencing Sustainability within the Fashion Industry. A Systematic Review
This systematic review of CSR in the fashion industry found that sustainability efforts focus primarily on eco-friendly production, supply chain innovation, and worker safety. Actions linking CSR to sustainability operate across micro, meso, and macro levels, with brand equity, culture, supply chain management, and human rights emerging as key themes.
Fostering Sustainable Fashion Innovation: Insights from Ideation Tool Development and Co-Creation Workshops
This paper explores design tools and co-creation workshops for generating sustainable fashion product innovations to reduce the fashion industry's environmental footprint. Sustainable fashion development is relevant to microplastic pollution because synthetic textile washing is a major source of microfiber release into waterways.
Trends in the Fashion Industry. The Perception of Sustainability and Circular Economy: A Gender/Generation Quantitative Approach
This study surveyed consumer perceptions of sustainability and circular economy concepts in the fashion industry across gender and generational groups, finding significant differences in awareness and willingness to adopt sustainable purchasing behaviors.
Life cycle assessment in fashion industry: a systematic review
This systematic review of life cycle assessments in the fashion industry (2010-2024) found persistent methodological inconsistencies that undermine the reliability of sustainability claims. The review identifies microplastic emissions from textiles as a growing but poorly incorporated impact category, highlighting a gap in understanding the full environmental footprint of clothing.
The Feasibility of Full Sustainability in the Fashion Industry
This study investigates the feasibility of full sustainability in the fashion industry, examining the sector's carbon footprint, water pollution, and microplastic contamination to assess whether comprehensive environmental improvement is achievable.