Papers

61,005 results
|
Article Tier 2

Rebirth: An Exploration of Circular Fashion

This review examines the concept of circular fashion as a response to fast fashion's unsustainable practices, critically evaluating how greenwashing has emerged as a mechanism to monetize eco-initiatives without genuine environmental benefit. The paper analyzes case studies of circular fashion brands and proposes criteria for distinguishing authentic circular economy practices from superficial marketing claims.

2024 The Boller Review 1 citations
Article Tier 2

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.

2020 Sustainability 484 citations
Article Tier 2

Linear Economy versus Circular Economy: New raw material

This paper examines the fashion industry's role in environmental sustainability and argues for a transition from linear to circular economic models. It highlights how the current take-make-waste approach generates massive textile waste, including synthetic microplastic fibers. A circular fashion economy would reduce both material waste and plastic pollution from textiles.

2022 Turk Turizm Arastirmalari Dergisi 4 citations
Article Tier 2

(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.

2023 Fashion and Textiles 61 citations
Article Tier 2

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.

2023 Circular Economy and Sustainability 15 citations
Article Tier 2

Towards circular fashion: Management strategies promoting circular behaviour along the value chain

This study explores how the fashion industry can shift from a wasteful linear model to a circular one through better management strategies, including sustainable materials, take-back programs, and on-demand manufacturing. The fashion industry is a major source of microplastic pollution through synthetic fiber shedding during production, washing, and disposal. Adopting circular practices could significantly reduce the amount of microplastic fibers entering the environment from textiles.

2024 Sustainable Production and Consumption 43 citations
Article Tier 2

Greenwashing and sustainable fashion industry

This study examines how greenwashing practices undermine the fashion industry's transition to sustainable circular economy, demonstrating that transparent and honest sustainability communication is essential for regaining consumer trust.

2022 Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry 168 citations
Article Tier 2

Digital Transformation for Fashion and Luxury Brands

Researchers examined how digital transformation is reshaping the marketing, distribution, and brand positioning strategies of fashion and luxury companies in an increasingly online marketplace. The book provides a framework for understanding how heritage brands adapt to e-commerce, social media, and data-driven consumer engagement.

2024 13 citations
Article Tier 2

Circular Economy and Waste in the Fashion Industry

This review analyses existing EU legislative measures relevant to sustainability and circular economy transitions in the fashion industry, a sector associated with high water and energy consumption, chemical pollution, and microplastic generation from textiles. The authors evaluate the EU Circular Economy Action Plan of 2015 and its revised waste framework as tools for driving systemic change in fashion industry practices.

2019 Laws 129 citations
Article Tier 2

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.

2025 Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness
Article Tier 2

A call for a fashion pact: challenges and opportunities for circular economy in the brazilian fashion industry

This paper examines the challenges and opportunities for circular economy practices in Brazil's fashion industry, which produces large amounts of textile waste. Textiles are a major source of microplastic fiber pollution, and transitioning to circular models could significantly reduce plastic emissions from clothing manufacturing and laundering.

2023 OBSERVATÓRIO DE LA ECONOMÍA LATINOAMERICANA 2 citations
Article Tier 2

Business strategy and innovative models in the fashion industry: Clothing leasing as a driver of sustainability

Researchers explored clothing leasing as a circular business model that could reduce the fashion industry's environmental footprint, which ranks among the largest sources of global pollution. Using multicriteria analysis, they evaluated the sustainability potential of leasing compared to the traditional fast-fashion model of producing and discarding garments. The study suggests that leasing-based models could meaningfully reduce textile waste and resource consumption in the fashion sector.

2024 Business Strategy and the Environment 26 citations
Article Tier 2

SIGNALING SUSTAINABILITY IN FASHION PROCUREMENT : An Empirical Examination of Information Asymmetry and Firm Archetypes Using Signaling Theory

Researchers applied Signaling Theory to analyze how 225 fashion firms use sustainability signals such as certifications, audits, supplier codes of conduct, and traceability systems to reduce information asymmetry in procurement, finding that only 21% adopt costly, verifiable signals.

2025 KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Article Tier 2

Can fashion be sustainable? Trajectories of change in organizational, products and processes, and socio-cultural contexts

This article provides a comprehensive framework for understanding sustainability in the fashion industry across three key dimensions: organizational change, innovation in products and processes, and socio-cultural transformation. Researchers analyzed how shifts in management practices, materials science, and consumer behavior collectively shape the industry's sustainability efforts. The study highlights that meaningful progress requires coordinated action across all three dimensions rather than isolated initiatives.

2024 Sustainability Science Practice and Policy 17 citations
Article Tier 2

Fashionable Ethics: Exploring Ethical Perspectives in the Production, Marketing, and Consumption of Fashion

Researchers compiled a special collection of studies examining ethical issues in fashion production, marketing, and consumption through the lens of established ethical theories and frameworks. The work highlights how the industry must balance social justice with environmental responsibility, including concerns like plastic waste and greenwashing.

2024 Journal of Business Ethics 13 citations
Article Tier 2

Analysis on the Sustainable Development Strategy of Fast Fashion Company

This study examines sustainable development strategies for global fast fashion companies, systematically analysing environmental and social challenges caused by the industry's resource-intensive and wasteful practices.

2025 Academic journal of management and social sciences
Article Tier 2

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.

2025
Article Tier 2

Fundamental Challenges and Opportunities for Textile Circularity

Researchers conducted qualitative research with textile industry stakeholders to identify fundamental challenges in transitioning to a circular economy. The study highlights urgent needs including standardized definitions to prevent greenwashing, improved sorting and recycling systems for post-consumer textiles, and innovations in mechanical recycling to maintain material value and reduce environmental pollution from textile waste.

2024 Sustainability 11 citations
Article Tier 2

Valuing Modern Technologies to Boost the Circular Economy in the Fashion Industry

This study examines how modern technologies can support circular economy principles in the fashion industry, focusing on reuse, repair, reconditioning, and recycling strategies to reduce plastic and textile pollution.

2024 Proceedings of the ... International Conference on Business Excellence
Review Tier 2

Human Perceptions of Recycled Textiles and Circular Fashion: A Systematic Literature Review

A systematic literature review of 100+ studies on recycled textiles and circular fashion found that consumers generally hold positive attitudes toward sustainability benefits but are deterred by perceived quality risks, with emotional and functional value perceptions varying by product type.

2020 Sustainability 116 citations
Review Tier 2

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.

2023 Autex Research Journal 8 citations
Article Tier 2

Circular Economy Practices in Fashion Design Education: The First Phase of a Case Study

Researchers examined whether circular economy principles are integrated into Fashion Design Technician courses in Portugal, using documentary analysis and a questionnaire survey of 40 educators. The study assessed curriculum coverage of sustainability and circularity concepts, identifying the degree to which fashion education addresses textile microplastic pollution and waste reduction as part of professional training.

2025 Sustainability 2 citations
Article Tier 2

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.

2023 Eastern-European Journal of Enterprise Technologies 13 citations
Article Tier 2

The current situation of fast fashion industry and how to reduce the waste

This paper reviews the environmental problems caused by the fast fashion industry and evaluates current and emerging solutions including circular economy design and advanced recycling technologies. The authors argue that traditional waste disposal is no longer adequate for the volume of textile waste generated. Transitioning to circular fashion models could reduce the textile fiber microplastics that wash off synthetic clothing into waterways.

2023 Advances in Economics Management and Political Sciences 2 citations