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20 resultsShowing papers similar to Microbiology Meets the Fashion World: A Paradigm Shift in Design Education and Practice Through Biotechnology
ClearBringing 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.
Analyzing Sustainability in Fashion Through Bio-Synthetic Materials
This review analyzes sustainability in the fashion industry through the lens of bio-synthetic materials, examining how synthetic biology and bioengineering can transform microbes into 'living factories' that produce sustainable textiles as alternatives to conventional synthetic fibers that contribute to microplastic pollution.
New perspectives in fashion sustainability through the use of bacterial cellulose
This review examines how bacterial cellulose can open new sustainability pathways for the fashion industry, exploring its potential as a bio-based material to reduce the sector's high environmental impact from accelerating production cycles and increasing textile waste.
Biomaterial Experimental Design Practices as an Strategy for Sustainable Fashion
This paper explores biomaterial design — including alternatives to synthetic polyester fibers — to drive sustainability innovation in the fashion industry. Reducing reliance on synthetic textiles like polyester could help decrease microplastic fiber pollution released during washing.
Regenerative Fashion Systems: Redefining Circularity in the Fashion and Textiles Industry
Researchers reviewed the limitations of circular fashion models and proposed a regenerative fashion systems framework that goes beyond waste reduction to actively restore biodiversity, rebuild soil health, and integrate nature-based solutions across design and supply chains using materials such as mycelium leather and algae-based fibers.
How can the fashion industry be sustainable? The use of immersive technology in fashion design for innovation, digital transformation, and sustainability
This study examines how immersive digital technologies can help the fashion industry adopt sustainable practices, exploring how digitised design and production processes can reduce environmental impacts including textile microplastic pollution.
Sustainable Fashion
This review of sustainable fashion examines how the textile industry's shift to fast fashion has accelerated environmental damage, including the shedding of synthetic microfibres — a major source of microplastic pollution in waterways — and argues that circular production models and consumer behaviour change are needed to reduce the industry's footprint. The paper is relevant because textile microfibres are among the most commonly detected microplastics in marine and freshwater environments.
SUSTAINABLE FASHION INDUSTRY: Why do we need a switch towards conscious consumption?
This thesis examines the fashion industry's environmental and social harms, including its significant contribution to microplastic pollution through synthetic textile washing, and argues for a shift toward more conscious consumer behavior. Fast fashion is one of the largest sources of synthetic microfibers entering waterways globally.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Good, the Bad, and the Sustainable: How Technology Has Changed and Continues to Change the World of Fashion, from Cotton Gin to Digital Clothes
This review examines how technology has driven the rise of fast fashion — one of the most polluting industries globally — and explores how it can also drive more sustainable practices. Fast fashion production and disposal are major sources of synthetic textile microfibers that enter waterways during washing and waste processing.
Developing a Lifecycle Framework for Textile Design Education
This study examines how textile design education must be fundamentally restructured to address the industry's role in generating 8-10% of global carbon emissions and 92 million tons of annual textile waste, including microplastic shedding from synthetic fibers. Through literature review and case studies of pioneering programs, the authors propose a four-stage integrated educational framework that cultivates systemic thinking and ethical responsibility in designers.
Design Thinking as a remedy to Fast-Fashion ecological issues
This theoretical design study explores how design thinking methodologies could be applied to address the ecological problems caused by fast fashion, including textile microfiber pollution. It is primarily a conceptual design framework paper rather than an empirical research study.
Slow Fashion in a Fast Fashion World: Promoting Sustainability and Responsibility
This study examines the "slow fashion" movement as a sustainable alternative to fast fashion, analyzing how different business models, consumer behaviors, and policy frameworks can shift clothing production and consumption toward more responsible practices. Slow fashion is directly relevant to reducing textile microfiber pollution, since synthetic clothing is a major source of microplastics in wastewater.
19 A Sustainable Business Model for the Fashion Sector
This book chapter reviews sustainable fashion business models that aim to reduce the fashion industry's environmental impact, including microplastic fiber pollution from synthetic clothing. Transitioning to more sustainable fashion production and material choices could significantly reduce the microfibers shed into wastewater during textile washing.
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.
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.