Designing useful fashion: a new conceptual model of the garment lifetime

dc.contributor.authorCramer, Jo
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-30T11:25:37Z
dc.date.available2022-11-30T11:25:37Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers how research into clothing lifetimes and consumer practices can be integrated into a garment lifecycle assessment model, to facilitate a reorientation of fashion design from design for sustainable products to design for the conditions of sustainability (after Fry, 1994). Drawing on the research of Payne (2011a) and Klepp (2001), a revised Garment Lifetime Diagram is proposed that segments the use phase to provide a more holistic understanding of the garment lifecycle. By making visible the detail within the phase of use, the aim is to show how designers might foster sustainable clothing use practices through the design decisions they make. In particular, how design might encourage extended garment use. The resulting diagram of a single garment lifetime challenges the popular approach to sustainability through extended use that describes garments with multiple lives (Fletcher, 2008). Arguably, defining the garment lifetime as ownership, reinforces what has been criticised as the inherently anthropocentric viewpoint of sustainable development (Fry, 2009). Instead, the notion of ‘custody’ emerges to describe temporary possession of a living garment.en
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-7983-3125-9
dc.identifier.urihttps://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/17754
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-16541
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartof10.14279/depositonce-9253
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subject.ddc500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematiken
dc.subject.ddc600 Technik, Technologieen
dc.subject.ddc300 Sozialwissenschaftenen
dc.subject.othersustainable fashionen
dc.subject.otherdesign for longevityen
dc.subject.othergarment lifetimeen
dc.subject.otherclothing practicesen
dc.titleDesigning useful fashion: a new conceptual model of the garment lifetimeen
dc.typeConference Objecten
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.editorNissen, Nils F.
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.editorJaeger-Erben, Melanie
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameUniversitätsverlag der TU Berlinen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBerlinen
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend181
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart175
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.proceedingstitlePLATE – Product lifetimes and the environment : 3rd PLATE Conference, September 18–20, 2019 Berlin, Germany
tub.accessrights.dnbfreeen
tub.affiliationFak. 4 Elektrotechnik und Informatik::Inst. Hochfrequenz- und Halbleiter-Systemtechnologien::FG Transdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitsforschung in der Elektronik
tub.affiliation.facultyFak. 4 Elektrotechnik und Informatik
tub.affiliation.groupFG Transdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitsforschung in der Elektronik
tub.affiliation.instituteInst. Hochfrequenz- und Halbleiter-Systemtechnologien
tub.publisher.universityorinstitutionUniversitätsverlag der TU Berlinen

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