Sustainable Fashion, Migrants, Embroidery

"In a world grappling with the need to shift away from fast fashion's wasteful practices, this thought-provoking exploration shows how slow-growth 'solidarity ateliers' can challenge the widely accepted notions of both 'fashion' and 'social integration'."-- Page 4 of cover.

Alessandra Lopez y Royo (aka Alex Bruni) is a former university Reader with a PhD in Art History and Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS,) University of London. An activist committed to a diverse, inclusive and sustainable fashion, Alessandra has blogged and written for magazines and journals, and occasionally models. She is the author of Contemporary Indonesian Fashion: Through the Looking Glass (2019), the only English-language in-depth analysis of the fashion system in Indonesia, also published in this Bloomsbury series.

List of plates Preface Acknowledgments Prologue: A Mosaic of threads Part 1: Together we sew 1. Grainlines and selvedges 2. Disambiguating 'sustainability' Part 2: Fashion-ing in solidarity: Case studies in Socially Sustainable Eco-Fashion 3. Sartorie Sociali in Apulia and Sicily 4. When in Rome: Solidarity fashion meets embroidery art 5. The London/South-East experience: Social agendas and Brick Lane chic Part 3: Fashion-ing an archaeological sensibility 6. We are all fashion archaeologists now: Vintage clothes, upcycling and mending Epilogue: Cutting the selvedges Appendix: list of online sources Bibliography Index