Readings Pt. 2 Flashcards
The valuing of local resources and distributed economies
Slow Fashion:
Three lines of reflection
Transparent production systems with less intermediation between producer and consumer
Slow Fashion:
Three lines of reflection
Sustainable and sensorial products that have a longer usable life and are more highly valued than typical “consumables.”
Slow Fashion:
Three lines of reflection
More than a literal opposite to fast fashion.
Slow Fashion:
Definition
Identifies sustainable fashion solutions, based on the repositioning of strategies of design, production, consumption, use, and reuse
Slow Fashion:
Definition
Challenge existing hierarchies of “designer,” “producer,” and “consumer;”
Slow Fashion:
Approaches
Question the notion of fashion being concerned exclusively with the “new;”
Slow Fashion:
Approaches
Challenge fashion’s reliance on image
Slow Fashion:
Approaches
Present fashion as a choice rather than as a mandate
Slow Fashion:
Approaches
Highlight collaborative/cooperative work—providing agency especially to women
Slow Fashion:
Approaches
Think globally, act locally: identifies the local as a site of resistance against global culture, where consumers are assumed to have a sense of global responsibility
Slow Fashion:
Valuing of Local Resources and Distributed Economies
Utilization of localized physical and social resources can provide an alternative to standardization, centralization, and moreover, to identical products.
Slow Fashion:
Valuing of Local Resources and Distributed Economies
Ideas of “multi-local society” and a “distributed economy” where the global is comprised of a network of local systems.
Slow Fashion:
Valuing of Local Resources and Distributed Economies
Way of understanding a product from the knowledge of how it is made, through its raw material to the end product, rather than just through consumption
Slow Fashion:
Sustainable Sensoriality
Emotional attachment between human beings and clothes offers potential for designers wanting to explore fashion as a sustainable practice
Slow Fashion:
Sustainable Sensoriality
Transparency = fashion practices that do not seek to obscure the origins of the products and producers with a generic “de-signer” or brand name.
Slow Fashion:
Transparent Production Systems and Less Intermediation between Producers and Consumer
Smaller scale enterprises where the line between consumption and production, so well-defined in the global fashion industry, blends and morphs
Slow Fashion:
Transparent Production Systems and Less Intermediation between Producers and Consumer
Design facilitates mass production and rapid turnaround of new styles ensuring shorter product (market) life cycles and encouraging consumption for fashion’s sake rather than for real need”
Slow Fashion:
Transparent Production Systems and Less Intermediation between Producers and Consumer
A preference for internal control over manufacturing and distribution
Burberry Business Model:
Adjustments that resulted in success
The expansion of the product portfolio to include a wider customer base
Burberry Business Model:
Adjustments that resulted in success
The adoption of a multi-brand positioning,
Burberry Business Model:
Adjustments that resulted in success
Heavy reliance upon a small base of core products
Burberry Business Model:
Key Strategic Issues in 1997
A company-owned retail network based within non-strategic locations
Burberry Business Model:
Key Strategic Issues in 1997
An inconsistent wholesale distribution strategy with Burberry products being sold in a wide- range of retail environments of varying quality;
Burberry Business Model:
Key Strategic Issues in 1997