Overview
- Is the very first book in the area of sustainable luxury textiles and fashion
- Promotes and disseminates the concepts of sustainable luxury and luxury, innovation and design potential in relation of textiles and fashion
- Deals with areas on luxury and consumption, luxury and entrepreneurship, luxury and management
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
The second volume of handbook explores different dimensions of the sustainable luxury textiles and fashion, broadly based on the following topics:
Sustainable luxury
Luxury and consumption
Luxury, innovation and design potential
Luxury and entrepreneurship
Sustainable Luxury Management
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Miguel Angel Gardetti Ph.D. He has been the head of the Centre for Study of Corporate Sustainability (IESC) since its foundation in 2002, and he also holds the same position at the Center for Study of Sustainable Luxury. He is head professor in MBA and master’s programs both in Argentina and abroad. He has provided training within frameworks of executive education and in house programmes to CEOs and Corporate Managers both from domestic and multinational companies in Argentina and Latin America. As to Luxury and Sustainability topics, he lectured at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain), one of the top Business Schools in Europe. Moreover, he was a speaker in Identidad Uruguay, an event organised by the Universidad de Empresa (Montevideo), with a lecture on Fashion, Luxury, and Sustainability. He was the creator of the Best Performance in Sustainable Luxury in Latin America Award (at present evolving towards the Award in Sustainable Premium and Luxury at a global level). He developed also several publications in the area of sustainable luxury. He was a member of the United Nations Global Compact Promoting Group in Argentina and a member of its governance body –the Board of the Argentine Chapter of The Global Compact- for two consecutive terms. He was co-founder of the Global Compact Chair in Argentina, and he was also part of the task force that developed the “Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations Global Compact. He has also coordinated tasks for the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation (private sector arm of the World Bank), the Netherlands Development Organisation, the United Nations (New York), and the World Resources Institute (USA.)
Dr Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as a global sustainability consultant, based at Hong Kong. He gained his diploma, bachelors and masters in Textile Technology from premier institutes of India. He was awarded
doctorate from The Institute of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for his dissertation entitled,” Eco-functional Assessment of Grocery Shopping Bags” He also has more than seven years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, testing and sustainability evaluation of textiles and clothing materials. He was an outstanding student throughout his studies and bagged numerous awards and medals including many gold medals in his study period. He has more than 80 academic publications in various textiles and environmental journals to his credit. Additionally he has 2 patents, 5 books of chapter and over 25 books and numerous conference publications. He is acting as an editor, editorial board member and reviewer for many international peer-reviewed journals of textiles and environmental science disciplines. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Textiles and Clothing Sustainability journal, an open access journal of Springer. He is also the series editor of two books series of Springer namely Textile Science and Clothing Technology and Environmental Footprints and Eco-design.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Sustainable Luxury Textiles and Fashion
Book Subtitle: Volume 2
Editors: Miguel Angel Gardetti, Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-742-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-287-741-3Published: 28 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1263-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-981-287-742-0Published: 10 September 2015
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 161
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sustainable Development, Textile Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial and Production Engineering, Environmental Management