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Green Fashion

Volume 2

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

    1. Environmental Services Manager, SGS Hong Kong Limited, Environmental Services Manager, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  2. Miguel Angel Gardetti

    1. Center for Studies on Sustainable Luxury, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  • Details the interesting insights in the area of green fashion
  • Highlights various new areas of green fashion such as Animal Ethics and Welfare in the Fashion and Lifestyle Industries, Responsible fashion council, etc
  • Presents interesting case studies in relevant sectors
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Unexplored Vegetable Fibre in Green Fashion

    • Sanjoy Debnath
    Pages 1-19

  3. Relationship Marketing in Green Fashion—A Case Study of hessnatur

    • Elisa Wagner, Cecilia Mark-Herbert
    Pages 21-47

  4. Animal Ethics and Welfare in the Fashion and Lifestyle Industries

    • Drude-Katrine Plannthin
    Pages 49-122

  5. Time for a Responsible Fashion Council?

    • Xenya Cherny-Scanlon, Kristin Agnes
    Pages 123-150

  6. Innovation for a Sustainable Fashion Industry: A Design Focused Approach Toward the Development of New Business Models

    • Anika Kozlowski, Cory Searcy, Michal Bardecki
    Pages 151-169

  7. Green Flame Retardants for Textiles

    • Asimananda Khandual
    Pages 171-227

  8. Potent Polyphenolic Natural Colorants Derived from Plants as Eco-friendly Raw Materials for the Dyeing Industry

    • Shahid-ul-Islam, Faqeer Mohammad
    Pages 229-247
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About this book

This book details the crux of green fashion, addressing various environmental aspects and discussing the importance of sustainable fashion in the apparel industry. It addresses various important topics such as Relationship marketing in green fashion, Animal Ethics and Welfare in the Fashion and Lifestyle Industries, Green Flame retardants, etc.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • Environmental Services Manager, SGS Hong Kong Limited, Environmental Services Manager, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

  • Center for Studies on Sustainable Luxury, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Miguel Angel Gardetti

About the editors

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as Environmental Services Manager-Asia, 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 75 academic publications in various textiles and environmental journals to his credit. Additionally he has 2 patents, 2 books of chapter and over 20 books and numerous conference publications. He is acting as an editor, editorialboard 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 of Springer. Additionally, he is one of the directors of Textile and Bioengineering Informatics Society, (TBIS) which is a charitable organization created to foster, develop and promote all aspects of science and technology in bioengineering of materials, fibers and textiles. 


Dr. Miguel  Angel  Gardetti  has been the head of the Center 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 has provided training within frameworks of executive education and in house programmes to CEOs and corporate managers from both domestic and multinational companies in Argentina and Latin America. In the field of textiles, fashion and sustainability, he has published intensely, for example, the special issue of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship on Textiles, Fashion and Sustainability and a book titled Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles; Values, Design, Production and Consumption.  Miguel 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.


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