Abstract
The fashion industry is based on a bygone era in which time is linear and place is specific. This lack of relevancy results in global apparel production that is increasingly inefficient and destructive. The harmful practices of fashion manufacturing industry are no longer permissible in an age that has the knowledge capacity and technological innovations to avoid environmental damage and human inequalities. The deleterious manufacturing practices performed in developing countries contribute to the industry being under continued scrutiny, yet intensifying expectations for fast-paced delivery are at the root of these harmful practices. There is a tacit acknowledgement among fashion industry pundits that historical examples of manufacturing and commerce in the United States do not meet the demands of a society accustomed to instant access, constant change, and low prices. These slower and more traditional models of manufacturing and commerce will increasingly impede profitability in the contemporary marketplace as environmental and social issues continue.
 Thus, the fashion industry is in a state flux. Simultaneously, it must decrease destructive practices within the life cycle of clothing while remaining financially sustainable. This binary relationship elicits key questions that can help direct the industry toward a better future. What are the possibilities of domestic apparel manufacturing that utilizes innovative production methods, communication technology, and service systems that, in turn, encourage holistic, sustainable practices? What are the possibilities for and needs of designers who want to take full advantage of an evolving relationship between consumers and designers? In this study, particular attention is paid to new systems of production and distribution that will change the role of fashion designers for the future.
Highlights
Another example of our intellectual difficulty in thinking simultaneously about continuity and discontinuity, local and global, place and non-place, emerges in art and artistic creation in general
This paper offers a speculative Sustainable PSS (SPSS) construct as a reproducible closed-loop scenario that takes advantage of time and place as contextualized within a global society dominated by technology
The prescient vision of the fashion industry is shaped by the duality of clear social and environmental harm with the capacity of innovation, change, and motivation to design a better world
Summary
Another example of our intellectual difficulty in thinking simultaneously about continuity and discontinuity, local and global, place and non-place, emerges in art and artistic creation in general. PSS may gain appeal and subsequent implementation due to several factors that include mounting interest in domestic apparel manufacturing (Lee, Levy, Fen, & Yap, 2015), production machinery innovations that encourage small batch production, and the ubiquitous nature of communication technology that enables garment production from seemingly anywhere in the world This proposed network of an apparel design, production, manufacturing, retail, and disposal system would create an alternative to the fashion industry’s current practices that undermine efforts in sustainability, while leveraging the geography and human capital of the U.S This paper discusses global and local manufacturing as it relates to the current and evolving fashion industry. This paper offers a speculative SPSS construct as a reproducible closed-loop scenario that takes advantage of time and place as contextualized within a global society dominated by technology
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