With essays that problematize issues such as ethical fashion’s self-appointed morality, the first-world notion that the environment should take priority over human development, the conflict between business profit and ethics, the unintended agendas involved in consuming green cosmetics or ethical culinary trends, and the discursive strategies of denial of the extreme cruelty in the procurement of animal skin and fur for use in fashion, Fashion and Ethics applies its uncompromising scrutiny to all areas of fashion. Throughout, the volume forces readers to confront the question: Does ethical fashion go deep enough into challenging unethical behavior or is it just a charade of good intentions?
272 pages | 50 halftones | 9 x 9 | © 2014
Economics and Business: Business--Business Economics and Management Studies
Table of Contents
Introduction: A critique of the ethical fashion paradigm
Articles
Fashionable dilemmas
Austin Williams
Comme il faut-where ethics is not just a brand image but a brand essence: Reflections of the CEO
Sybil Goldfiner
Consumers’ perceptions of ‘green’: Why and how consumers use eco-fashion and green beauty products
Marie Cécile Cervellon and Lindsey Carey
Ethical fashion and the exploitation of nonhuman animals
John Sorenson
Global ethical culinary fashion and a local dish: Organic hummus in Israel
Rafi Grosglik
Aesthetic (dis)orders: Styling principles in fashion modeling
Patrícia Soley-Beltran
Fashion World – models and backstages
Miriam Tawil
From the Noticeboard
Conference Report
Endangered Species summit review, London, March 2011
Exhibition Review
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From Sidewalk to Catwalk
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, June 17-October 2, 2011
Book Reviews
The Myth of the Ethical Consumer
Timothy M. Devinney, Pat Auger, and Giana M. Eckhardt (2010)
Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption
Clive Barnett, Paul Cloke, Nick Clarke, and Alice Malpass (2011)
Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers
Giorgio Riello and Peter McNeil (eds) (2011)
Book Reports
Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital
Catherine Hakim (2011)
Israel Fashion Art – 1948-2008
Nurit Bat-Yaar (2010)
Fashion, Interior Design, and the Contours of Modern Identity
Alla Myzelev and John Potvin (eds) (2010)
Index