7 Books On Sustainable Fashion That Everyone Should Read
If you are an eco-conscious bookworm who loves fashion, these are the books you need to add to your TBR immediately
In a fast-paced digital world, trends change almost every week. With a heavily embellished new ‘core’ here and the latest ‘aesthetic’ there, going online means drowning in whatever is trending. But what does this mean for sustainable fashion? Choosing an eco-conscious lifestyle becomes intimidating when trends come and go in the blink of an eye. Well, it doesn’t have to be. I have compiled a list of must-read books on sustainable and ethical fashion, which not only open our eyes to the aspirational world of fashion but also guide us towards ethical consumption.
Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas
When it comes to holding up a mirror to the world’s most superficially beautiful industries, no one does it like Dana Thomas. In Fashionopolis, Thomas unravels the damage suffered at the hands of the clothing industry while simultaneously weaving a comprehensive guide to dressing with intention.
Slave to Fashion by Safia Minney
Global demand for ‘cheaper, faster’ has resulted in a staggering number of enslaved people and is what quite harrowingly keeps the fashion industry running. This unnecessary suffering is explored in Slave to Fashion, using design, personal stories, knowledge, and experiences to raise awareness of the hands that produce our clothes.
To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion is Making Us Sick — and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker
People who lean towards ethical consumption often are well-versed in how toxic the clothing business is. Still, we tend to overlook the clothes hiding in our closet, which are a part of the problem and inversely cause further issues. To Dye For reflects on the clothes that kill (literally) in this shocking exposé.
Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion by Clare Press
A delicious deep-dive into fashion history, Wardrobe Crisis: How We Went from Sunday Best to Fast Fashion is an insightful examination of the fashion system — from a time when we used to make our clothes to a time of fast fashion’s use-and-throw culture — narrated by an insider.
How to Break Up With Fast Fashion by Lauren Bravo
Lauren Bravo’s love for clothes exceeded all, but she soon realized that a relationship with clothes is the ultimate toxic love affair. In How to Break Up With Fast Fashion, she ends this relationship and urges her readers to do the same by embracing ethical fashion and shopping sustainably without sacrificing the most important thing — your style.
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber
Talking about the fashion industry’s insidious practices is like a broken record. It is as alarming as it is endless. There needs to be a change, and Aja Barber understands this. Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism is divided into two parts — learning and unlearning, exposing the reader to uncomfortable truths and then helping understand them to be better citizens rather than simply consumers.
Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
Sustainable fashion is a dream in a capitalist world, where brands work day and night to entice us to consume more. Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion delves into this world of consumerism and the intense allure of fashion that relentlessly hides a system of exploitation from our eyes.
