Education for apparel sustainability from perspectives of design students from differing cultural contexts

A review of digital fashion research: before and beyond communication and marketing

“…Even though research on Communication and Marketing is the most prolific one, research in the fashion domain is expanding to other topics. For instance, the category Design and Production -D&P demonstrates the increased interest of the research field on how manual processes are replaced by digital ones: manual processes of extracting colour palettes have been substituted by automatic ones (Lai & Westland, 2020), or the role and perception of designers and managers regarding sustainable issues, life-cycle, and the effects of digitalisation for pollution (DeLong, Casto, Min, & Lee, 2016).…”

“…The category Culture and Society -C&S shows instead the impact of fashion on society due to its strong cultural presence (Choi & Lewis, 2018) and it presents topics such as the role of educators in teaching new strategies to designers, to contribute to solve, for instance, sustainable issues (DeLong et al, 2016), to develop the fashion field and to increase its impact on the surrounding environment.…”

An analysis of the insertion of sustainability elements in undergraduate design courses offered by Brazilian higher education institutions: An exploratory study

“…The complexity level of sustainability subjects is an external challenge, as is the lack of demand driven by sustainable issues and a lack of incentives and/or recognition for companies to be sustainable. Sustainability concerns for the fashion industry are especially important since it is among the most polluting industries in the world (DeLong et al, 2016). Vezzani and Gonzaga (2017) demonstrated through an action research the importance of design professionals in the development of social sustainability projects.…”

Comparative Analysis of Foreign Models of Fashion Education

“…The article (Tan & Chon, 2016) outlines the process of educating highly skilled creative pattern cutters in Southeast Asia. The focus of paper (DeLong, Casto, Min, & Kyung Lee, 2016) is how American and Korean design students think about sustainable practices and design solutions. Publication (Yezhova, 2014) represent elaborated prognoses for innovative sewing industry development, necessary for the substantiation of the education content while preparing sewing specialists.…”