Women, fashion, ethics

The research intends to study the changes that have taken place in the fashion sector where a virtuous model of production and consumption is spreading in open contrast, on the one hand, with purely ostentatious consumption styles and on the other with the "disposable" trend.

 Women often play (or have played) an important role not only by starting entrepreneurial and creative activities inspired by these principles but also by animating consumer groups, research centers, academies and universities, the media in order to encourage the circulation of information, the enhancement of realities that produce garments according to an ethical supply chain, the formation of specific professional figures, the birth of movements of opinion.

The aim is to focus on this variegated universe, trying to identify the most significant realities and protagonists in order to reconstruct a picture, as complete as possible, of the Italian situation.

Database on sustainable textile-clothing companies (ethical fashion) – As part of the project "The role of women in ethical fashion", the work of collecting and archiving information on companies that implement sustainable practices, in the broadest sense, has been resumed. The database is constantly updated.