Handbook of sustainable luxury textiles and fashion

Abstract

Introduction viii textiles is essential if we are to deeply engage with the process of sustainability…So, our challenge is to adjust sustainability paradigms and develop new ones that would fit the nature of the luxury textile and fashion industry, one of the sectors called “core luxury sectors” within the luxury framework. Luxury depends on cultural, economic or regional contexts. This transforms luxury into an ambiguous concept [14] and shows for some researchers such as, Scheibel [17], the absurd aspect of this industry. Christopher L. Berry in his work “The idea of Luxury” from 1994 [1]—one of the most interesting and comprehensive pieces on the concept of luxury particularly its intellectual history—establishes that luxury has changed throughout time and that it reflects social norms and aspirations.