Slow fashion as a possible route to SDG 12 within the fashion industry

Abstract

As many may not know, the textile and fashion manufacture combined are the second largest polluting industries. This can mostly be traced back to their complicated supply chain, next to their growth focused business models. Although there have been approaches towards researching the topic, it seems like there is still an undiscovered potential of detecting what slow fashion designates as in regard of production and operation practices. The paper aims to pinpoint the main principles of slow fashion through a thorough literature review, with collecting relevant papers related to slow fashion in the database of SCOPUS. The research also conducts a content analysis from existing descriptions by experts, in order to reveal the possible dissimilarities and parallels in slow fashion and SDG 12 principles. The paper’s goal is to see whether slow fashion can act as a supporter of SDG 12’s main production aims within the fashion industry.