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The author’s ancillary aim to the chapter is to emphasise how past lobbying efforts, in conjunction with tragic events within the fashion industry’s manufacturing processes have provided the catalyst for a new era within fast fashion. We call this observation: ‘the epiphanic sustainable fast fashion epoch’.
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Rutter, C., Armstrong, K., Blazquez Cano, M. (2017). The Epiphanic Sustainable Fast Fashion Epoch. In: Henninger, C., Alevizou, P., Goworek, H., Ryding, D. (eds) Sustainability in Fashion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51253-2_2
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