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American Culture: Fashion and Sustainability

Merritt, Kelsey Ann
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525679103485635

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2018, BA, Kent State University, College of the Arts / School of Fashion.
"American Culture: Fashion and Sustainability" is a study identifying and understanding how American fashion has impacted the traditional apparel industry of certain regions of the world based on a,qualitative case study. Research conducted in India, Germany, and America reveal how culture, sustainability and fashion are innately related. However, it is the same fashion industry formed in the United States that is destroying culture on a global scale in the name of fast fashion. Through primary research including observations, interviews, and surveys, and secondary research, the researcher found that sustainability and craft are widely different in various countries, but are all impacted by fast fashion. The recommended solution is to introduce a collaborative, closed loop sustainable fashion system into businesses. The passion behind this research is based on of revealing how the fast fashion industry is destructive on a global scale. The preliminary findings are if the United States were to make sustainable fashion mainstream instead of fast fashion then cultures would be celebrated rather than consumerism.
Uma Krishnan, Dr (Advisor)
Perrine William (Other)
Noel Palomo-Lovinski (Committee Member)
Catherine Leslie, Dr (Committee Chair)
74 p.
Design; Fine Arts; Marketing; Sustainability
American fashion; German fashion; Indian fashion; fast fashion; culture; sustainability; sustainable fashion; triple bottom line; qualitative case study; fashion; fashion industry

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  • Merritt, K. A. (2018). American Culture: Fashion and Sustainability [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525679103485635

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Merritt, Kelsey. American Culture: Fashion and Sustainability. 2018. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525679103485635.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Merritt, Kelsey. "American Culture: Fashion and Sustainability." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1525679103485635

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