FASHION’S FIBRES AS PLANETARY FLOWS
FASHION’S FIBRES AS PLANETARY FLOWSFashion Highlight journal, call for papers- issue 4
Guest Editors: Alice Payne and Anneke Smelik
Fibre, the basis of fashion’s materiality, is experiencing rising demand year on year, reflecting the insatiable desire for ‘more’ that defines the dominant fashion system. With an annual consumption of 116 million tonnes in 2022, close to a doubling in 20 years (Textile Exchange 2023), humanity’s appetite for fibre has never been more voracious.