SUSTAINABLE FASHION TERMINOLOGY
Alphabetized list of relevant sustainable fashion terminology:
Blockchain
Blockchain technologies provide transparency and traceability across supply chains in the fashion sector by creating a decentralized, unchangeable digital ledger of a garment’s life cycle, starting from the sourcing of raw materials.
CDFA
Circular Economy
A systems solution framework that tackles global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, waste, and pollution. It is based on three principles, driven by design: eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Deadstock
Deadstock refers to unsold and unused garments, materials, inventory, and other items from previous seasons or collections in the fashion industry.
CFDA
Degrowth
The term “Degrowth” challenges the conventional wisdom that economic growth is the ultimate measure of prosperity and well-being. It proposes that, for the sake of our planet and equitable social structures, we need to intentionally scale back production and consumption, and instead focus on sustainability, well-being, and social justice.
CFDA
Linear Economy
An economy in which finite resources are extracted to make products that are used - generally not to their full potential - and then thrown away ('take-make-waste').
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Recycle
Transform a product or component into its basic materials or substances and reprocessing them into new materials.
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Regenerative Production
Regenerative production provides food and materials in ways that support positive outcomes for nature, which include but are not limited to: healthy and stable soils, improved local biodiversity, improved air and water quality.