A global approach to sustainable fashion

Production and consumption have played an important role for the continuation of the human nature in every period of the world history. People who are fed by constant consumption which emerged after the Industrial Revolution, have started to consume for satisfy their own desires rather than their needs. As a result of this, consumption which means meeting their own needs has changed as a psychological satisfaction. Production and consumption grow rapidly. This growth has started to become a threat for the future of the world. This situation has increased the consumption of existing resources and it caused an increase in the consumption rate. These problems affect all people's lives in a negative way, and they show that measures must be taken for the future of the world. Sustainability is identified as protecting to be persistent while maintaining productivity and diversity. Its main purpose is providing to the minimize using source materials, while the extending the life span. The term of sustainable fashion has emerged as a solution for the problems which are the results of fast consumption in the textile and garment industry; and against the production of clothes which damage the ecological life, injustices which suffered by people who are in the production process, wastage of water and energy, unnecessary shopping. The thesis that analyzes the sustainable fashion discusses the Ecological Fashion, Fast Fashion, Slow Fashion, Recycling which are improved with sustainable fashion, Turkey's and other countries' attitudes towards sustainable fashion and suggestions about education and solution for a sustainable life.