Sustainable product design for Fashion Apparel: A preliminary analysis of Indian and Swedish fashion Apparel brands

摘要

Although the apparel industry is considered to be among the most polluting industries there is hope with the availability of a large number of sustainable product design strategies for fashion apparel. The present paper reviews the frameworks and models related to sustainable product design of fashion apparel. Further it develops a comprehensive checklist of sustainable product design strategies for fashion apparel, and examines their applicability among Swedish and Indian apparel brands. The article presents background information on fashion apparel industry and its environmental impact and a review of frameworks and models covering sustainable design for fashion apparel. Based on the review, a checklist has been developed by the present researcher. The checklist is used to conduct an exploratory analysis of a few Swedish and Indian fashion apparel brands on sustainability product design strategies and practices. Secondary data on the apparel brands was used to examine their sustainable product design strategies. It was found that the Swedish apparel brands selected for the study use several sustainable product design strategies as compared to the Indian brands.