Shaping the Future of Fashion: A Research Companion (Routledge Research Companions in Business and Economics)

The book is a research-led companion for anyone seeking to understand how fashion futures are already being made.It brings together a curated collection of conceptual, empirical, and practice-based chapters that reflect fashion’s complexity while remaining grounded in rigorous and reflexive research. Organised around four interconnected themes: Innovation, Ecosystem, Education, and Values, the book explores how technological change, circular systems, community practices, pedagogy, and ethics collectively shape fashion today.Chapters explore innovation as a multidimensional process, rethink fashion as a network of relationships, position education as a driver of systemic change, and foreground values such as justice, care, and cultural accountability.Across the volume, dominant narratives rooted in extractive, exclusionary, and short-term thinking are critically challenged. Written in an accessible and engaging style, the book is designed for fashion educators, researchers, students, an