Digital Fashion Technologies & Practices: Design Driven Sustainable Transition in Fashion Industry

Contemporary clothing manufacturing, purchasing and con-sumption models have made the fashion industry the sec-ond most polluting industrial sector. This contribution aims at analysing promising technologies, methodologies and practices that are tackling environmental sustainability issues related to the fast-fashion industry. The contribution analyses how, leveraging on technology innovation, the combination of tangible processes, such as the selection of production means and materials, and intangible practices, such as digital fashion, designers can contribute to the sustainable transi-tion of the fast-fashion sector mediating between customer expectations, production economy constrains and environ-mental sustainability.