Herausgeber_in: Forum for the Future, Levi Strauss & Co.
Kurzbeschreibung:
Climate change, population growth, and shortages of key resources are already affecting the industry and they will bring profound changes over the next 15 years. By 2025 there are expected to be another billion people living on this planet and twice as many elderly people. Climate change will have major impacts on agriculture and patterns of global land use. Many communities will change radically, affecting the needs of the industry’s customers and the availability of labour. Demand for energy, water and food will grow, prices are likely to rise, and control of resources will be a key political issue. Other factors will shape our world in less predictable ways. China, India and other emerging economies will change global patterns of trade and power and exercise a growing cultural influence. Technology will continue to transform our lives and businesses and create new opportunities – think of the impact the internet has had in the last 15 years. People’s attitudes to resource shortages, climate change and sustainability, and their levels of disposable income, will affect consumer demand. How governments act, or fail to act, on trade, economics, the environment and poverty, and how they coordinate action on these and other global issues will also have a huge impact. They cover a wide range of issues and pose some searching questions: The future is likely to be dramatically different from today. We have created four scenarios, exploring the challenges ahead for the fashion industry and its current business models.
- How will the industry react to shortages of cotton and other raw materials?
- How could the fashion workforce be affected by shifting supply chains and technological development?
- How might technology influence fashion and change the way it is produced and sold?
- How will people care for their clothes in a future of water shortages and high energy prices?
- How could reuse and remanufacturing of clothing develop as a response to higher demand and prices?
The four scenarios explore worlds where globalisation has progressed or gone into reverse and where society and its fashions change more rapidly than today.
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Umfang: 8
Sprache: Englisch
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