Revalue sartorial culture for a circular economy The thread of ethics, from a designed needle towards a sustainable horizon

Abstract

This study raises the role that sartorial culture can play in slowing the impact of environmental pollution caused by the fashion industry. The objective is to transform design education with an ecological interdisciplinary pedagogy. The methodology focuses on reviewing and analysing the existing literature on the topic, examining proposals from experts and sectoral institutional contributions. The results highlight the importance of a circular approach in fashion, encouraging reuse, recycling, and extending the useful life of garments. Within the framework of a New Bauhaus – arising from the South-South – the aim is to promote conscious and sustainable fashion that integrates aesthetics, functionality, and sustainability under a drive towards circularity, social inclusion, and fair trade, where Fashion businesses make their footprint transparent. It is proposed to revalue the art of tailoring, sewing techniques and the craft, combining them with technology that allows maintaining quality and innovating in the design and production process in such a way that a search for synergy between science, technique, art and service within a circular economy, where the protagonists reflect on the manufacturing processes and the negative impact of excessive consumption that significantly affects the environment.