Handbook of Sustainable Luxury Textiles and Fashion, 1st ed. 2016 Volume 2 Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes Series
The second volume of handbook explores different dimensions of the sustainable luxury textiles and fashion, broadly based on the following topics:
Sustainable luxury
Luxury and consumption
Luxury, innovation and design potential
Luxury and entrepreneurship
Sustainable Luxury Management
Miguel Angel Gardetti Ph.D. He has been the head of the Centre for Study of Corporate Sustainability (IESC) since its foundation in 2002, and he also holds the same position at the Center for Study of Sustainable Luxury. He is head professor in MBA and master’s programs both in Argentina and abroad. He has provided training within frameworks of executive education and in house programmes to CEOs and Corporate Managers both from domestic and multinational companies in Argentina and Latin America. As to Luxury and Sustainability topics, he lectured at the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid, Spain), one of the top Business Schools in Europe. Moreover, he was a speaker in Identidad Uruguay, an event organised by the Universidad de Empresa (Montevideo), with a lecture on Fashion, Luxury, and Sustainability. He was the creator of the Best Performance in Sustainable Luxury in Latin America Award (at present evolving towards the Award in Sustainable Premium and Luxury at a global level). He developed also several publications in the area of sustainable luxury. He was a member of the United Nations Global Compact Promoting Group in Argentina and a member of its governance body –the Board of the Argentine Chapter of The Global Compact- for two consecutive terms. He was co-founder of the Global Compact Chair in Argentina, and he was also part of the task force that developed the “Management Responsible Education Principles” of the United Nations Global Compact. He has also coordinated tasks for the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation (private sector arm of the World Bank), the Netherlands Development Organisation, the United Nations (New York), and the World Resources Institute (USA.)
Dr Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as a global sustainability consultant, based at Hong Kong. He gained his diploma, bachelors and masters in Textile Technology from premier institutes of India. He was awarded
doctorate from ThIs the very first book in the area of sustainable luxury textiles and fashion
Promotes and disseminates the concepts of sustainable luxury and luxury, innovation and design potential in relation of textiles and fashion
Deals with areas on luxury and consumption, luxury and entrepreneurship, luxury and management
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Date de parution : 08-2015
Ouvrage de 161 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Date de parution : 08-2016
Ouvrage de 161 p.
15.5x23.5 cm