In the era of globalization, clothes are the result of a complex production process in which the origin of raw materials, places of processing and consumption are often extremely distant from each other. The choices of companies and consumers end up having economic, environmental, social and ethical consequences that are increasingly complex and difficult to control by the individual socioeconomic actor. “Economia del Tessile Sostenibile” by Elena Pagliarino, Monica Cariola and Valentina Moiso outlines this world in which a new sensitivity is slowly making its way, according to which beauty and goodness, aesthetics and ethics are reconcilable, necessary and strategic concepts for the future of fashion and the planet. The text also presents a case of innovation in the field of the Textile and Clothing Supply Chain (T&A): the use of rustic Italian wool, waste from sheep farming, for the production of tailored and knitwear garments.
