Critically reflect on your role in progress towards responsible fashion, focus on one or two of the UN’s (2015) sustainable development goals

MOD007985 What is the real price tag on fashion? 010 Individual Portfolio Template 3000 words

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1         Part 1 Individual reflection on fashion and clothing.................................................................................. 3

1.1         My clothes inventory.......................................................................................................................... 3

1.2         My relationship with clothes............................................................................................................... 4

1.3         Reflection and evaluation of my role in the progress of fashion and clothing consumption towards the SDGs 5

2         Life Cycle Analysis of your chosen item of clothing................................................................................... 5

2.1         Description the chosen item of clothing and brand/company........................................................... 6

2.2         Life Cycle Assessment table................................................................................................................ 6

2.3         Evaluation of the main positive and negative impacts of your chosen item of clothing.................... 7

3         Reflection on the creative team work to take action for sustainability using social media...................... 7

3.1         Message behind our social media content......................................................................................... 8

3.2         Social media showcase........................................................................................................................ 8

3.3         My prior skills and experience from my course and life experience and how these skills contributed to team discussion        8

3.4         Teamwork discussion.......................................................................................................................... 8

4         Clothing brand/company’s response to the Sustainable Development Goals.......................................... 9

4.1         Company`s approach to SDGs, sustainability and ethics.................................................................... 9

5         References............................................................................................................................................... 10

Appendix 1: Clothes Diary................................................................................................................................ 11

1.Part 1 Individual reflection on fashion and clothing 

[[remove this text]] Informed reflection about the role of clothing in your personal life and your understanding of the implications of clothing consumption [[remove this text]]

1.1 My clothes inventory

[[remove this text]] Include a combination of picture and table and use the ThredUp Fashion

Footprint and Slavery footprint (week 1). [[remove this text]] 

Table 1 My clothes inventory

1.2 My relationship with clothes

[[remove this text]] Based on your clothes journal: Why clothing is important for you and what is your clothing identity? How would you evaluate your current acquisition; use and end of use consumer choices from the Sustainable Fashion Consumption model by Vladimirova et al, 2021. (weeks 2-3). [[remove this text]]

Table 2 Clothes Journal Entry

1.3.Reflection and evaluation of my role in the progress of fashion and clothing consumption towards the SDGs

[[remove this text]] Critically reflect on your role in progress towards responsible fashion, focus on one or two of the UN’s (2015) sustainable development goals and how you may take action towards sustainable fashion (weeks 1-11). [[remove this text]] 

2.Life Cycle Analysis of your chosen item of clothing 

[[remove this text]] Apply the life cycle assessment analytical tool for tracing the cycle of design, raw materials/procurement, manufacturing, transportation/distribution, retail, consumption and end of use of your chosen item of clothes. You will need to research what happens and the impact of the lifecycle stages so this should be well-evidenced with a range of referencing and sources. [[remove this text]]

2.1 Description the chosen item of clothing and brand/company

2.2 Life Cycle Assessment table 

[[remove this text]] Briefly introduce this table and the processes behind your chosen item of clothing. You can edit the lifecycle map below to fit your item of clothing. [[remove this text]                                                                                                              

Cotton cultivation and harvestin

Production of cotton fibre into cloth

Manufacture of T shirt

Shipping from

Chittagong, Bangladesh to Felixstowe, UK

Road transit to

Boo Hoo warehouse in Burnley

Warehoused in Burnley

Ordered from Boo Hoo

Home delivery to Cambridge 

End of use 

2.3 Evaluation of the main positive and negative impacts of your chosen item of clothing.

[[remove this text]] Conclude on the main positive and negative aspects you have found out [[remove this text]]

3.Reflection on the creative team work to take action for sustainability using social media

[[remove this text]] Your team will work together to develop social media content to encourage people to think about their own consumption of clothes. This could be to inform people about more sustainable choices or to raise some of the issues in the fashion and clothing industry. The content can be focused on specific aspects or SDGs. You can choose to reach out to a particular target segment/demographic group if you like, if you do so, specify this in your work. As a team, you will discuss and agree on a focus that is most likely to inspire people to think about their clothing consumption habits. [[remove this text]]

3.1 Message behind our social media content

[[remove this text]] Explain the main message behind the social media content developed by your team clearly showing your evidence and references. Discuss why your interdisciplinary team chose the aspect or UN (2015) sustainable development goal using references for social media content creation. [[remove this text]] 

3.2 Social media showcase

[[remove this text]] Include here some screenshots of the social media content developed in your team, explain how your team was creative in creating and/or sharing the content in the module community. [[remove this text]]

3.3 My prior skills and experience from my course and life experience and how these skills contributed to team discussion

[[remove this text]] Reflect on your skills and life experience and how these contributed within your team and how their different disciplinary and personal perceptions influenced your own ideas. [[remove this text]]

3.4 Teamwork discussion

[[remove this text]] Discuss the teamwork, how your team communicated and how you developed your knowledge and skills for this creative task. [[remove this text]]

4.Clothing brand/company’s response to the Sustainable Development Goals

[[remove this text]] Critically analyse how the clothing brand/company behind your item of clothing in Part 2 is responding to the UN’s (2015) sustainable development goals and make recommendations. [[remove this text]]

4.1.Company`s approach to SDGs, sustainability and ethics

[[remove this text]] Discuss the approach towards SDGs, sustainability and ethics for the clothing brand/company behind your item of clothing in Part 2. Use a range of sources for this, including references about the theory and also a range of sources about the company to give a balanced view – using just sources from the company/brand may be biased. [[remove this text]]

4.2 Analysis of two Sustainable Development Goals for the company or brand

[[remove this text]] Choose 2 of the UN’s (2015) sustainable development goals that are relevant to the clothing brand/company behind your item of clothing in Part 2. What are the main actions taken and problems or challenges faced by the company or brand in realising the two selected UN’s (2015)

sustainable development goals? [[remove this text]] 

(United Nations, 2015)

4.3 Recommendations for the clothing brand/company to contribute to the SDG

[[remove this text]] Make recommendations for the brand/company, this can be based on exploring ideas from theory and/or examples from other organisations. [[remove this text]]

References

Slavery Footprint (n.d.) Slavery Footprint [online] Available at: <https://slaveryfootprint.org/> [Accessed 27 July 2024].

ThredUp (n.d.) Thred Up Fashion Footprint [online] Available at:

<https://www.thredup.com/fashionfootprint//> [Accessed 27 July 2024].

United Nations. 2015. The 17 goals (Sustainable Development Goals) [online] United Nations. Available at:

<https://sdgs.un.org/goals> [Accessed 27 July 2020]. 

Vladimirova, K., Iran, S., Barber, J., Blazquez, M., Burcikova, M., Henninger, C. E., Johnson, E., Joyner Martinez, C., Laitala, K., Maldini, I., McNeil, L., Niinimaki, K., Onthank, K., Plonka, M., Sauerwein,

M., Wallaschkowski, S. 2021. Conceptual framework for Sustainable Fashion Consumption within the Circular Fashion System. International Research Network on International Fashion Consumption. June 2021. [video online] Sustainable Fashion Consumption. Available at: < https://sustainablefashionconsumption.org/projects/sfc-framework/ > [Accessed 22 July 2022].

Appendix 1: Clothes Diary