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. 2020 Jul 17;141:102010. doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2020.102010

Table 4.2.

Sustainable practices in sustainable design literature.

Area 3BL Details
Sustainable Design Social Sustainability Creating guidelines for fashion designers who want to design for sustainability;
-Improve clothes design for a long-time use;
-Soybean protein fibre fabrics may be the best one to meet the costumers’ needs among three eco-friendly materials, namely the organic cotton, lyocell and soybean protein fibre.
Economic Sustainability - Designing for disassembling to avoid mixed use of natural and synthetic fabrics;
-Designing for transformation to use similar raw materials;
-Developing a modular design architecture for recyclable apparel system.
Environmental Sustainability -Eco-design with the guidelines of ISO14062 standard;
-Controlling energy-efficient factors: choice of materials, style design and operation controlling;
-Using sustainable materials, like organic cotton, recycled fabrics, and traceable materials in eco-design.