Copyright © 2015 by Michael Lavergne.

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Cover design by Diane McIntosh.

All images © iStock — Jeans: shenor; Label: zoom-zoom; Background: chaoss

Printed in Canada. First printing September 2015.

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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-86571-800-5

eISBN: 978-1-55092-595-1

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Lavergne, Michael, author

Fixing fashion : rethinking the way we make, market and

buy our clothes / Michael Lavergne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-0-86571-800-5 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-55092-595-1 (ebook)

1. Clothing trade--Social aspects. 2. Clothing trade--Environmental aspects. 3. Fashion--Social aspects. 4. Fashion--Environmental aspects. 5. Shopping--Social aspects. 6. Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects. 7. Social responsibility of business. I. Title.

HD9940.A2L39 2015

338.4’774692

C2015-903746-8

C2015-903747-6

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