Book Reference

Ricchetti, M. and Frisa, M. L.  (2012) The Beautiful And The Good. A View From Italy On Sustainable Fashion. First addition Spa in Venezia Marsilio Editori

Available at the Winchester School of Art.

Web Page Reference

Farra, E. (2017) Stella McCartney Discusses How Sustainable Fashion Can Be Sexy – And “How Technology Can Save Us”. Available from https://www.vogue.com/article/vogue-forces-of-fashion-stella-mccartney-sustainable  (Accessed 1st November 2017)

Newspaper Article Reference

The Telegraph (2017) article about up-coming exhibition. Available from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/events/va-announces-key-style-exhibition-2018-fashioned-nature/ (Accessed 1st of November)

Author, Leaper, C. (2017) The V&A announces its key style exhibition for 2018; ‘Fashioned from Nature’ The Telegraph 1st of November web

I took a different approach to this task by sourcing my book, website and newspaper article in reverse order, because I felt it would be a simpler, less forced approach of finding each reference for this task. I wanted my references to follow a common theme which I felt would be harder to do if I referenced a book first. I originally intended to buy a newspaper however, I used the internet because it made the process faster and provided more options. I came across my chosen article when reading another one from The Telegraph’s website, about Botticelli’s works. Although, I had to subscribe to the online newspaper before I could read further. However, once I subscribed a different web page opened and I found my chosen article about sustainable fashion. This article talks about an up-coming exhibition at the V&A and it listed the names of designer’s whose works are included. This gave me a theme to work with and a list of designers to research further.

I then researched Stella McCartney’s sustainable fashion, as she was one of the designers listed. This was informative for my theme and naturally lent itself to the idea of finding a book to further my knowledge. Vogue’s article about Stella McCartney talks about the idea of using recycled materials which was an idea I kept in mind when searching the WSA library for a book to reference. I then found a suitable book to reference that explores the theory that using recycled materials is an inevitability today because it is now considered cool to care about the planet.