"All publicity is good publicity? Perhaps not. In recent years global fashion brands, including Burberry, Dior, Dolce …, racism, misogyny, and even flirting with fascism. Understanding Fashion Scandals is the first book to explore the changing … landscape of contemporary fashion through case studies showing how 'shock value' lost its currency. The book focuses on the …

- introduction from the editors -- Acknowledgements -- PART I The fast fashion phenomena and its consequences from a sustainability … point of view -- 1 Rana Plaza as a threat to the fast fashion model? An analysis of institutional responses to the disaster … in Germany -- 2 Evaluating fast fashion: examining its micro and the macro perspective -- PART II Fast fashion and the …