Pedagogy and Professional Development

Using Fashion Revolution's Who Made My Clothes Campaign to Introduce Cotton Supply Chain Transparency to Upper-Level Apparel Undergraduates

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Abstract

The global cotton supply chain is one of the most complex supply chains. Stakeholders and consumers are demanding methods of measuring and reducing textile products' environmental impact and textile firms' social responsibility (Lindskog & Roth, 2011). Graduates entering the workplace need to know and understand the complexity of the global supply chain and how a fiber, like cotton, interacts within the complex supply chain to meet consumers' demanding needs. Today's professionals will be tasked with ensuring consumers' needs are met while mitigating the global apparel complex's environmental impact and demonstrating their social responsibility efforts. Therefore, the purpose of this project was to provide a practice-based experiential learning project for undergraduate students with an opportunity to explore and understand cotton sourcing and cotton supply chain transparency.

Keywords: Fashion Revolution, Cotton, Supply Chain, Transparency

How to Cite:

McBee-Black, K. & Zhao, L., (2022) “Using Fashion Revolution's Who Made My Clothes Campaign to Introduce Cotton Supply Chain Transparency to Upper-Level Apparel Undergraduates”, International Textile and Apparel Association Annual Conference Proceedings 78(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/itaa.13286