Responsibilities of a Textiles Designer
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- Social, Moral, Cultural and Ethical issues in textiles
- Social
- Issues arise when a new product has an unforeseen effect on a group of people.
- Gender images and peer group pressure.
- Clothing, accessories and styling of fashionable celebrities.
- Brand loyalty
- Leads to development of new street fashions, style and colour trends as well as development of new marketing strategies.
- Moral
- Could a new product enable someone to do something undesirable or illegal?
- If you outsource production to place of cheap labour, what about unemployment, economy and exploitation.
- Globalisation
- Consumer awareness, new global markets, awareness of native textiles.
- Textiles costs driven down in global marketplace.
- Cultural
- Does the product consider that a particular shape, colour, name can affect different groups of people?
- Globalisation
- Ethical
- Choices made by consumers have an impact on others.
- As long as people pay for cheap product produced in poor conditions and exploited workers, these factories continue to operate.
- Worry of pollution to environment + growing support for recycling.
- Development of new recycled fabrics; preference of higher-cost traditional fabrics over synthetic.
- Enforcement of laws to protect the environment.
- Choices made by consumers have an impact on others.
- Social
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