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Overview
We all want more ways to feel and look healthy. Fashion can do just that, and Alyssa Couture is here to show you how. There’s so much pain and suffering in the world, but fashion can be the tool to promote and create healing, health, and overall balance and harmony.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781789045932 |
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| Publisher: | Collective Ink |
| Publication date: | 12/01/2021 |
| Pages: | 328 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.64(w) x 8.56(h) x 0.73(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction: About Healthy Fashion 1
Part 1 Healthy Fashion for the Mind, Body, and Spirit 17
Chapter 1 Healthy Fashion for the Physical Body 19
The power of plant-tech fashion
Fashion biomimicry 34
Four element fashion 36
Ergonomic fashion 41
Fashion and tactile therapy 54
Fashion that supports the body's oxygen levels 57
Healing fashion 60
The natural health food industry trends and their relation to the fashion industry trends 63
Chapter 2 Healthy Fashion for the Mental Body 70
Universal fashion
Social ethics in fashion for global balance 73
The fashion politics of social classes 77
Fashion as a language 82
The fashion archetype model: a modern fashion concept 84
Fashion in performance art 97
Chapter 3 Healthy Fashion for the Emotional and Energetic Body 100
Healthy fashion supports the emotional body
Fashion and textiles as visual art 105
Color therapy in fashion 110
Healthy fashion for the energy body: the frequency and vibration of fabrics and textile dyes 112
Protecting and keeping the human aura healthy with fashion 118
Chapter 4 Healthy Fashion for the Spirit Body 122
Spiritual fashion is healthy fashion
Galactic-inspired fashion 127
Sacred holy symbols worn 133
The dress of the Ascended Masters 136
Part 2 Unhealthy Fashion 143
Chapter 5 Unhealthy Fabrics 145
Fashion gone rogue
The toxicity of synthetic fabrics 148
Unhealthy fabrics and their negative side effects 151
Synthetic fabrics are bacteria producing 157
Animal-based fabrics and materials: their disadvantages 160
Chapter 6 Unhealthy Fashion Technologies 167
Greenwashing demystified
Unhealthy apparel and accessories that suppress and restrict the body 171
The issues of certain digital fashion tech 174
Chapter 7 Unhealthy Fashion for Mind, Body, and Spirit 180
Exploitation in fashion
Self-objectification found in fashion 185
Anti-fashion: fashion, that goes against the human 192
Part 3 Plant-Based Fabrics and Dyes 199
Chapter 8 The 36 Plant-based Fashion Fabrics for the Present and Future 201
A plant-based fabric future
The 36 plant-based fashion fabrics 206
Chapter 9 Plant-based Fabric Dyes 234
Fabric dyes for the future
Types of natural, botanical, herbal fabric dyes 240
Natural plant-based mordant used in the plant-based textile dyeing process 244
Fabric treatments/infusions 246
Part 4 The Plant-Based Fashion Guide: A Healthy Wardrobe and a Healthy Fashion Industry 249
Chapter 10 What to Wear in Transition: The Transition from Conventional Fashion, to Sustainable Fashion, to Healthy Fashion 251
What fabrics to wear in transition
The plant-based fashion guide: healthy wardrobe alternatives 254
Ancient fashion meets modern fashion: inspirational, plant-based fashions from ancient cultures around the world 260
Apparel and accessory healing modalities in fashion as specific forms of therapy 265
Healing plant- and mineral-based beauty and hygiene products 267
Natural clothing care 270
A feng shui wardrobe 274
Healthy fashion wardrobe and style essentials 276
Chapter 11 A Sustainable Future for Modern, Healthy Fashion Businesses 279
Eco fashion for human health
Healthy fashion business strategies 283
The modern meaning of luxury fashion 287
Slow fashion versus fast fashion 290
High fashion versus low fashion 292
A Final Note 294
Bibliography 296
About the Author 310