Sew What?!? Vol. 2 – The Essentials: How to Design Sustainable Fashion | Dinie van den Heuvel

You know why fashion has to change. Now find out how to do it. Sew What?!? Vol. 2 is the hands-on toolkit for designers and brands who want to go past good intentions, covering choices from materials and finishing to sizing, waste and honest communication.

Volume 1 laid the foundations. Volume 2 is where you get to work. Across 354 pages, Dinie van den Heuvel covers the decisions that shape a collection every day: what you make it from, how you finish it, who it fits, what’s left over and how you talk about it.

Dinie has more than 15 years of experience as a sustainability expert and design coach. She wrote this book for people who want to design differently and need practical tools to do it.

What’s inside Vol. 2 – The Essentials

• Material selection: advanced guidance for choosing materials with care
• Garment finishing: where small details decide how long a garment lasts
• Sizing and diversity: design for real bodies, and more of them
• Waste: cut it out of the design process before it reaches the cutting table
• Recycling and upcycling: turn existing materials and garments into new value
• Vegan fashion: design without animal-derived materials
• Environmental impact and measuring progress: know where you stand and track what really changes
• Carbon offsetting: what it can and can’t do for your brand
• Greenwashing: how to recognise it and avoid it in your own communication

Who it’s for

• Designers ready to put sustainable thinking into a real collection
• Brand owners who want to make decisions they can defend, and claims that hold up
• Fashion students who want practical skills alongside the theory
• Readers of Vol. 1 who are ready for the next step

Why this book

With EU rules on green claims getting stricter, good intentions aren’t enough anymore. Sew What?!? Vol. 2 helps you make choices you can explain and stand behind, from the design studio to your product page.

The basics are covered. Now get to the essentials.

Product details

• Author: Dinie van den Heuvel
• Pages: 354
• Language: English
• Published: May 2023
• ISBN: [add from the book’s back cover]
• Part of the two-volume Sew What?!? series (Vol. 1: The Basics)