Dr Amy Twigger Holroyd is Professor of Alternative Fashion Systems at Nottingham School of Art & Design, part of Nottingham Trent University. She has explored the emerging field of fashion and sustainability since 2004, initially via her craft fashion knitwear label, Keep & Share. Amy’s work has been featured in various exhibitions, books and publications, from Vogue to Fashion Theory. Amy has authored and edited several books, including her monograph Folk Fashion: Understanding Homemade Clothes (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020) and Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023).

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Data Access Statement World index 1 The Place Between How change looks Imagining otherwiseBox 1.1: Further reading Embracing the impossible 2 Speculating sideways Envisioning parallel worlds Activity 2.1: Stage 1 – writing a world Activity 2.2: Stage 2 – making a prototype Bringing the worlds to life Activity 2.3: Stage 3 – creating an enactment Activity 2.4: Capturing wonder Exploring the book 3 Stories and language Fashion stories Telling stories Wording stories Activity 3.1: Take action – garment-description game Performing stories Stories and language: ideas for the real world 4 Nature and spirituality Fashion and nature Post-nature communities Meeting the mushrooms Activity 4.1: Take action – meet the mushrooms Fashion and spirituality Nature and spirituality: ideas for the real world 5 Place and togetherness Locations and localism Places for togetherness Ritualizing fashion Activity 5.1: Take action – ritual garment exchange Trends and connection Activity 5.2: Take action – resourceful styling Place and togetherness: ideas for the real world 6 Organization and adaptation Organizing fashion Organizing otherwise Restriction and rebellion Limits, resourcefulness and adaptation Organization and adaptation: ideas for the real world 7 Pulling the possibilities Speculation, wonder and change Box 7.1: Wonder gallery Lingering experiences: possibility and stories Making change: prefiguration Activity 7.2: Playing in prefigurative mode Looping back NotesSelect Bibliography Index

This inspiring, open-access volume joins other excellent, fashion-related books from Bloomsbury, including the titles in their 'Fashion in Action' series, to examine how to make fashion more imaginative, sustainable, accessible, and durable ... Fashion Fictions has a place across many areas of the curriculum, including environmental education. Talk to your catalogers! Highly recommended.