Full list of publications

Fletcher, K. (2008), Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys, London: Earthscan.

Fletcher, K. (2007), Not One But Many: New Visions for Fashion, Future Fashion White Papers, New York: Earth Pledge, pp275-283.

Fletcher, K. (2007), Clothes That Connect in J. Chapman and N. Gant (Eds.), Designers, Visionaries and Other Stories, London: Earthscan.

Fletcher, K. (2006),Fashion where people and the environment matter, Essay for Well Fashioned: Eco Style in the UK Exhibition, http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/wellfashioned

Fletcher, K. (2006),Dress to Art, Report on the collaborative wedding dress project for Well Fashioned: Eco Style in the UK Exhibition, http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/wellfashioned

Fletcher, K. (2006),Well Laundered, Short text for Well Fashioned: Eco Style in the UK Exhibition, http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/wellfashioned

Fletcher, K. (2006), The circle of life. Eco textiles: the past, present and hopes for the future, Selvedge, January, pp33-39.

Fletcher, K. (2005), The Ecology of Clothing, Fourth Door Review, No. 7, pp67-71.

Fletcher, K. and Tham, M. (2004), Clothing Rythms in E. van Hinte (ed.), Eternally Yours:Time in Design, Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, pp254-274.

Fletcher, K. and Tham, M. (2003), Clothing Lives! Product Life and the Throwaway Society workshop proceedings, 21 May 2003, unpaginated.

Fletcher, K. (2002), Matter Matters, EcoDesign, Vol. VIII, No. 4, pp42-43.

Fletcher, K. and Dewberry, E. (2002), Demi: a case study in design for sustainability, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol 3, No 1, pp38-47.

Fletcher, K. and Earley, R. (2001), Matter Matters, Exhibition of work completed as part the Matter Matters project, Showcase Part 1, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 11-26 Oct.

Fletcher, K., Dewberry, E. and Goggin, P. (2001), Sustainable Consumption by Design in M. Cohen and J. Murphy (eds.) Exploring Sustainable Consumption: Conceptual Issues and Policy Perspectives, London: Elseiver, pp213-224.

Fletcher, K. and Goggin, P. (2001), The Dominant Stances on Ecodesign: A Critique, Design Issues, 17(3). pp15-25. (Download as a pdf)

Fletcher, K. (2001), Cotton Tales, EcoDesign, Vol. VIII, No 3, pp40-42.

Fletcher, K. (2000), The beginning of the end-of-life for textiles, EcoDesign, Vol. VIII, No 2, pp30 -31.

Fletcher, K. (2000), Why we need clothes, EcoDesign, Vol. VIII, No 1, p34.

Fletcher, K. and Dewberry, E. (2000), DEMI: linking design with sustainability, EcoDesign, Vol. VIII, No 1, p42.

Fletcher, K. (2000), Clean and green? EcoDesign, Vol. VII, No 3, p34-36.

Fletcher, K. and Waayer, N. (1999), Creating a final product in D. Myers and S. Stolton (eds.) Organic Cotton, London: Intermediate Technology Publications, pp45-64.

Fletcher, K. and Waayer, N. (1999), Creating a final product – cotton processing involves a variety of ecological problems, Gate, 3, pp4-11.

Fletcher, K. T. (1999), Environmentally responsible design in textiles in A. R. Horrocks (ed.) EcoTextile ’98 – Sustainable Development, Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing, pp271-278.

Fletcher, K. (1999), Practice imperfect, Ecodesign, Vol. VII, No. 1, pp34-35.

Fletcher, K. T. (1998), Design, the Environment and Textiles: Developing Strategies for Environmental Impact Reduction, Journal of the Textile Institute, 89(3), pp72-80.

Fletcher, K. (1998), Sackcloth and élan, New Internationalist, No. 302, p14.

Fletcher, K. (1998), Challenge of Materials, Journal of Sustainable Product Design, No. 5, 62-63.

Fletcher, K. (1998), Textile design: global and local politics, Ecodesign, Vol. VI, No. 2, p36.

Fletcher, K. (1998), Why hemp has yet to reach a high, Ecodesign, Vol. VI, No. 1, p38.

Fletcher, K. (1997/8), Challenging Materials, Textile Horizons, December/January, p39.

Fletcher, K. (1997), To dye or not to dye, Ecodesign, Vol. V, No. 3, p36.

Fletcher, K. (1997), Form, Function, Fabric: fabrics as environmentally considered building materials, Ecodesign, Vol. V, No. 2, p36.

Fletcher, K. (1997), Alternative Materials, Ecodesign, Vol. V, No. 1, p30.

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Conference Papers

Eternally Yours, 2nd International Conference, Eindhoven, 16 - 17 October 2003, Paper entitled, ‘Clothing Rythms’

Product Life and the Throwaway Society, May 2003, Paper entitled, ‘Clothing Lives!’.

IRNES Seminar on Sustainable Aesthetics, April 2002. Paper entitled, ‘Context and clothing’.

European Round Table on Cleaner Production, May 2001. Paper entitled, ‘demi: design, education and sustainability’.

Design in Education Week: Sustainable Futures, April 2000. Paper entitled, ‘demi: linking design and sustainability’.

Ecotextile 98: Sustainable Development, April 1998. Paper entitled, ‘Environmentally Responsible Design in Textiles’.

Textiles, Design and the Environment: on-line conference, July 1997, Paper entitled, ‘Textiles, architecture and the environment’.

Material World II, November 1996. Paper entitled, ‘Sustainability in textiles and architecture’.

Invited Lectures

Public lecture as part of the WestFocus Sustainable Design Lecture Series 2005 at University of Westminster, London, 28 September 2005. Lecture entitled: 'Fashion(ing) Our Ecological Future: new priorities for getting dressed'.

Public lecture at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London, 8 June 2005. Lecture entitled 'Eco Fashion and Textiles' as part of the Fashion and Controversy series.

Presentation EU Textiles and Sustainability workshop at The Design Council, 22 April, 2002. Lecture entitled, ‘Sustainable development for textiles’.

Public lecture as part of the Art & Design Lecture Series at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, University of Central England, 22 March 2001. Lecture entitled, ‘Design for Sustainability’.

Lectures for the Masters programme at the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics at Lund University, Sweden, February 2001.