Handbook of Sustainable Luxury Textiles and Fashion

The Lotus Flower fiber and sustainable luxury.- Flax: Sustainability is the New Luxury.- Great potential of stinging Nettle for sustainable textile and fashion.- Sustainable Luxury Natural Fibers -Production, Properties and Prospects.- Sustainable processing of luxury textiles.- Sustainability in luxury textile applications: a contradiction or a new business opportunity?.- Specialty Chemical Finishes for Sustainable Luxurious Textiles.- Book Chapter for Handbook of Sustainable luxury textiles and Fashion- Vol 1.

Dr. Miguel Angel Gardetti  has been the head of the Center for Study of Corporate Sustainability (IESC) since its foundation in 2002, and he also holds the same position at the Center for Study of Sustainable Luxury. He is head professor in MBA and master's programmes both in Argentina and abroad. He has provided training within frameworks of executive education and in house programmes to CEOs and corporate managers from both domestic and multinational companies in Argentina and Latin America. In the field of textiles, fashion and sustainability, he also developed several publications in the area of sustainable luxury as, for example, the special issue of the Journal of Corporate Citizenship on Textiles, Fashion and Sustainability and a book titled Sustainability in Fashion and Textiles; Values, Design, Production and Consumption. Miguel was a member of the United Nations Global Compact Promoting Group in Argentina and a member of its governance body-the Board of the Argentine Chapter of The Global Compact-for two consecutive terms. He was co-founder of the Global Compact Chair in Argentina, and he was also part of the task force that developed the 'Management Responsible Education Principles' of the United Nations Global Compact.

Dr Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as a global sustainability consultant, based at Hong Kong. He gained his diploma, bachelors and masters in Textile Technology from premier institutes of India. He was awarded doctorate from The Institute of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for his dissertation entitled," Eco-functional Assessment of Grocery Shopping Bags" He also has more than seven years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, testing and sustainability evaluation of textiles and clothing materials. He was an outstanding student throughout his studies and bagged numerous awards and medals including many gold medals in his study period. He has more than 75 academic