Meet the editors

Riccardo Beltramo is Full Professor at the University of Turin, Department of Management. He works as the Coordinator of the Commodity Sciences area. Since 1986 he has worked in the field of industrial ecology and carries out research on integrated management systems applied to manufacturing, service activities, and industrial areas. He currently teaches environmental management systems, tourism eco-management, and industrial

ecology. He is President of the Bachelor Degree in Business Administration. Maker soul, in the field of Internet of Things has invented the Scatol8® System, a remote sensing system to monitor, show, and process environmental and management variables, giving life to the innovative startup "Lo Scatol8 per la Sostenibilità srl," an academic spinoff of the University of Turin.

Annalisa Romani is Professor of New Technology and Environmental Chemistry, Industrial Chemical Plants and Product Chemistry, Associate Professor of Commodity Sciences SECS-P/13, President and Scientific Referee of the Inter-Departmental Laboratory DiSIA-PHYTOLAB (Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic, Food Supplement Technology, and Analysis), Scientific and Technological Pole, University of Florence, Director of the

Laboratory of Commodity and Quality of Resources, Faculty of Economy, University of Florence, Scientific Referee of PIN QuMAP Laboratory (Quality of Goods and Reliability of the Product), Prato, University of Florence, and Scientific Referent of Cluster C.H.I.Co, an area of pharma food. She is the author of 200+ publications, with more than 100 in international scientific journals. She is also the holder of nine national and European patents. She has an H-Index of 41.

Paolo Cantore is a computer science engineer and graduated at the Polytechnic of Turin. His work experiences mainly concern wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring and management systems. He has participated at many research projects working for the universities of Turin and Prato, and he took a PhD in business and management. He is currently doing a research grant at the University of Turin.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Preface III**

Fashion and Sustainability **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 33**

Trends in Fashion Industry: A Technological Approach **45**

**Chapter 4 47**

**Chapter 5 59**

**Chapter 6 73** How to Make Fabrics Talk Environment: The Scatol8 per la Sostenibilità Way *by Riccardo Beltramo, Jacopo Beltramo, Paolo Cantore and Annalisa Romani*

The RFId Technology for Monitoring the Supply Chain and for Fighting

Does Mass Customization Enable Sustainability in the Fashion Industry?

Exploration of Bamboo Fabrics with Natural Dyes for Sustainability

*by Amélia Maria Pinto da Cunha Brandão and Mahesh Gadekar*

against Counterfeiting: A Fashion Company Case Study

Sustainability Initiatives in the Fashion Industry

The Counterfeit Market and the Luxury Goods

*by Erica Varese and Anna Claudia Pellicelli*

*by Jennifer Xiaopei Wu and Li Li*

*by D.G.K. Dissanayake*

*by Kavita Chaudhary*

**Section 2**
