Fashion, Art and Social Responsibility: the Challenge of Sustainability in Training Programs

This paper will explore the most recent trends in ethical and sustainable fashion and focus on art and fashion as a space of inclusivity and social justice. These are crucial areas where identities are shaped and where opportunities for innovation that positively influence learning processes are created. In other words, art can become a resource for the exercise of power and human rights, as well as fashion a symbol of belonging to a social group and a space in which to articulate practices of resistance and social protest. Fashion, in particular, in recent years has incorporated some trends of contemporary visual and performing art – i.e. the works of Vanessa Beecroft, Christian Boltanski and Michelangelo Pistoletto – and has decided to play its public role as agency by addressing the categories of social values.