When we talk about sustainable fashion in our first class, we discussed a lot of ways that people or the industry can use to make fashion more environmentally friendly and sustainable. Yet, we didn’t connect all of them together, they are all almost separate with each other, being considered as one single solution. Reading this article written by Alice Payne makes me realize doing good on only one aspect or process is far less than enough. She uses bamboo as an example – from the material property perspective, it belongs to renewable sources and hence sustainable. However, from the product processing side, turning bamboo into fibre needs tons of energy and it does so much pollution. Life-cycle assessment – the tool Payne introduces to us, is a more comprehensive solution. It involves each progress of fashion production, from “fibre (cradle), moving through to textile production, garment design process, manufacture, distribution, retail, use phase and eventual disposal (grave)”. It just reminds me of a commercial application that launched by Infor. It is called the Infor Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution suite. The suite enables integration of all key aspects of product development with the company’s entire supply chain, from line planning to product design, development, procurement, processing, inventory management, customer information and distribution products. Though both Infor and Alice Payne use the same concept of life-cycle, we can see Infor’s intention is helping company making as much money as possible by saving them time then to focus on fashion design, while Payne tries to seek a way that life-cycle solution can exist in mass market to make it fairer and environmentally responsible. There’s no wonder, all businesses have to take profit into account. But it seems people are still not paying enough attention to the non-money part of life-cycle thinking. We still have a lot to work on.