Archive for June, 2011
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Slow Fashion ≠ Anti Fashion
Of all the things that Slow Fashion can be: handmade, fair trade, luxury, secondhand, sustainable, quality … Slow Fashion is NOT anti-fashion! The term “slow” can be confusing for novices to the Slow Revolution. Slow refers to the lifecycle of the garment as well as the consumer’s… View Work:
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A Slow Fashioned Reading List
In our technology-driven world where information is supposedly available at our fingertips — books have more to offer than we give them credit for. Informational, entertaining, enlightening, and more — this reading list begs you to slow down and pick up a book — and these books will teach you a… View Work:
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And I Quote…
I love fashion! It is beautiful, frightening, exhilarating, confronting, elegant, communicative, intelligent, frivolous and thought provoking. However we also know that fashion is the cause of massive environmental and social injustices. Holly McQuillan… View Work:
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The Future is Now – Interview with IOU founder Kavita Parmar
Every so often an ethical clothing company goes the extra mile and manages to capture imaginations on an unprecedented scale. When IOU exploded onto the scene earlier this year I found myself impressed and energised by what Kavita Parmar and her team had managed to achieve and with their… View Work:
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Interview with Yarok Beauty Kitchen’s Mordechai Alvow
Mordechai Alvow is the founder of Yarok, a line of natural and environmentally friendly hair products. Born in Isreal, Mordechai has been had a successful career as a hair stylist, and found himself more and more focused on providing his clients with alternatives to the (mostly) synthetic… View Work:
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VeloGioielli AKA “Bike Jewelry”
The Portland Saturday Market is a market that runs on Saturdays and Sundays on the Portland Waterfront intended as a space for the Portland community to purchase from and support local artists. I often find unique and innovative jewelry, natural beauty products, and handcrafted items along with… View Work:
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And I Quote…
If most Americans chose one pair of pants that weren’t dyed — it would save enough dye to cover the entire city of Chicago with an inch of colorful liquid. Excerpt from The Green Book:The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time by Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M…. View Work:
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Take The Slow Fashioned Pledge
One constant thing about fashion is change. Seasonally, trends change the preferred color, silhouette, fabric and more — artificially dictating the obsolescence of a garment. Over the past few decades, fashion trends have been changing at a greater rate due to advances in production… View Work:
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Matonyok Designs – An Introduction
We here at Slow Fashioned have been lucky enough to be let into a little secret. And it’s a secret we are pleased to share with our readers…. Just a few weeks ago, we were made aware of a burgeoning new line of handbags called Matonyok, a business partnership between two friends- Jessica Walsh… View Work:
2011 by Slow Fashioned