"How can a product that needs to be sewn, grown, harvested, combed, spun, knitted, cut and stitched, finished, printed, labeled, packaged and transported cost a couple of dollars? It's impossible." - Li Edelkoort

The fashion industry has positioned itself as one of the most polluting and wasteful industries. Slow fashion developed as a contrast to the industry’s fast fashion and quickly changing seasons. Slow fashion aims to create clothing within the lens of environmental, ethical, and sustainable ideals; creating clothing that takes the textile’s lifecycle into consideration. As a result, slow fashion finds itself recycling material, reusing excess textiles, up-cycling vintage clothes and advocating for the prolonged lifetime of a garment. It is not only slow fashion, it is compassionate fashion.

Buying long-lasting clothes is one of the easiest and most pleasurable things we can do for the environment. If we can each increase our wardrobe’s lifespan by just one to two years, it would reduce the fashion industry’s CO2 emissions over that year by 24% and safe billions of gallons of our increasingly precious water supply. We want to rediscover the art of keeping and caring for things.

​All of our clothes, [regardless of where they are bought] are made by hands.​ The wages of workers in garment factories can be as low as US$1-$3 a day. No one should have to spend their day sewing until they collapse from dehydration and exhaustion. 

​We believe more credit should go to the incredible craftsmanship of sewing and the hard labor of textile workers.  ​

Want to know more?

Inside Italy's shadow economy

NewYorkTimes
Within a distressed labor market, thousands of low-paid home workers create luxury garments without contracts or insurance.

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the true cost

(also available on Netflix)
​We buy too many clothes, and we pay too little for them.

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anti-fashion manifesto

A manifesto for the next decade, Li Edelkoort.

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unravel

This is the final resting place of your cast-off clothing.

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udita - arise

Life, death, oppression and resistance - 5 Years with the women of Bangladesh's sweatshops and their fight for a better life.

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river blue

This documentary examines the destruction of our rivers, its effect on humanity, and the solutions that inspire hope for a sustainable future.

The fashion industry is the world's second-largest polluter. Right behind the oil industry.

One-in-six people work in the global fashion industry. A majority of these workers are women earning less than $3 per day.

The world now consumes a staggering 80 billion pieces of clothing each year. This is up 400% from two decades ago.

Only 10% of the clothes people donate to charity or thrift stores get sold.The rest end up in landfills or flooding markets in developing countries like Haiti where they are bought by the box and kill the local industry.

250,000 Indian cotton farmers have killed themselves in the last 15 years. Partly as a result of going into debt to buy genetically modified cotton seeds, courtesy of Monsanto.