Slow fashion news and archive

Sustainable swimwear brand F and Wild launches

New ethical swimwear brand F and Wild London has launched its debut collection made from regenerated plastic waste including fishing nets cleaned from our oceans. Founded by slow fashion advocate Njoki Muchuki, the debut Lamu Collection from the women’s swimwear brand is named after her birthplace Lamu Island in Kenya. The collection features a...

Jul 19, 2021

Fashion

HANN preserves artisan jewelry in the cookie-less world of 2021

Acquaintance - ethics and values Hannelore Vermeir, founder of HANN, travelled to Thailand to pursue her profession as a classical musician at the Thailand Philharmonic orchestra. With the emerge of cheap costume jewelry, she noticed a decline of the highly accredited Thai fine jewelry industry. Since many local manufacturers are unable to adapt...

Jun 25, 2021

Fashion

Fashion4Wellness shows that you can go a long way with slow fashion. A very long way ...

Hammam towels, beach towels, hand towels, beach bed covers, kimonos, tunics, kikoys, foutas, pareos, plaids … you name it. All hand-knotted and woven from high-quality cotton by artisanal family businesses in Turkey, Tunisia, Bali and Kenya. That is Fashion4Wellness, the Dutch textile brand from designer Lidy de Roos. Each item in the...

Jun 10, 2021

Fashion

Sustainable Swedish brand Asket steps into womenswear

Sustainable Swedish brand Asket is branching out from its menswear roots with the launch of its first womenswear collection this summer. The six-year-old brand, which sells timeless menswear staples and encourages shoppers to have “smaller but better wardrobes”, announced Thursday it will begin by introducing six garments as part of a new...

Jun 3, 2021

Retail

Asket to open first physical store in Stockholm

Swedish slow fashion brand Asket is opening its first physical store in Stockholm on Saturday, 22nd May 2021. Launched in 2015 as an online-only D2C brand, Asket has used its online presence to spearhead transparency and accountability and now wants to bring this same approach to physical retail. “To slow down consumption, we need people to...

May 20, 2021

Fashion

Big fashion brands back Bangladesh recycling scheme

Over 30 fashion brands and manufacturers have joined a new initiative to collaborate on cutting down textile waste and reusing materials to create new products in Bangladesh’s garments factories. The Circular Fashion Partnership announced this week that it is bringing brands such as H&M, OVS, Marks & Spencer, Berska, Pull & Bear, C&A, Kmart...

Feb 12, 2021

Retail

Asket overhauls its packaging, reduces e-commerce impact

Even though their e-commerce site has ensured the survival of many fashion retailers during the global pandemic, it is no secret that the flood of shipped packages has had a negative impact on the environment - seven times more packaging is required for e-commerce compared to brick-and-mortar retail. Swedish menswear label Asket wanted to do...

Feb 12, 2021

Fashion |INTERVIEW

Slow fashion label Asket: “We are almost anti-fashion”

Fewer collections, longer lasting creations - rarely before did the future of slow fashion look so realistic. Swedish slow fashion label Asket focuses on an ascetic lifestyle; less is more. This is why the Stockholm-based brand has been concentrating on timeless basics and only one permanent collection since its founding days in 2015....

Aug 25, 2020

Business |INTERVIEW

One coat for all seasons: Daphne Gerritse, Founder and Designer of Rain Couture

Boutique label, Rain Couture Amsterdam, has garnered a following for their multi-functional coats with a luxurious design flair.Embrace the seasonsis ingrained in the label’s philosophy: There is no such thing as bad weather, only various ways of exploring the glimpse of your time-as stated on the company’s website. With two physical stores...

Apr 22, 2020

Fashion |INTERVIEW

Sustainable fashion labels campaign to slow down the fashion industry

The spread of the novel coronavirus is presenting fashion companies with unprecedented problems. Therefore, a movement is now forming among the sustainable players, one of whose founders is German fashion label Lanius, to slow down the fashion industry. Since mid-March, clothing stores in Germany have been closed in order to contain the spread...

Apr 15, 2020

Podcast

Bel Kazan, a pioneer in slow and ethical fashion.

Belinda Kazanci, founder of the ethical label Bel Kazan was invited to Spirit of 608’s podcast “FEST” (fashion, entrepreneurship, sustainability + tech). What is special about her fashion brand is the whole journey that started in Bali, Indonesia, 15 years ago and now has a store in Los Angeles, while collecting lots of fans of her designs and...

Apr 7, 2020

Fashion |OPINION

Forget G7, slow fashion is the fast track to a bright future

François-Henri Pinault, CEO of luxury conglomerate Kering, unveiled the G7 Fashion Pact this week, a coalition of 32 fashion houses which includes Prada, Tapestry, Nike, Adidas and Burberry, committed to protecting the world’s climate, biodiversity and oceans. The Pact is the result of a clarion call from French President Emmanuel Macron and...

Aug 27, 2019