A deliberate slowing-down of clothing, set against fast fashion's speed and volume: local artisans, hand-sewn and small-batch production, durable construction and garments meant to be repaired rather than replaced. The name borrows its whole logic from the Slow Food movement, prizing quality, environmental responsibility and fair labor practice over throughput. It gives the home atlas's own sewing craft, and the broader upcycling ethic, a name for the economics that make hand production worth choosing over a factory line. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
The 2007 coinage is the mainstream attribution; a documented dissent below names a second, roughly contemporaneous coinage that some commentators credit as an independent origin of the same idea.
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Origin Year2007 is Kate Fletcher's own coinage date in The Ecologist; see the recorded dissent for the competing Angela Murrills attribution. OriginKate Fletcher introduced the term slow fashion in a 2007 article in The Ecologist, drawing a deliberate parallel to the Slow Food movement. 1 FAQs
Where does the term slow fashion come from?
Kate Fletcher introduced it in a 2007 article, deliberately paralleling the Slow Food movement.
Kate Fletcher introduced the term slow fashion in a 2007 article in The Ecologist, drawing a deliberate parallel to the Slow Food movement. Slow fashion sets local artisans, hand-sewn and small-batch production, durable construction and repairable garments against fast fashion's speed and volume, prizing quality, environmental responsibility and fair labor practice over throughput.
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The term slow fashion was introduced in 2007 by Kate Fletcher in an article published in The Ecologist.
Slow fashion, Wikipedia, History section, Angela Murrills sentence
The term "slow clothes movement" was coined by Angela Murrills, a fashion writer for Georgia Straight, a Vancouver-based online news magazine, and was adopted on blogs and the internet.
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The EcologistOriginal 2007 Ecologist article body, paragraph on the Slow Food Movement parallelQuote, Original 2007 Ecologist article body, paragraph on the Slow Food Movement parallel
The concept of slow fashion borrows heavily from the Slow Food Movement. Founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986, Slow Food links pleasure and food with awareness and responsibility.
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Kate Fletcher's 2007 Ecologist article is the mainstream attribution for the term slow fashion, but Georgia Straight fashion writer Angela Murrills independently coined the closely related term slow clothes movement around the same period, and some commentary credits her as a parallel, not derivative, source of the same idea. The two coinages arose in different publications with no evidence one drew directly on the other.
A dissenting reading, from an independent laneSlow Fashion (Wikipedia), Wikimedia Foundation
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Angela Murrills, a fashion writer for the Vancouver magazine Georgia Straight, coined the related term "slow clothes movement", adopted on blogs and across the internet, a separate and roughly contemporaneous coinage from Kate Fletcher's 2007 "slow fashion" article in The Ecologist that this entity credits as its origin.
A dissenting reading, from Angela MurrillsSlow Fashion (Wikipedia), Wikimedia Foundation
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