Cutting Edge Fashion and Textiles Lectures Now Booking!!

We’re delighted to announce a new season of sustainable fashion and textiles lectures straight from the Slow Studio. 
Topics range from why western society is compelled to consume such quantities of stuff to the thousands of deformed people whose parents were exposed to cotton crop insecticide in the name of fast fashion.
To view the lecture list, go here.

Introducing The Geometrics!

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We’re delighted to give you a tiny flavour of The Geometrics, the first ever visual and theoretical anthology of geometric pattern and structure in textiles.

The best silkscreen printers, digital printers, weavers, knitters and fashion designers in the UK show their work in the first Slow Textiles exhibition and publication – out this autumn.

The Slow Textiles Group have always worked thematically and this year sees our first public launch taking place during London Fashion Week, London Design Festival and Frieze Art Fair 2012.

Featured artists include Suzanne AntonelliKatherine May, Emma LundgrenTope Tijani, Samantha Warren and Clare Willard.

Ann Demeulemeester’s Film SS12 Short

Here at the Slow Textiles Group we have been thinking about the importance of having a philosophy to your practice. Much like yoya or song, if there is a genre, a philosophy, a mindful context/style/framework to the work that you do, the thoughts that you develop and the sweat that you perspire, then the work has longevity and meaning.
If it doesn’t have this, then it fades. The impetus has nothing to hold it in place.

Our role here is to illuminate the philosophy. That is our work. That is why we have created the Slow Design School, a place to learn, discover and feel out the philosophy.

The beauty of Ann Demeulemeester’s video is in it’s simple truth.