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Slow Fashion

Welcome to Slow Fashion: Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre research cluster!

The complexity of textile sustainability is technical and social: The global textile industry is only 0.3% circular (Circle Economy 2024) and apparel waste is 2.3% of Metro Vancouver’s garbage (Storry & McKenzie 2002). There exists a deep need to adjust social attitudes toward and demand for fast fashion. To shift demand and begin cherishing the possibilities of reinvention and renewal, we respond to the seemingly simple question: how can textiles be made more sustainable?

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The Slow Fashion cluster brings together scholars, artists and non-academic partners who are working on the complex problems of sustainability in textiles and clothing, to interweave our research and knowledge-exchange threads.

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First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).

Slow Fashion: Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre Research Cluster

Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
E-mail slow.fashion@ubc.ca
Website slowfashion.ubc.ca

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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