Slow Fashion Show 2026 at the MOA

Come join us for our annual Slow Fashion Season Fashion Show at the Museum of Anthropology on the UBC Campus!

Last year brought a very fruitful culmination of emerging and existent artists working in fashion with one main goal: sustainability. Slow Fashion Season 2026 is designed to exemplify the conscientious use and production of fibres and apparel. We recognize that artists, creators and designers have the power to influence taste and fashion and are key actors for advancing public knowledge about textile circularity. The exhibition and fashion show become sites of this power, stimulating change in consumption habits by modelling more sustainable, conscientious textile use and production and guiding demand toward alternative products.

The invited professional artists in the show share their creations alongside students whose works were submitted in response to the UBC Student Sustainable Fashion Challenge. Most of the garments will be embodied in the fullest sense when modelled at Museum of Anthropology at UBC on March 12th.

The evening begins in the Bill Reid Rotunda with Croquis, a solo performance by award-winning queer Canadian-Filipinx artist Ralph Escamillan — a live, expressive sketch in motion that sets the tone for the night. Then the runway comes alive in MOA’s Great Hall with designs by professional fashion designers and students responding to the UBC Student Sustainable Fashion Challenge, showcasing bold experimentation and imaginative futures for fashion.

After the show, audiences are invited into MOA’s Multiversity Gallery to meet the designers and connect their work with MOA’s global textile collections — a space for conversation, reflection, and deeper connection.

Schedule

Croquis, a solo performance by Ralph Escamillan
Bill Reid Rotunda| 6 pm

Slow Fashion Show
Great Hall | 6:30 pm

Meet the Designers
Multiversity Galleries | 8 pm

Title photo by Bella Brough, Carrie Oki Doki at Slow Fashion Show 2025.