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Slow Fashion Season is a forum to exchange research, build skills, and present creative production and initiatives aimed at more sustainable, conscientious use and production of fibres and apparel. It is an annual initiative of the Slow Fashion: Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre interdisciplinary research cluster of faculty, staff and students tackling the complex problems of textile waste and consumption with alternative fibre systems and materials.

At this page you can find community announcements and other news relating to our cluster's wide range of projects and activities.

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    January 19, 2026

    Newsletter: January 14, 2026

    Slow Fashion Season 2026 is launched! Scroll down for the details of planned SFS26 activities. For a quick view of January events, see our Instagram post.

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  3. January 6, 2026

    Carl Stewart X _ collab

    Weaver Carl Stewart’s “wholecloth” is a series of cloth pieces carefully re-woven from culturally significant objects that he has unwoven. With a focus on how textiles play a role in crafting of queer culture and identity, he asks, “Does a cloth made from recycled denim jeans embody the spirit…

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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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