ABOUT:

The Slow Fashion Market is an event dedicated to sustainable and ethical new clothing for women, men and children. It is a market event for people who care about how their fashion is made and who made it. Slow fashion is the antithesis of fast fashion.

The market started in Sydney in 2018 and has now grown to include annual one-day events in Melbourne and Canberra too.

The Slow Fashion Market ethos is that fashion shouldn’t be intimidating and serious. The organisers love to put on events that are fun, where the atmosphere is about celebrating talented brands and also it’s about making it easier for consumers to make ethical choices and purchases. It’s important to the team that they create an environment where everyone is comfortable asking questions, and ‘who made my clothes?’ is the core question at this event.

The Slow Fashion Market is organised by Emma Morris and Lee Glezos, the core team behind The Makers & Shakers Market and Round She Goes Fashion Market and The Makers & Shakers Conference. Over the last decade, Emma and Lee have organised retail-based events across Australia that are tailored toward the conscious consumer movement. Round She Goes was established in 2008 and is Australia’s biggest and most popular preloved and vintage fashion market, and has proudly played it’s little part in the fight against the waste generated by fast fashion. The Makers & Shakers Market has gained a solid reputation for curating a concentration of high-quality innovative makers of handmade homewares and food.

In a similar way to their existing events, The Slow Fashion Market aims to give brave and ethical creatives an extra channel for connecting with conscious consumers.

WHY:

The recent Fashion Revolution White Paper characterised the mainstream fashion business as broken — overseeing the systematic exploitation of workers and the unsustainable use of our natural resources. Australia’s relationship to fast fashion is sobering. Over 90 percent of the clothes we buy are made overseas, and each year we send around $500 million worth of clothing to landfill, with some estimates suggesting that 85 percent of the new textiles we purchase are sent to the tip.

Meanwhile an alternative movement is growing, with a new wave of fashion designers creating apparel in ways that avoid the harmful consequences created by fast fashion. Consumers are also becoming more curious about how their goods are made and where they come from, and want to know that their purchases aren’t harming people and the environment. This is evident in the rise of slow food farmers markets, organic food retailers, and the handmade maker movement — which offer things that are superior in quality, social and environmental impact than their ‘fast’ counterparts.

Slow-fashion is part of this general change happening across all market categories. It aims to put the brakes on the pace of over-production, over-consumption and over-disposal of garments, by instilling an awareness, appreciation and connection to the process of quality and ethical production.


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