Here are some of our favourite stories so that you can get an impression of our work. Enjoy reading!
Reeme Idris in conversation with Natalia Corre on ‘Growing Independent Fashion Brands,’ a book by beloved podcast series and brand consultancy, Advance Copy.
OYUNA embarks on a mission of cultural and environmental stewardship, weaving together the threads of tradition and modernity to safeguard Mongolian nomadic heritage through sustainable cashmere practices.
For our Love Ethic edition, we visited the medicinal herb garden of Dr. Hauschka at the foot of the Swabian Jura and captured our impressions from this magical encounter.
Fashion researcher Ania Zoltkowski explores how embracing an ethic of love in the realm of fashion and textiles can serve as a powerful force of societal and cultural change, manifesting in craftsmanship, community bonds and connections to place.
In times of polarization, division and disorientation: What would a world look like in which an ethic of love is lived?
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“As we destroy beings, we destroy our own beingness. No longer enmeshed in a web of intimate, mutual relationships, no longer participating in life around us, surrounded by contained, dead things, we become less alive ourselves (...) We yearn to recover life. We want to overturn the Age of Separation.” (Charles Eisenstein)
Read MoreUsually, when we think of craft, the ‘hand-made’ immediately comes to mind. Yet, we live in an increasingly accelerated, digitalised age. How does this shift effect the position of the craftsperson, the definition of craftsmanship, and its value?
Read MoreTerra is a research organisation founded by visual artist Corinne Aivazian, with roots in Mexico, Armenia and France, exploring ancestral clay practice to connect histories and peoples. Here she shares lessons from local Maestras and artisans that come from the earth, learned by the hands.
Read More“Technique and skills must be absorbed and wrapped up and put away to become such an integral part of yourself that they will be revealed in your work without your thought.” – Shoji Hamada
Read More“Only that which bears the fingerprints of our doings can be inherited; almost everything else is doomed to be forgotten.” Anna Rosa Krau explores the connection between our hands and our thoughts.
Read MoreEmily Bode spoke with us about her lifelong love of antiques, the stories textiles can tell us, and how drawing on the emotive quality of clothing can enable a meaningful relationship with fashion.
Read MoreWe asked you to send us your thoughts and feelings to find out what this time means for you, for your relationship with your garments, and possibly for the world (of fashion) at large. From your responses, we attempted to stitch an emotional visual quilt – weaving a special piece of cloth that binds us together at this very moment in time.
Read MoreTo grasp a city’s diversity and organic richness with all senses is an expertise that Maurice Maggi has cultivated for decades. Walking through urban landscapes, he turns his attention to places like the pavement, fallow land, and scrub along the way only to find the best and overlooked ingredients for his poetic interventions.
Read MoreFaced with ecological urgency, we traverse through the remaining wild layers of our cityscapes, on the search for a new relationship between fashion and nature. Can we bring forth a material culture of connection and change through rewilding our clothes?
Read MoreThe saying is that children are the future. But what if this future is in grave danger? What if this future is becoming devoid of life, love, hope, and dreams?
Read More“There’s a rhythm in our lives, made of habits, structures and familiar elements: we call it the everyday. It takes one step back from our routine and normal patterns of behaviour in our daily life to perceive that the everyday has a certain strangeness.” (Alessandra Taccia)
Read MoreOur latest free-spirited lingerie story is a whimsical daydream of leaving the city behind for a simpler life in the country.
Read MoreLissome is a passion project, and what started as a one person exploration, has slowly and organically grown into a self-funded, independent publication, created by a dedicated all-women team of volunteers here in Berlin, as well as a wider, international community of writers, photographers, and stylists.
Read MoreA conversation with City Quitters author Karen Rosenkranz about what she learned interviewing creatives who are living and thriving outside of the city.
Read More“New Shores” explores the altering nature of the British shoreline in a time of rapid change. It celebrates the beauty of the coastline but also shows the hard realities of plastic abundance and coastal degradation.
Read MoreA sustainability and resilience researcher and designer for the fashion industries, Ania Zoltowski believes that our issues in this world stem from a detachment from our inner selves, from our communities, and from the Land, of which we are intrinsically interconnected with.
Read MoreOn Saturday, April 27th, 2019, Slow Factory hosted “Study Hall: Sustainability as a Culture”, the fourth part of its captivating conference series on sustainability in fashion. Following swiftly after a successful partnership with the United Nations in February, the first international edition was held in London at Central Saint Martins and organised in collaboration with Fashion Revolution.
Read MoreIn April 2019, we find ourselves in the midst of a spring upheaval and weeks of hopeful and exhilarating grassroots action. Whilst Extinction Rebellion is raising climate emergency awareness to the next level on the streets of London and worldwide, Fashion Revolution is bringing people together during its annual, global Fashion Revolution Week …
Read MoreGender justice shouldn’t be a discussion, it should be a given, yet it is not. Equal opportunity, equal pay, and equal safety and respect are still conditions women across the globe are fighting hard for.
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