From fast to slow fashion

People wear clot­hes in all sha­pes, sizes, colo­urs and textu­res. Somet­hing dif­fe­rent for every part of the body. Some­ti­mes people even want to look like other ani­mals: leopard-print skirts, colo­ur­ful col­lars and zebra prints. You name it, Homo sapi­ens will wear it.

The fact that we may have gone a lit­tle over­bo­ard in this regard is fas­ci­na­ting, but also pro­ble­ma­tic. Beca­use people are always wan­ting a dif­fe­rent fabric, a new style or a more ori­gi­nal print. What’s ​‘in’ and ​‘out’ chan­ges so quic­k­ly the­se days that we’ve come to call it fast fashion.

But what effect does this end­less stre­am of new clot­hes have on us human ani­mals? And on the wor­ld aro­und us?

Can we learn to appre­ci­ate the pieces of fabric we use to clot­he our bodi­es once aga­in, so that we’re less quick to throw them away? What actu­al­ly hap­pens to all tho­se clot­hes we dis­card? And how can we beco­me part of slow fashi­on, wit­ho­ut looking any less fun, stylish or quir­ky in the process?

We’ll be dis­cu­ssing the­se ques­ti­ons – and many more – with you, alon­g­si­de two sus­ta­ina­ble fashi­on experts: Anna Roos van Wij­n­ga­ar­den and Megan de Klein.