Our fast-fashion habits are amassing a huge—and growing—problem of textile waste in landfills here and overseas. Slow Fashion Season 2025 imagines a more sustainable future for clothing, through public events across the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus.
Slow Fashion Season kicks off with a UBC wide Student Sustainable Fashion Challenge. UBC Students are invited to create their own sustainable outfits, supported by Pop-Up Workshops throughout January and February where they can repair or reinvent their clothes. Slow Fashion Season concludes with an exhibition March 21-27 at Hatch Art Gallery and the Slow Fashion Show on the evening of March 27 at the Museum of Anthropology, featuring inspiring slow fashion designers, student finalists, and work by textile researchers.
STUDENT SUSTAINABLE FASHION CHALLENGE • Deadline February 28
REPAIR & SEWING WORKSHOP POP UPS January – February
EXHIBITION AT HATCH March 21 -27, 12-4PM M-F at Hatch Art Gallery, UBC Nest
SLOW FASHION SHOW AT MOA March 27, 7PM – 8:30PM in the Museum of Anthropology
~ preceded by a pre-show screening of THE NETTLE DRESS (68min), 5PM at The Coach House, Green College, UBC.
Background on Slow Fashion Season: Slow Fashion Season will be an accessible annual forum for exchanging research, building skills, and presenting inspiring initiatives and creative production in the realm of sustainable textiles and apparel. It is an initiative of the new Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre, Slow Fashion interdisciplinary research cluster in the UBC Humanities Hub that includes faculty, staff and students aiming to address the complex problems of textile waste and consumption by researching alternative textile systems and fibre materials. The UBC faculty leads are visual artist Germaine Koh, mechanical engineer Dr Alexandra Tavasoli, Audain Chair in Historical Indigenous Art Dr Alexandra Peck, art historian Dr T’ai Smith, and costume designer Jacqueline Firkins. This research cluster, is an interdisciplinary network addressing the complex problems of textile waste and sustainability with collaborations across both UBC campuses, other universities, and industry partners.
Follow us on Instagram @slowfashionseason or check www.slowfashionseason.com for updates and more details about how to get involved.
Presented by: The Circular Textiles, Sustainable Fibre, Slow Fashion Research Cluster with the SEEDS Sustainability Office, Museum of Anthropology, Hatch Art Gallery, DreamsStill and UBC Arts & Culture
Supported by: The UBC Public Humanities Hub, UBC SEEDS Sustainability Program, UBC Art History Visual Art and the UBC Arts & Culture District
Media Contact: Deb Pickman | deb.pickman@ubc.ca | 604.319.7656