Slow fashion is all about creating clothing consciously and with integrity. This system encourages slower production schedules, fair wages, lower carbon footprints, and limited to zero waste. Slow fashion embodies all the elements of ethical, eco, and lasting fashion. 

Ethical fashion highlights the fair treatment and respect for animals and those employed to manufacture our clothing. Millions of garment workers are systematically exploited for cheap labor and ethical fashion emphasizes the need for livable wages and safe working conditions. Likewise, ethical fashion prohibits animal testing in order to protect the billions of animals who suffer each year for clothing production. 

Eco fashion focuses on minimizing the impact the fashion industry has on the environment by utilizing non-harmful methods of production. To do so, eco fashion stresses the reduction of  textile waste through the use of deadstock fabrics, recycled materials, organic fabrics, and non-toxic dyes. It also encourages the utilization of production processes that require less wastewater and promotes decarbonization practices to reduce the industry’s carbon emissions. 

Lasting fashion concerns the garment itself and slowing down the consumption rate of clothing. In contrast to the cheap, poorly constructed, and disposable products of fast fashion, lasting fashion involves non-trend specific garments that are produced using high quality materials and traditional methods of clothes making. Lasting fashion provides greater meaning and value to the clothes we wear, and these items are often sold at a higher price.