• Environment

    The rise of slow fashion in Ontario

    Combating fast fashion with local efforts A growing number of professionals and hobbyists are working hard to bring clothing and textile manufacturing back to Ontario.  “Clothing has been priced too cheaply for too long, so people don’t really understand how much work goes into things,” says Alexandra Julian, a production manager at a recycled clothing company.  This movement away from fast fashion in favour of local, environmentally-conscious textile manufacturing is slowly gaining popularity as people are becoming more conscious of their environmental impact. Starting from the soil, ending in the soil “I like to tell people we’re soil farmers,” says Andrew MacDonald, an Ontario-based homesteader.  MacDonald bases his family homestead…