Slow Fashion is a documentary that calls for accountability in the fashion industry:


First, we go to Oaxaca in Southern Mexico where designs are being appropriated from indigenous cultures by major fashion companies. Mexico's Ministry of Culture has asked three global companies - Zara, Anthropology and Patowl - for a "public explanation on what basis it could privatize collective property." So the question is posed: Can credit and even compensation be given to these women artisans, where the designs originate, and given the economic disparity between these indigenous communities and the companies appropriating their designs, it becomes a matter of not only collective property rights, but also human rights and the dignity of their culture.


Next we arrive in Laos, where we see how artisans can be treated fairly and compensation can be given by individual designers, operating on a smaller more sustainable scale. The question arises: How does a designer learn to respect culture

and not just take from artisans, but also return something to the community of artisans.


Finally, in Jaipur, India we follow an International designer from Spain, based in New York City ; how she chooses people and planet over profit by treating artisans as partners, leveling the hierarchy, and using environmentally sound materials and practices, thereby engaging in a new circular economy. The impact this one visionary designer has on the artisans and the village is palpable.