Fashion slows down in Denver tonight. The Fabric Lab and the Denver Art Museum (DAM), as part of their First Friday Untitled series, present a local fashion throwdown! Why? To slow down the process. Stop, think, and appreciate how fashion happens, and where your clothes come from. We dig it. Read more teasers about the night ahead here on the DAM blog (yes, that was fun to write) where they chat with designer Tricia Hoke. Our favorite excerpt from that conversation below. Happy Friday darlings!
The theme of this month’s Untitled is Sloth. We’re focusing on slowing down and appreciating some of the awesome things in life – food, art, music and fashion. What do you think are some things most people don’t take the time to notice or appreciate about fashion?
Fashion is something that people do not slow down and appreciate anymore. Just think about the process of a garment….
You start with a fiber… it is then spun and twisted into a yarn, then it is either woven or knit into a fabric. The fabric is then dyed or printed, and sold and bought. The garment is then designed, pattern drafted, fit, made (custom or manufactured), sold and bought again, merchandised, packed, shipped, etc., and all of this before even reaching an end user!
The amount of people it takes to get one style of “Levi’s” on to your butt is too many to count, Ha ha. It takes painstaking hours for a large company to get even a simple style out the door, they just happen to make 150 thousand as compared to one or two. Compare that to custom clothing, and the hours are not much different… except they make it up in volume where a custom garment will be more expensive because there is usually just one.
Slow fashion (a lot like slow food) does not have to be hand sewn, a machine is fine… It is more about the process of ordering a piece custom made locally, making something yourself. Even re-making something from your own closet could be considered slow fashion. It is a new term, and it is a term that many fashion industry people are starting to come to grips with as the consumer becomes more and more concerned with the sustainability, the originality and the quality of their purchases.
Read the full post here… Slow Fashion and Stylewars ll
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The thing with Denver Fashion is that Denver is very METROpolitan. It tries to get COSMO but never quite makes it off the urban level. It should be a clear indication of Fashion NOT when even the smallest of SAKS closes. There are some magazines that think they are FASHION, CULTURE, and STYLE which is great for the want-to-be club scene girls and the boys who dress in whatever faux over priced joke of a “boutique” their friends had some investment in. However when it comes to true fashion stick to the coasts, Milan, and Fashion TV. Truly to be a FASHION Idiot hit the closest salon for a not so great expensive haircut, and the pseudo lame mall stores that you see FOREVER 21 girls wearing on the streets they walk. Because this is the truest METRO DENVER fashion style you can get, and oh yeah don’t forget the martini stains…go club girls rocking the fake Chanel they get out of the white van in Cherry Creek. Denver Fashion WEEK? GET REAL! Anyone with an income to shop Designer Labels actually travels and buys the real thing. Good luck DENVER go 303!
I’m not sure I understand the reference to SAKS pertaining to fashion existing in Denver. The truth is fashion happens in many ways, shapes and forms and is completely subjective. The fashion scene in Denver is probably fairly new to this world, like a baby, compared to cities like Milan. Infants need time to grow and learn to figure out who and what they are. I’m quite curious to see how fashion in Denver progresses. I’m quite curious to see how most cities with new fashion industries just beginning grow proceed. There haven’t been a lot of exciting changes over the past 20 years in fashion. Maybe homegrown, local, independent fashion is just what the industry needs.
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