No more waste, Slow Fiber arrives for sustainable fashion - Lifestyle

According to the European Commission's report entitled "Textiles and the environment in a circular economy: the role of design in Europe's circular economy", the production and consumption of textile products in Europe continues to increase, as does their impact on the climate, water and energy consumption and the environment. Global production of these products almost doubled between 2000 and 2015 and clothing consumption is expected to increase by 63% by 2030, from 62 million tonnes today to 102 million tonnes. Every year in the EU about 5.8 million tons of textile products are thrown away, every European buys twenty-six kilos of clothes a year and throws away eleven after wearing them just 7-8 times while only 13% of them are reused or recycled.
With a view to a greener, ethical and sustainable fashion, Slow Fiber arrives, a network born from the meeting between Slow Food Italy and sixteen virtuous companies of textile furniture that already adhere to green requirements - Oscalito, L'Opificio, Quagliotti, Remmert, Pettinatura Di Verrone, Tintoria 2000, Angelo Vasino Spa, Olcese Ferrari, Tintoria Felli, Manifattura Tessile Di Nole, Holding Moda, Lane Cardate, Italfil, Pattern, Maglificio Maggia, Vitale Barberis Canonico- example of positive change in the transition to a production process aimed at creating beautiful, healthy, clean, fair and durable products, because they respect the dignity of the person and Nature. These are intergenerational companies that have an important history in the clothing and furniture production sector, which today employ more than 1000 people and reach a total turnover of over 500 million euros
Slow Fiber aims to recover awareness of how textile and clothing products are made, working to make a change towards the sustainability of the environment and people. His wants to be the answer to fast fashion and, through their production processes, wants to represent a positive change thanks to the creation of beautiful, good, healthy, fair, clean and durable products. The new network starts from a reflection: we buy too much and waste more than ever. Not only in the food field with food that should nourish us and instead does not even arrive on our tables, but also in the clothing and furniture sector, in the field of fast use and fast fashion.
Slow Fiber aims to disseminate knowledge of the impact that textile products have on the environment, on workers in the supply chain and on consumer health to spread a new ethics and culture of dressing and furnishing. With this in mind, the purpose of Slow Fiber is also to expand the network, involving and inviting Italian and international companies to join the network to expand the scope of the impact of this change, making it choral, strong and immediate.
Daughter of the Slow Food association, which for years has been committed to promoting good, clean and fair food for everyone, Slow Fiber proposes the same path and the same values in the field of dressing and furniture, and therefore of relationship with the body and with beauty, also understood as ethical, fair and measured. Finally, greener is also more beautiful, as Dario Casalini, founder of Slow Fiber, explains: "In recent decades, the fast fashion model has imposed a coincidence between new and beautiful. Garments that are produced in large quantities and low quality and create waste. The idea is instead to recover a concept of beauty that also has ethical values because being sustainable means having an intellectually honest attitude and therefore taking into consideration the whole system".