SPRING 2025

Fashion for a Living Planet

On April 26, 2025, we hosted our largest Spring Slow Fashion Show yet, a sold out evening of intentional fashion, bold storytelling, and community connection. Held at Propaganda HQ in Austin, Texas, the event brought together over 350 attendees, with guests traveling in from Florida, New York, Louisville, and New Orleans to witness our growing movement in action.

This is a call to rethink our relationship with clothing, consumption, and community.

For Spring 2025, our theme was water - a vital, life-sustaining resource that’s increasingly endangered by the fashion industry. From toxic dyes polluting rivers to extreme water use in textile production, fashion’s impact on global water systems is staggering.

This show aimed to inspire change by spotlighting conservation efforts right here in Austin and asking: how can fashion become a force for restoration instead of extraction? We believe it starts with education, transparency, and radical creativity.

Volume III:

A Living Archive

The Spring ‘25 show marked the release of our third edition of The Slow Fashion Zine, a 175 - page, full - color, glossy memento that captures the heartbeat of our community. Given to every seated guest, the zine is part publication, part time capsule, featuring a full recap of our 2024 programming alongside essays, interviews, photo essays, and more from artists and contributors deeply embedded in the movement.

The zine is how we slow things down. It honors the voices, labor, and perspectives that are often left out of mainstream fashion media. It’s something to hold, reread, and pass on - a tangible reminder that change is happening here, together.

Conversations on Creativity and Climate

We opened the night with a powerful educational panel exploring the intersection of fashion, climate resilience, and creative policy. Moderated in front of a packed house, the conversation featured:

  • Mali Calvo, Regional Climate Coordinator for the City of Austin’s Office of Climate Action & Resilience

  • Michu Steiner, Co-founder of design agency In-House International

  • Miriam Conner, President-Elect of Preservation Austin and Founder of Creative Policy

The panelists brought nuanced perspectives to the table, discussing how Austin creatives can play an active role in water conservation, sustainable city planning, and cultural preservation. The conversation wove together community organizing, climate justice, and the role of design in imagining new futures. Most importantly, it grounded our fashion show in local context and reminded our audience that the work of climate action is collaborative, creative, and already underway.

Daring to

Dream Differently

Twelve groundbreaking designers walked our Spring runway, each with a vision rooted in sustainability, personal identity, and radical care. From reiki-charged crochet to upcycled couture, every piece reflected our commitment to secondhand, reclaimed, and slow-made fashion.

We proudly partnered with KEEN Footwear, who provided unsellable shoes that were upcycled by participating designers into runway looks. It was a real-time example of circularity, showing how waste can become beauty, and how brands can collaborate with creatives to reduce environmental harm.

Our designers shared common threads: a reverence for the handmade, a rejection of mass production, and a belief that clothing can carry memory, culture, and healing. Many emphasized personal storytelling, infusing their collections with themes of grief, transformation, queerness, heritage, and spiritual connection. Others used fashion to critique capitalism, uplift Indigenous practices, or romanticize the everyday through garments made from discarded materials.

This runway wasn’t about trends, it was about truth.

  • The Era Exchange is a clothing and accessories brand that specializes in up-cycled and crocheted items. This brand was created by emerging fashion designer, DeAyrra (pronounced Dee-Air-rah) Greene, who was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. Our mission is to create wearable art by combining crochet, fabrics and other textiles.

  • Futurekind Studio is the culmination of years of thinking and dreaming about influencing greater change in the fashion and arts industries, which remain largely exclusionary, competitive, and hierarchical. The vision behind Futurekind is to create an anti-capitalist space that encourages joy, collaboration, and purposeful design to create a better world for all of us. We value community, diversity, sustainability, and inclusion in all aspects of life, art, and design. Dress yourself to express yourself – wear what brings you joy. THERE ARE NO RULES!

  • Seoul Coyote is the styling brand created by Julia Bennett, a Korean adoptee, who loves to create anything tactile and provide people a full-sensorial experience when it comes to their inspiration in their own personal styling discoveries. For this specific Slow Fashion Festival, I will be upcycling by creating 6 cohesive looks in pertains to blending the Korean and American intersections of style for 6 decades.

  • Eternal emporium is based in the belief that everything in our lives should be romanticized and appreciated to its full potential. The way we adorn our bodies should be good for the soul and our planet, which is why we strictly use second hand and up-cycled materials. There is potential beauty in everything, you’ve just got to look hard enough.

  • Skin2Skin exists in tribute to interconnectivity - to the meeting of one's skin with another's, with clothing acting as a medium through which to communicate emotionally intimate or personal statements to the entire world around you.

  • Pamela Cooper is an American couture and ready-to-wear brand. Inspired by divinity, femininity and sexual liberation, Pamela Cooper was born.

    Pamela specializes in crafting small batch, limited edition collections from dead-stock and vintage fabrics. Known for her craftsmanship, she combines dark and gothic details with the best of traditional corsetry and couture lingerie. All pieces are handmade by Pamela in her Houston studio. 

  • 2 Good Texas is a one of a kind brand, focusing on extravagance and charm. Taking inspiration from theatre arts, burlesque, Mardi Gras costumes, Thierry Mugler, and a plethora of small designers on Instagram, I strive to create 1 of 1 pieces that are complete show stoppers. One day I hope to be able to create costumes for Movies, TV, and music videos. I want my buyer to wear something that nobody else can have.

  • Wholegrayn is a wearable art brand & zero waste fiber studio that creates bespoke garments, textile goods and fiber art. Garments are intuitively pieced together using textile scraps, fiber remnants and second-hand textiles (most often stained and damaged clothing.) All remaining textile waste, created during studio production, is then thoughtfully made into textile goods and fiber art. Wholegrayn's purpose is to help divert local textile waste from entering landfills or historically exploited countries. Lauren strives to do this by making her studio as circular as possible, resourcefully using discarded textiles and educating the public on the importance of clothing longevity and mending.

  • NYDG is an acronym for “Not Your Dream Girl”. It is the idea that “I am not your dream girl, only my own”. What that means is that the only dream girl one can be is to themselves. The only approval and acceptance you need is that of yourself. I incorporated the word “dream” because I am inspired by all that I used to dream and fantasize about growing up and today. It is through these inspirations that NYDG creates an inclusive brand to reference, fantasize and dream about together.

  • I knit and crochet using only second hand yarn, then infused each stitch with reiki to support a greener, cleaner and more magical world!

  • Lost Generation is an independent fashion brand that is owned and operated by a Catawba Indian woman. Our core line of handbags is manufactured in small batches at a home studio from soft, slouchy leather reminiscent of the deer skins that the Catawba people have tanned and made into clothing for millennia. We are focused on using natural materials, whether new or discarded, in timeless designs to create pieces that can be handed down to the next generation. Our designs can transition from day to night and season to season effortlessly with details chosen specifically to align with our inspiration–our founder's two grandmothers, both from the Lost Generation–such as fringe, braids, or beading like you might find on Native regalia or patterns of tiny flowers as on vintage fabrics. Lost Generation makes timeless goods for everyday use.

  • Cosmic Chaos was born in the wake of the passing of one of my closest friends in 2023. My friend Cami got me back into making jewelry, and it became part of my grieving process after losing them. Soon, I had more jewelry than any one person could ever hope to wear, and I began selling my pieces. 2024 was my first full year in business, and continuing to have opportunities to share my work with my community is more than I can ask for. Cami continues to inspire me on a personal and professional level and I make things that echo things that we both love; expressing identity, color, and sparkle.

87 Models walked in the 2025 Spring Show

Zina • Misha Pahl • Gothess Jasmine • Louisiana Purchase • Princess Jackie • Adrianah Lee • Tess Ellen Davis • Abigail Jewel • Tatum Brooke • Quintine Freeman • Jordan Moser • Teya Saadeh • Jack Rabid • Mutha Goose • Jualdo Vielma • Louisianna Purchase • Edie Elsì • Banshee Rose • Cassidy Edison • Quintine Freeman • Gwyneth Burgos • Khammila Shimray • Maya-Maria Willis • Domenic Gipson* • Gabrielle Groberio • Nate Masso • Sunni Scott • Sean Baxter • Bertiny Dorismond • Rimsha Syed • Annie Kim • Stella Nshuti • FrankiMarz • Bobby Pudriido • Gothess Jasmine • Gabriela Belmont • B. nasssty • Coach • Mazikeen Jones • Jasmine Marshall • Kamdin • Paloma Ramirez • Ci • Izzy • Cierra • Máel • Timothy Sousivong • Jesse Guerrero • Andi Klunt • Chad Franklin • Samira • Abby Frye • Chryssha Guidry • Ash Keenum • Joy Williams • Yaritzell Campos • Ethen • Kyla Ramon • Leenoir • Meryl Jiang • Angelica Blaze • Sophia Nance • Ixchel Vásquez-Castañeda • Precious Unique • Nadia • Isis Destiny • Zoë Sibrenne • Kass Hernandez • Sachi • Divya Donapalli • Anna Christ • Amani • Elisa Hernandez • Mya Galan • LaClea • Vineeth • Violet • Naajah • Jazmine Cortez • Edie Alfaro • Noelle Lewis • Gabriella Gorecki • Romina • Grace • Abigail Jewel Mikel • Alyson Vong • Divya • Keelin Saunders • Davin

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