Slow Fashion Business Models

Welcome to the course Slow Fashion Business Models!

You should be able to understand the flow and work of the course easily in the learning platform Canvas, opening 20 January 2025. The course will finish 8 June, 2025.

From the course promotion, you know that we will explore slow fashion business models that offer alternatives to the logic of high speed, high volume fashion. We will look at multiple theoretical views and various business cases and practices. All the readings and course materials will be provided in pdf:s or links in Canvas.

A unique aspect of this course is that handloom weaver-entrepreneurs (natural participants in the idea of slow fashion) from several parts of India will join us for online meetings (discussions, tasks) that will center on design and techniques, production, business, and perspectives on equity and sustainability.

The course is mostly asynchronistic, so you can work when you want to, but we will also have live online meetings with the weavers. I know some or many people will not be able to attend those meetings, so we will record them.

Hopefully students’ whose schedules allow will be able to reliably attend these meetings so that we will have gain the consistency and familiarity that is so useful for a collaborative way of learning. (These online meetings will be about two times per month, about two hours long each. The schedule will come later.)

The weavers who will join us are alumni from the Swedish school of Textiles (the Handloom School), a tiny and unusual initiative that I helped found about 15 years ago and where I also teach.

Students there are young adult “next generation” weavers and weaver-entrepreneurs with micro-businesses who come to the school to develop their design, techniques, communication and business skills with the goal of getting more customers and developing their own and their weaving communities’ livelihoods.

Fortuitously, we can use the trendy convention of using an x to indicate collaboration, and call this project THSxTHS.

You can always email me with questions: david.goldsmith@hb.se

Looking forward to meeting, working, and learning together.

Best,
David

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