Shop Slow tackles fast fashion, sustainability, and community-building in one fell, crafty swoop.
Tucked away on a corner of South Austin , a Salmon River - pinkish cottage haven rack of meticulously thrifted textiles , in - advancement art undertaking , and hanging garlands of miniature quilted fruit ornament . This isShop Slow . A dual - identity bespoke clothing store and workshop space , Shop Slow offer workshops and class , remedy not only tattered togs but the community — one cross - run up at a time .
Shop Slow was put up out of a classic conundrum for any artist : discover the right studio apartment space . Owner and decorator Rebecca Wright was struggling to find a location where her vesture business , Psychic Outlaw , could call home . Wright transforms up - cycle material — vintage tablecloths and heirloom quilt — into forms of wearable artistry , from corset to crownwork . Alongside Wright , Shop Slow ’s originative director and chief operating officer Mikaela Friedman wants to “ open people ’s eye to the possible action of what your vesture can be . ” And , by extension , make a space where people attach over sustainability and self - enough .
At Shop Slow , you could corrupt such pieces as colourful sunglass cases made from terry cloth towels , patchwork denim , andcustomized , painted cowpoke boots fromFriedman ’s own firebrand . “ We would have sex to not sell anything and just make cool clobber , ” Friedman remark , “ but , because of capitalism , we are forced to do this . So , why not do it in a elbow room that ’s coolheaded and dissimilar , and generate hoi polloi autonomy back over their press ? ”
Shop Slow’s Mikaela Friedman and Rebecca Wright|Photo by Hannah Koehler @minkmade
study this ethos , knight by Friedman as “ creative thinking over consumption , ” the shops popular workshop turn an eye toward obtuse fashion . pupil learn skills such as sewing , dyeing , embroidery , and filmdom - impression , to name a few . ( We have the latest computer programming down below . ) When you take a grade , though , do n’t expect to walk out with merely a nerveless screen print T - shirt and ink - covered work force . You ’ll provide with penetration into the impact your even shopping habits have in your local residential district and on the environment .
“ I intend that ’s a vast part of what we ’re hear to do with our shop , ” say Wright , “ not just get the great unwashed in the door to make money , but have these conversation with people about sluggish mode , the planet , how things are made , and supporting small business . We ’re just information sharing , having fun , and being cute and useable . ”
The fundament of every year is based on using recycle stuff , with students encouraged to bring clothing they already own to put their unique whirl on . to boot , most of the actual shaft put through in these sessions , such as the mesh used to produce a screenland - printing screen , are up - cycled as well . Friedman , specifically , construct the classes she teach found on “ whatever material I can find . ” The connection made in the classroom setting are equally as constituent . “ We ’ve had a couple people come in here who just need , emotionally , a clinch which was so nice , ” Friedman recount . “ It feel more like a residential district than a sewing class . ”
Photo by Hannah Koehler @minkmade
“ You ’re doing something good for the environment and something respectable for your nous , ” Wright says . “ Whether you ’re coming alone or with champion … I just experience like only good thing can total from joining in . ”
Shop Slow Workshops
Soul Studio Ice - Dying WorkshopJune 8
restore Workshop with Rebecca Wright of Psychic OutlawJune 15
Sashiko : Strengthening the fabricJune 16
Photo by Hannah Koehler @minkmade
Intro to Embroidery with Sloane LenzJune 22
Stencil & Spray Bleach Modification for beginnersJune 23
