FASHION BASICS – JURY BRIEF Fashion in context to slow fashion and craft - a Case Study Yashasavi Sinha Year I (Semester I) B.Des (Fashion Communication) Fashion Basics – Jury Brief Fashion in context to slow fashion and craft – a Case Study Introduction: Fashion world today is faced with two opposing concepts of Fast Fashion and its Slow variant. On the one hand, Fast Fashion denotes lower-quality, low-priced, mass-produced and machine-made garments that lose their colour, shape and texture after a few washes, quickly end up in landfills, have adverse environmental effects and are characterized by unfair treatment of worker. On the other hand, Slow Fashion garments are made by hand, consume time to produce, use artistic talent, have better quality, long life and are priced higher. Slow fashion is characterized by use of fibres from organic and recycled materials, less chemicals, dyes, energy, less resource, less waste and min...