Era of slow fashion

OVER a year after the Rana Plaza disaster, during which the collapse of the factory building in Bangladesh killed over 1,300 people, intricately made apparel with traceable origins has become more appealing to consumers with a conscience. Now, despite the continuing demand for $10 tank tops to don and dump, the notion of buying a $200 scarf that took four days to handcraft isn't quite as foreign as the ingestion of chia seeds to a McDonald's devotee.

"Because we are so use…