Slow and Steady Wins the Race is a new clothing label, presented as a bimonthly clothing diary, cataloguing ideas that are focused on a specific and fundamental characteristic of clothing design.
      With each issue, Slow and Steady Wins the Race intends to slowly open
the cap on a more democratic dissemination, promotion and appreciation of clothing.
      The mission of the label is to push and produce interesting and significant pieces from the simplest fabrics and materials.
      If one were to take a moment to pause and breathe, one would realize the density of information, material and history the world has accumulated and fashion’s immense contribution to those realms.
      The last fifty years has seen fashion’s rapid growth, influence and far-reaching arms wrapping in, out and around culture and society.

      And with each passing year, new
faces and new ideas pop into existence, which in turn sprout, float and germinate into more categorical stuff.
As a result, a decided amount is kept
and a more considerable amount is
laid to waste.
      Slow and Steady Wins the Race is a quiet reaction to this fact.
      Its aim is to yield a limited number
of fresh pieces in a regulated pace throughout the calendar year. This accelerated pace is a commentary on modern fashion’s temporal nature.
      The costs and quantity of production are purposefully kept low to help promote the idea of a democratic and grass-roots distribution.
      Through this visual and social metaphor, Slow and Steady Wins the Race hopes to have its ideas and products reach a wide audience and foster the appreciation and creative progression of clothing design.

The first issue of Slow and Steady Wins the Race is about the seamed edge.

      The six pieces, a tank top, two t-shirts, a jacket, a skirt, and a bag, all in 100% cotton, have design attributes playing within their seams.

The second issue of Slow and Steady Wins the Race is about prints.

      The six original prints are exercises in stripping away the main characteristics of print: color, repeat and flat pattern, resulting in block compositions of black, three dimensional shapes with no repetitions.

      The prints sit on the sternum of white, collarless short sleeve and sleeveless cotton T-shirts.

The third issue of Slow and Steady Wins the Race is about the designer handbag.

      The bags are based on the modern-day iconic handbag and are all executed in plain cotton muslin or canvas twill and then distilled to the sparest details of hardware and shape to identify it with its original. Through this process, the hi- fashion designer bag becomes a lo-fi object sketch and consequently an alternate icon of itself.

Six shift dresses stripped bare serve as a foundation for their pocket champions.

      The designs investigate the placement and functionality fundamental to a pocket.

      The background in which pockets exist is reduced to a simple shift, a flat base to emphasize and focus on how the pockets sit on a garment.

The sixth and anniversary issue of Slow and Steady Wins the Race is about color choices.

      Color’ is a consortium of shapes, combinations and multiple plays.

      Each set includes ten shapes designed to ‘mix and match’ according to the wearer's whim.

The seventh issue of Slow and Steady Wins the Race is about the modern phenomenon of total designer branding and its expansion into underwear. This also marks the special second anniversary of paying tribute to the strong visual identities of fashion labels.

      The designs for this collection are inspired by Calvin Klein, Chanel, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Martin Margiela, Comme des Garçons and Viktor & Rolf. The classic kits includes the ‘Yves Saint Laurent Inspired Underwear Set’, the ‘Designer Quilted Underwear Set’ and the ‘Gucci Inspired Underwear Set’. The Avant-Garde kits include the ‘Martin Margiela Inspired Underwear Set’, the ‘Comme des Garcçons Inspired Underwear Set’ and the ‘Viktor & Rolf Inspired Underwear Set’. And finally, reserved for the pioneer of designer underwear, is the ‘Special Tribute Kit for Calvin Klein’.

The eighth issue of Slow and Steady Wins the Race is about the white shirt. 'Shirt' reinterprets the silhouette of the standard white shirt through subverting and abstracting the standard roles of its design characteristics of collars, cuffs, buttons and plackets.

The ninth issue of Slow and Steady Wins the Race concentrates on menswear. The collection takes one style from each previous Slow and Steady Wins the Race issues and reintroduces it in a man's silhouette.

This issue of Slow and Steady Wins the Race focuses on the simplest and most basic piece of modern dressing: the white pocket t-shirt. The white- t-shirt silhouette is the foundation for an experiment in texture and materiality, juxtaposing a familiar item with not so familiar fabrications. The single style is executed in ten varying materials.

The eleventh installment of Slow and Steady Wins the Race is a follow-up collection to the successful canvas bags of No. 3. These bags are hybridizations of the iconic Hardware, Dior, Gucci, Hermes Birkin, Cotton Quilted Bag and more recently, As Four. Key features are selected and recombined into a single bag, forming a contrast collage of designer details executed in utilitarian duck canvas. In addition to the Hardware/Gucci or Birkin/As Four, the piece de la resistance is ‘The Ultimate,’ a bag loaded with every iconic bag's characteristics. ‘The New Bag’ is a visual hyperbolic expression about contemporary fashion’s attention and obsession with designer handbags.

This installment of Slow and Steady
Wins the Race is about evening wear.
The ten pieces, when combined, form
a complete wardrobe of the basic accoutrements of evening dress.

      Included in the suite are two tuxedo jackets, two tuxedo pant silhouettes,
one tuxedo shirt, one evening blouse,
one long silk dress, one cummerbund fannypack, one evening clutch and
an assemblage of accessories such as cufflinks and dress clips.

      This particular collection is an exercise of essential elegance and is defined by the distillation of traditional characteristics of western evening
dress: tuxedo styling, the color black,
the sue of silk, the sheen of pearls, and
the refinement of cufflinks.

Standard Bag is a simple statement on turning the ordinary upside-down and subverting it into something more extraordinary by combining two extremes. Generic grocery and market bags are executed in fine leathers for live object oxymorons.

      3 styles x 2 fabrications equal 6 new bags from Slow and Steady Wins the Race.

      Bodega Bag (black leather, chestnut lambskin), Kraft Carrier (tobacco suede, white leather), Drawstring Sac (printed crocodile lambskin, curry suede)

Knit is a long-standing craft that involves manipulating continuous yarn into a piece of fabric. Beginning with the basic stitch and pattern, pieces in this collection provide an introduction to the knitted garment or accessory. Executed in soft baby alpaca or cashmere, the items complete a full range from scarves, mittens and a hat to a cardigan, dress, turtleneck and cashmere sweatpants.

Shoe is the first collection of footwear for Slow and Steady Wins the Race. It is a simple catalogue of current but classic silhouettes based off of basic heel heights: flat, pump and platform. The styles include: 2 wedges, a ballet flat, a polychromatic oxford and a pump covered entirely of natural, unbleached canvas and displaying characteristic trademarks of each type. From these standards, new styles will follow in time.

Slow and Steady Wins the Race presents a collection of sunglasses reduced and purified in design to the elementary characteristics of eyewear: lens shape, frame shapes and fixtures.

      Six styles inlude: basic circle frame, basic square frame, circle frame with square lens, square frame with circle lens, and circle and square frames connected with a hinge in the middle.

      Available in red, black, white, clear, grey and tortoise.

Nº17 Jewelry builds design out of function. Traditional jewelry components and findings are reconfigured as focal points in each piece.

      Exceuted in sterling silver, The jump ring necklace, the clip on post earrings, the link bracelet are subtle in their witty attributes.

      A secondary offering of pearls: necklace linked into earrings, a cluster of freshwater pearls piled on as a broach and a strand wrapped around to form a ring are all modern but twisted interpretations of the traditional idea of what a pearl necklace should look like.

The Slow and Steady Wins the Race wedding dress is a challenge in form, ideas and meaning. For one of the most important items in a woman’s wardrobe, Slow and Steady Wins the Race will
distill it to its purest form without diluting the powerful meaning behind the motions, emotions and rituals surrounding our perceived ideas of marriage. The dress will be a guarded mystery until the final exit in the runway show.

Coming soon.

Luxe is Slow and Steady Wins the Race's introductory dialogue on luxury goods and design. The collection forms a pyramid with three tiers organized by price points: $1,000, $10,000, $100,000.

      For $1,000, there are luxury basics: a cream pearl embroidered T shirt, an alligator skin grocery bag, and a four sided leather Birkin-inspired bag. For $10,000, there is a black velvet evening gown with matching fox fur stole, pearls and other accessories also constructed in black velvet. For $100,000, the ultimate luxury basic for Slow and Steady Wins the Race: a Russian sable trench coat.

This installment is the first collaboration between Slow and Steady Wins the Race and the wonderful store Stand-Up Comedy in Portland. It is a simple catalogue of rainwear staples inspired by Portland’s rainy weather: trenchcoats, ponchos, rainboots, rain caps, umbrellas and an ultimate cargo backpack carryall. Waterproof materials, local production and a celebration of Portland’s dedication to green fashion and nature will be additional highlights to this special design collaboration.

Coming soon.