Slow Fashion - Matt & Nat bags combine urban chic with ethical principles
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Slow Fashion - Matt & Nat bags combine urban chic with ethical principles

There aren't many fashion brands that started life with a challenge from a Mahatma, but vegan accessories company Matt & Nat is one of them. Fifteen years ago, founder and creative director Inder...

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Slow Food - Cox Cookies & Cake opens today
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Slow Food - Cox Cookies & Cake opens today

Award-winning Master Patissier Eric Lanlard, aka Cake Boy, has teamed up with celebrity shoe designer Patrick Cox for his latest artisan venture, Cox Cookies & Cake, opening in London's Soho...

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Fast Girl Goes Slow - The stranger in my home
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Fast Girl Goes Slow - The stranger in my home

I'll be giving you a break from my weekly scribble after this column, but first I must tell you about the most lovely and unexpected experience I had this week, one that would not have happened if I...

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So, how do you travel Slowly?
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So, how do you travel Slowly?

Want to know what Slow Travel really means? Well, here's what I think it means, in a neat 10 points. If you agree, or disagree, please do leave a comment below, and let's work it out together. 1...

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Cool Cycling - When NeilPryde met BMW
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Cool Cycling - When NeilPryde met BMW

I'm a man, yes I am and I can't help but love...gawping at kit. By kit, read anything gadgety, mechanical, useful, playful, probably extortionately expensive and lower priority but more likely to...

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Slow Food - Top 50 Cookbooks Of All Time spans the globe, decades and goes Slow

Brit newspaper The Observer has built an enviable reputation for its food coverage in its Observer Food Monthly, loved amongst Slow Food fans in the...

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Slow Fashion - Sherlock wears cult Brit brand Belstaff

Did you see Sherlock, the BBC adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes stories, recently? Do you remember that dramatic, sweeping, Sherlockian coat he...

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Fast Girl Goes Slow - Wanted: New home for life

Readers, we are trying to choose where to live for the next forty or so years, and not surprisingly it's proving to be a bit tricky. What's obvious...

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Slow Commuting - 10 reasons why running home from work rocks

For anyone who's ever sat on a bus, on the tube or in a car, frustrated, hot and losing the will to live, rejoice, there are other options and some...

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Cool cycling - Bring a little bicycle love into your home

I can think of only a couple of reasons not to own a bicycle. One is not needing to, thanks to the bicycle hire schemes popping up in capital cities...

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Slow Food - Learn to cook authentic Morrocan food, in Marrakech

If Slow Living is about meaningful experiences, cherishing local cultures, consuming with a conscience, treading lightly on the planet and enriching...

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Slow Beauty - The incredible story of Dr Bronner

At the heart of the Slow Movement is the notion of preserving crafts and valuing the handmade. The reason isn't just about enjoying the quality of...

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Fast Girl Goes Slow - A week in which life changes, a lot

Can an urban-dwelling workaholic new mum, hooked on Twitter and re-runs of 24, genuinely go Slow? Lawks, I hope so. I'm exhausted! The boyfriend...

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