A material for keeping

摘要

Just as time, care, love and the judicious choice of materials sets slow food apart from fast food, there are slow fashion products that mark a more peaceful and natural rhythm an the drum-machine beat and bang of fast fashion. Serial entrepreneur, Arturas Kanapkis, has an appreciation of this that belies his years. He is the founder of Lithuanian leathergoods brand Time Resistance, creating it, not by accident, but initially as part of an ambitious numbers game. He knew he wanted to go into business but he wasn't sure exactly what sort of business he wanted to set up. While still a student, he began to launch a series of start-ups, often two or three at a time, looking closely to see which ideas appeared to have legs and which did not. His early ideas included an online fragrance business, one for setting people up to grow their own garlic, a series of vegetable stalls in local markets, and one to source old brick for new building projects.