Today on Business Daily with me Vivian Nunes, we're in the remote mountain villages of China's Guayjo province.

You've heard about fast fashion, how about slow fashion?

We hear from one New York designer who's harnessing the ancient crafts of indigenous people

to create clothes with a much lower environmental impact.

And we hear from a campaigner who's changing the way big brands source Wai. to create clothes with a much lower environmental impact.

And we hear from a campaigner who's changing the way big brands source one of the most commonly used fabrics in our wardrobes today,

viscose, traditionally made from the wood pulp of trees.

Rethinking the clothes we wear.

That's Business Daily from the BBC.

My name is Angel Chang. I'm a zero-carbon women's wear designer based in New York, and I work with indigenous

artisans to create clothing that's entirely handmade using ancient techniques that follow

the cycles of nature.

Angel Chang left her job in the high-pressure world of designer fashion a decade ago.

Today she runs her own clothing line, employing communities in mountainous rural Chinese villages to grow cotton and make her collection

by hand. The women you can hear are part of the Dong minority. They sing while they sew,

sitting around a table laden with waxberry fruit, which grows wild in the mountain forests

of southern China.

Angel told us how she exchanged the catwalks of New York for rural Guajjo province.

I was in Shanghai on a family trip maybe 12 years ago,

and I went to the Shanghai Museum,

and on the top of the museum were ethnic costumes

from all minorities across China and the costumes that I loved the most were from the Miao people

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