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Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Slow and Steady Wins the Race is a New York city based fashion line founded in 2002. The conceptual line is set up as a clothing dictionary and serves as a go-to place for wardrobe basics. By presenting season-less quarterly issues instead if collections, Slow and Steady Wins the Race breaks the rule that fashion must constantly change.

Manifesto
"Slow and Steady Wins the Race is a conceptual clothing and accessory line that reinterprets the classical everyday wardrobe. It is built on the belief that high design can be, and should be, accessible to all.

''Slow and Steady Wins the Race asks: What do we wear, why do we wear it, and how can we create new classics that are timely and timeless, unique yet universal? The work is a logical dissection of fashion, an investigation into the basic elements of what we wear, and a considered response to the hyper-consumerist pace of fashion.''

''The intention is to push and produce interesting and significant pieces from the simplest fabrics and materials with a focus on the fundamental characteristics of clothing design while contributing a commentary on the anthropology of fashion. The oeuvre serves as a living archive. Each piece, from the earliest to the most current, is still available today as a testament that good design is always relevant.''

''Each perennial collection originates from a sartorial category and introduces a fresh set of styles delivered at a regulated pace year-round. This accelerated pace goes against the usual seasonal schedule as a commentary on modern fashion’s temporal nature. This philosophy behind Slow and Steady Wins the Race breaks the rule that fashion must constantly change. The work is seasonless and proves that good design elicits both an intellectual and emotional response that is ageless, cross-cultural- boundless."''

Collaborations, Exhibitions and Installations
For the S/S 09 issue, Slow and Steady Wins the Race installed a pop-up "department store" at Saatchi & Saatchi Gallery in NY. Bureau V, a NY based architecture firm, created wooden installations to recreate the multi-level experience of a traditional department store.

During the month of December 2009, Slow and Steady Wins the Race had a pop-up shop at Brachfeld gallery in Paris. Artists Oscar Tuazon, Carl Williamson and Dorothée Perret offered their versions of presents, exploring concepts of holiday spirits of giving, discovery and surprises.

In spring 2010, SSWTR had a second installation at Saatchi & Saatchi in New York named "Still Life", using the idea of the still life to, “react to the temporality of the pop-up, and go back to an older tradition of talking about objects." Items were displayed next to works by artists Andrew Kuo, Miranda July, and Tauba Auerbach who's work also dealt with the theme “still life”.

The label has collaborated with Creatures of Comfort, Phillips de Pury & Company and displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2007 Slow and Steady Wins the Race collaborated with Portland based store Stand-up Comedy on an organic rain wear line. The brand exhibited in Ethics + Aesthetics, a curated show addressing the importance of sustainable fashion at the Pratt institute. Designer Mary Ping also lectured at institutions as Parsons the New School for Design and the Rhode Island School of Design about sustainability and "Slow Fashion".

A variety of celebrities including Björk, Terence Koh, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tilda Swinton and Korean pop band Girls' Generation have been known to wear the label. Slow and Steady Wins the Race can be found in boutiques internationally.

Awards
In 2004, designer Mary Ping was one of five winners of the Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation Award.