Figuring out how to lighten your footprint and reduce your carbon emissions is overwhelming. Firstly, it feels too hard − we live in complex and intersecting social, economic and political systems that have evolved over a very long time. Secondly, we are regularly...
Explainer: What the global tariff war means (for fashion)
Everyone is in a state of shock at the trade war that has broken out after the US introduced new tariffs to penalise countries that export more goods and services to the US than they import from the US. It’s been a week of chaos in the markets and deep uncertainty...
Now is not the time to go “back to plastics”
Plastics resource extraction, production, and use are out of control. This is what a group of renowned scientists have declared. Plastics are driving climate change, polluting our environment, entering our bloodstreams and even our brains. For these reasons – and more...
Good Good Good takes Mekeka Designs barkcloth to Paris Fashion Week
At the Africa Textile Talks in August 2024, Ugandan textile experts Josephine Mukasa and Pamela Kyagera presented barkcloth—an indigenous and renewable Ugandan textile—to an audience of 200 in Cape Town. The designers from Good Good Good were in attendance, and five...
Green your fashion with GOTS
In an ideal world, all fashion and textiles should have positive impacts on people and planet. The production of fibres and fabrics should not harm soil health, water, biodiversity, and people. Instead, the reality is that textile production continues to drive climate...
Our top 9 fashion moments of 2024
As 2024 draws to an end, we have compiled a list of our top 9 fashion moments of the year. Some are moments we curated for you, others are events that we believe are transformative and progressive for fashion. And then, although, we don’t think this podcast is going...
Decolonising fashion: Lesiba Mabitsela’s journey to Afro-sustainability
Lesiba Mabitsela is a South African designer, thinker, gentle agitator and researcher whose output is characterised by a deep respect for the world and those who inhabit it. He is also the co-founder of African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) and the project lead of...
From forest to fabric with Sappi
The demand for wood-based fabrics, including viscose and lyocell, is growing. Broadly, there are two reasons for this – people are drawn to the qualities of these fabrics, and as their concern grows for climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation...
Explore tradition through the lens of 18 designers applying African fashion practices
A gallery in Nairobi was the site of a recent exhibition titled Tradition(al). It was anything but traditional. The works of 18 African fashion designers were showcased in the Kenyan capital from 4 – 12 April, forming part of a larger Dutch initiative called the State...
Book a table at Confections x Collections 2023 for a fashion showcase and afternoon tea
Confections x Collections is back for a second edition. Set against Table Mountain in the heart of Cape Town this annual coming-together of creative expression fuses five days of exclusive salon-style fashion shows with designer-inspired confectionery. Taking place...