Artist and designer Heath Nash, founded Our Workshop in 2016 to create a free-to-use space where 23 members gather, share knowledge and make stuff. Heath first opened the workshop in the centre of Cape Town. A year later it moved to Langa to be closer to where his...
From a young, dynamic milliner working in an old Cape Town building, comes a fresh idea. Crystal Birch has launched Happy Hats by Crystal Birch, taking her design practice into the future of a circular economy. For the #RefashionPlastic campaign, Crystal repurposed...
In the first of five articles about designers who participated in the #RefashionPlastic campaign for Plastic Free Mzansi, Hamzeh Alfarahneh explains the shift in thinking this project inspired.
We don’t have much time to change consumption habits and production patterns to address climate change and social justice. To save you time, we have curated this list of essential resources.
On show this season are not new summer trends, but the fashion industry’s nasty underbelly. What is being done to address this? Here are three encouraging actions that been taken.
Four South African brands were assessed by Fashion Revolution for its Transparency Index 2020 which was released last month. All of them scored within the 11 - 20% range, which is below average. While this is the second year Mr Price was scored, Truworths, Woolworths...
Nkwo is the founder founder and creative director of the Nigerian artisanal clothing brand NKWO. The environmentally-conscious brand is rooted in ‘the philosophy of less’.
The South African clothing and textile industry responded swiftly to COVID-19 to protect workers, and many businesses are making personal protective gear. Is this enough to sustain a struggling sector?
The IAMISIGO mission is to decolonise the mind thoroughly. Creative director Babu Ogisi finds little-known historical stories in remote African communities and applies these to fibres and garments, “as a form of silent protest to post and neo-colonialism”. Babu who is...
These tried and tested local Cape Town food brands are perfect to kickstart your lockdown level 4. With the press of a button, you can have fresh tasty treats at your doorstep in no time. Cool Bananas – The Vegologist Situated in Maitland, Cool Bananas is a fresh...
Our work is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 12, which aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production. Read More
