African textile heritages hold clues to how we can change fashion and disrupt stereotypes. “African fashion is interwoven with values of ancient principles such as sustainability, respect, culture, and knowledge that couldn't be more crucial in modern times,” says...
Slow fashion is not just about countering the speed of an inherently unsustainable fast fashion system. It is also an acknowledgement of the multiplicity of fashion ways needed to build a better fashion system. Slow fashion is a mindset. Kate Fletcher, in her paper...
The annual Ugandan sustainable fashion event, Kwetu Kwanza, acts as a platform to motivate, educate, and empower designers to embrace sustainable fashion and offer the rest of us a glimpse into the fashion industry, both good and bad. This year, the event held at...
How much do you know about where your clothes come from? The answer likely is “not much”. In July, Fashion Revolution released its eighth Transparency Index. The Index is an annual review of 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands and retailers ranked according to...
African textiles are woven pathways to a more sustainable world. With the shared acknowledgment that the production of textiles can contribute to transforming the material conditions of livelihoods across the continent, about 200 people gathered for the...
“We have a crisis of imagination,” said Marina Gattás, Wellbeing Economy Alliance Brazil Hub Co-Lead, during her presentation at the Design Futures Lab 2023. The lab creatives are addressing this failure of imagination. Using possibilities offered by immersive...
An important part of slow fashion is cultivating deeper connections with our clothing. The fast fashion system has convinced us that fashion is purely transactional and clothing is inherently disposable. To heal this system, and create a fair fashion future, we need a...
By mending and repairing your clothing, you are making sure that you can wear it for longer, which means you are slowing down how much you consume and making sure that less goes to waste. There are two common types of mending: visible and invisible. Visible mending is...
It’s no secret that the overproduction of fast fashion has created a global waste problem. Testament to this is West Africa's largest informal secondhand clothing market, called Kantamanto, in Accra, Ghana. The market is not only a dumping site for the global North's...
This year marks the 53rd anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement, commemorated annually as Earth Day. Since 1970, billions of individuals from more than 190 countries worldwide have come together every April 22nd to take action toward a greener,...
Our work is in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 12, which aims to ensure sustainable consumption and production. Read More
