The make-good brand was launched in Johannesburg in 2021 by Carlo Gibson and Toni Rothbart to channel the duos skills, capabilities and experience. By connecting communities, creative industries, and funding Carlo - a fashion designer and social innovator - and Toni...
Design Futures Lab 2022 Creatives Use Immersive Technology to Envision Inclusive Fashion Futures
Fashion is a powerful medium for storytelling, reflecting the zeitgeist and challenging the status quo. In a time of compounding planetary and social crises, sustainability has repositioned fashion as a force for good. Alongside fashion, immersive technology and new...
SA Fashion Week 2022 Maps a Sustainable Way Forward
We can no longer deny the fashion industry’s role in the layered social and ecological crises playing out across the world. But, fashion also adds immense value to our lives as a medium for expression, storytelling, and creativity. And so, fashion practitioners are...
The Red Dress Threads Together Stories of Embroiderers Around the World
“As far as I know, this is the slowest dress that has ever been made. It’s a real antithesis to the fast fashion movement and instead of treating workers and artisans without respect and integrity, in this dress the artisans are elevated to centre stage. They are the...
The District Six Huis Kombuis Memory Project uses Homecrafts to Evoke Memory
“At the District Six Museum, we are trying to facilitate a pilgrimage of return. We want people who lived in District Six to feel a sense of belonging because if you don’t have roots, you feel lost,” says Tina Smith, Head of Exhibitions at the District Six Museum. The...
Q&A: Mother of Gao designer reflects on her slow, nature-inspired process
I first came across Mother of Gao on Instagram and was immediately drawn to their warm, welcoming earth tones and products that balance form and beauty while prioritising a mindful design process. Natural dyeing and making use of fabric waste is central to Mother of...
The Keiskamma Art Project retrospective will make South African art history
Today, Freedom Day, marks 28 years since South Africa became a democracy. Despite this, our collective project for freedom and justice is far from over. So many stories are missing from our public consciousness and historical canons – stories belonging to silenced...
Cowgirlblues hand-dyes local, natural yarns that soothe our souls
Knitting is one of those nostalgic tactile practices that we turn to for its soothing effect. In our busy lifestyles, we can’t keep up with our minds and urgently need a return to our hands. This return to our hands is exactly what inspired Bridget Henderson to start...
Discover South African brands with The Local Edit App
To embrace the ethos of slow fashion, we need to choose community over convenience. And, if we want to grow the slow fashion community, we need to find ways to make it accessible to different kinds of people with different lifestyles. As urbanistas we’ve become used...
Q&A: Sibabalwe Ndlwana finds sustainable design solutions in traditional practice and nature
Sibabalwe Ndlwana is a Cape Town-based weaving artist, textile designer, and researcher. Her practice as a textile maker focuses on utilising the meditative processes of handweaving, weaving together personal narratives, memory, and abstract landscapes while paying...