Fashion
August 3, 2020
South Africa’s coolest denim brand launches womenswearLike many businesses during COVID-19, TSHEPO Jeans has innovated its operations. Besides his bricks and mortar boutique store and atelier at Victoria Yards in Johannesburg, designer Tshepo Mohlala’s jeans and ...
July 31, 2020
Q&A: Research Unit takes a long view on sustainabilityChad and Erin-Lee Petersen launched Cape Town-based utilitarian lifestyle brand, Research Unit in 2011. Nine years later, the couple showcased their debut womenswear collection entitled 'Pilgrim' at the SA Fashion ...
July 30, 2020
Lezanne Viviers: Imagine if plastic were as valuable as gold?Johannesburg’s luxury design brand VIVIERS Studio has reimagined plastic as a scarce resource. With plastic waste materials, creative director Lezanne Viviers has made a luxury trench coat following the principle ...
July 27, 2020
Front row seats for everyone at the digital SA Menswear Week SS21South African Menswear Week SS21 joins the global movement to showcase 18 fashion collections digitally this season. Co-founder of SA Menswear Week Simon Deiner is very excited. “We kickstart the ...
July 23, 2020
Onesimo Bam layers plastic waste to create his One I Am bagOnesimo Bam is a surface designer, artist and the founder of One I Am who made a recycled plastic bag that forms part of the five-part #RefashionPlastic collection. For this ...
July 21, 2020
The Sewing Café launches its first collection of classicsEarlier this month, The Sewing Café, a community-based studio, launched an in-house clothing label, Min, which is available online and at Saint Sienna in Kalk Bay. The sustainable basics collection ...
July 19, 2020
18 Fashion brands ensuring South Africans don’t break the lawIn this article you will find a non-exhaustive list of sustainable fashion brands in South Africa who recognise their responsibility to give back through properly made masks that are made ...
July 16, 2020
For #RefashionPlastic Our Workshop weaves baskets from recycled plasticOur Workshop is one of the five design studios involved with Refashion Plastic. For this project the design team created the recycled plastic basket in which the refashioned plastic waste ...
July 13, 2020
Simon and Mary hats take shape with natural fabricsSustainability is at the core of the Simon and Mary family business. Besides establishing a business that has grown with one generation to the next, the Pozniak family has made ...
July 3, 2020
Model activist Liyanna B talks sustainability and influencer culture in 2020Black and Brown folks have always been sustainable, it’s not a foreign concept, if anything it’s been a way of life from the beginning of time for many of us. ...
July 3, 2020
How designer Hamzeh Alfarahneh refashions his kitchen’s plastic wasteIn 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. ...
June 22, 2020
The innovation and sustainability of creating images during lockdownIn her monthly column, Modupe Oloruntoba says creative solutions for working around COVID-19 restrictions may offer new avenues for improving sustainability in fashion image production. ...
June 19, 2020
Q&A with designer Tessa O’Halloran on rethinking plastic wasteExciting things are happening in a small studio in the Karoo where plasticity. re-imagines waste plastic. This bespoke upcycling company based in Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape was founded by ...
June 17, 2020
10 Shoe brands we’re loving right nowWe’ve been on the lookout for sustainable footwear brands on the South African and international market that combine comfort, sustainability, and social responsibility. We’ve come up with a list of ...
June 15, 2020
Shift in FlowFashion is exploring and evolving as it breaks away from hallowed traditions. It might very well be in the process of becoming an industry that considers its impact on the ...