In a celebration of local fashion, this past weekend, SA Menswear Week (SAMW), in partnership with Week of Fashion, showcased its biggest selection of designers to date, with over 106 designers...
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Could the hidden chemicals in clothes be affecting your health?
Toxic chemicals are used and released all along the fashion supply chain from the production of the raw materials to the finishing of garments. These are enormous challenges to sustainability and to...
Viviers Studio takes local collaborations to Milan Fashion Week
South Africa is known for its vast natural landscapes: Lush forests and arid deserts, rocky mountain summits, and engulfing oceans. VIVIERS Studio's FW23/24 collection, Karroo-land of Thirsts,...
13 Size-inclusive slow fashion brands leading change in the South African industry
As we collectively forge a new future for fashion, we need to ensure that the slow fashion movement is inclusive and accessible. For plus-sized people, the opportunities to engage with sustainable...
South African story-tailor Cleo Droomer uses fashion to restory the past and shape the future
South African story-tailor Cleo Droomer's design practice is engaged with the philosophical – and practical – enquiry into how the future should embody the past. In a fashion industry that is...
Township studio Patch and Stitch makes mending matter
Tucked away on a quiet street in the heart of Daveyton township on the east of Johannesburg, you'll find Patch and Stitch. Collen Shoko and Lesego Masilela opened the doors to their alterations and...
Greenwashing fades out of fashion as regulators clamp down
Global fashion brands in 2023 are under renewed pressure to get their houses in order. This is as regulators get tough on greenwashing in an industry that is, according to the United Nations...
Ocean-friendly fashion steals the show at the One Blue Heart gala
Since its invention in the late 1800s, plastic has become ubiquitous in our lives – in our homes, streets, oceans, and clothing. In fact, plastic-based fabrics make up more than 60% of what we wear....
Nigerian designer Adejoke Lasisi is turning plastic water sachets into high fashion
At only nine years old, Adejoke Lasisi began learning to weave aso-oke under the watchful eyes of her mother. It would take her another 15 years to master this traditional handwoven fabric of the...
Me&B kickstarts a circular fashion journey with this new collection
From reinventing a dress as a two-piece for easy mix-and-match styling to headbands and scrunchies made from leftover fabric, Me&B’s latest ME&NT To B collection has circular design at its...
Fashion has a transparency issue
The transparency that may exist within the fashion industry is chiefly found in the first and second tiers of the manufacturing process. These tiers are the operations closest to the consumer, such...
“Out of Sight, Out of Mind” – The hidden impacts of fashion’s convoluted supply chain
If you’re buying fast fashion, chances are your clothes have been on a long, unseen journey passing through many different hands in many different countries. It may be the convoluted norm of...
PAIS Agency makes images to inspire new fashion futures
The fashion industry thrives because of the way clothing is represented in the media and the aspirations this shapes. As an extension of fashion, fashion photography echoes the systemic imbalances...
16 Ways to put slow fashion into practice
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...
9 Ways to spot slow fashion brands
Fast fashion brands create clothing that is cheaply and rapidly made in large quantities. This clothing copies styles worn on runways, by celebrities, on social media, and created by independent...