African Renaissance Designs celebrates the aesthetic traditions of the Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swati tribes. Head designer of the brand and Design Indaba 2020 emerging creative Siphelele Ntombela...
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Vogue Italia’s blank cover suggests an infinite sadness and the beginning of a new story
The cover of Vogue Italia's April 2020 edition is blank. Gone is the original cover photograph, which showed a model wearing a blue-checked Louis Vuitton twin suit against a blue backdrop, her gaze...
Pending: Khayelitsha Fashion Week celebrates African fashion heritage
Zola Booi, fashion designer, founder of the Fashion Entrepreneur Training Programme and an ambassador of National Youth Development Agency writes about plans for Khayelitsha Fashion Week during the...
Ashley Heather turns e-waste into jewellery you’ll want to keep forever
Ashley Heather fell into jewellery making by accident. But since she first spotted a crucible of molten silver she has married her commitment to slow fashion and mindful consumption with her...
3 Easy steps to revamping your wardrobe during lockdown
Did you know that the most sustainable clothes are the ones you already own? So use lockdown to get to know what is in your wardrobe - one of the most vital steps to becoming a sustainable...
Why sustainability departments are old-fashioned
Instead of applying sustainability practices across its entire business, the fashion industry has introduced them in a piecemeal fashion. Now, as we peer over a precipice of radical and unplanned...
Fashion must change. Lucilla Booyzen explains why
In a matter of days SA Fashion Week's Spring Summer shows went from being a conventional live event to going digital to being postponed. Despite this, the work of SA Fashion Week will continue. We...
The time for slow fashion is now
Now without a doubt, it’s time to stand with slow fashion. Featuring Ghanaian model Napari, shot by a South African team, at Langebaan along the West Coast, this magical shoot celebrates slow...
Fashion in the time of coronavirus
Talking fashion during a time of coronavirus seems fickle, but it's in fact really important. Many institutions and organisations have had to take difficult decisions to help stop the spread of...
The beauty of doing good
Beauty is an idea, a feeling, an abstraction that means something different to everyone. It is the subject of an age-old debate. Two weeks ago, South Africa took the conversation into a very...
A new wave of fashion washes up onto our shores
Don't be deceived. What looks like a pearl, is not a pearl. A creative team working with photographer Thirza Schaap has turned ocean plastic pollution into art - including a plastic deodorant roller...
Design Indaba inspires us to take our cues from nature
Anyone working in sustainability is pondering the big question of how we can meet the growing demand for stuff without destroying the environment. If you attended Design Indaba 2020, you’d be...
Sexy Jocks bring circular design to your underwear drawer
If you’re looking to only wear sustainable clothes (including vintage, natural fibres, upcycled or recycled clothes), Dave Hutchison’s recent business venture might be the last piece of your...
The Clothing Banks celebrates ten years and 10 million saved garments
Since its launch ten years ago, multi-award winning social enterprise The Clothing Bank has revived 10 million items of clothing waste (worth R600 million)
What does the SA Plastics Pact mean for fashion retail?
When the South African Plastics Pact launched last month most of the buzz was about reducing, recycling and reusing plastic packaging. Conversation was thin regarding the synthetic fibre content of...