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Q&A with Mozambican textile maker Wacy Zacarias

For Mozambican designer, healer, and storyteller Wacy Zacarias, textiles are more than materials: they’re tools for healing, remembering, and regenerating. “I don’t just design with aesthetics in mind,” she says. “I design with purpose, ritual, and relationship.” Sustainability is woven...

July 2, 2025

Q&A: How Up-Fuse repurposes waste from Cairo’s Garbage City

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Q&A: How Up-Fuse repurposes waste from Cairo’s Garbage City

May 12, 2025

Q&A with founders of new African luxury fashion rental platform R’Frique

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Q&A with founders of new African luxury fashion rental platform R’Frique

Luxury redefined: R’Frique is making high-end African fashion more accessible and sustainable—one rental at a time. In this Q&A, founders Ceejay Ndlovu and Lebi Barfour-Osei share how their platform champions slow fashion, celebrates African design, and challenges the norms of...

May 6, 2025

Q&A: Kenyan designer Jamie Kimani uses fashion to foster pride and self-expression

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Q&A: Kenyan designer Jamie Kimani uses fashion to foster pride and self-expression

Jamie Kimani is the founder and creative director of Sevaria, a Nairobi-based brand that includes upcycled and deadstock materials to produce genderfluid pieces. His collections feature made-to-order or limited edition garments, finding inspiration from African cultures and religions. “We’re keen...

March 26, 2025

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How a design duo created their made-in-Nigeria fashion brand This is US

A husband-and-wife design duo were inspired by a chair. A simple, curved wooden design with red upholstery fabric that survived decades in Osione Itegboje’s family home was formative to their Nigerian brand This is Us. What is unique about this...

March 26, 2025

Q&A: Shelley Mokoena of Connade redefines minimalism

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Q&A: Shelley Mokoena of Connade redefines minimalism

March 20, 2025

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Ella Buter has created a much-loved fashion brand with enduring appeal

In an industry dominated by fleeting trends and fast fashion, Ella Buter has carved out a space where timeless design, inclusivity, and thoughtful craftsmanship take centre stage. Her approach—slow, deliberate, and deeply personal—led to the creation of Superella, a brand...

March 10, 2025

Q&A: Hamaji is a love letter to handcraft and heritage

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Q&A: Hamaji is a love letter to handcraft and heritage

Having grown up in Nairobi with a conservationist father and a botanist mother, Louise Sommerlatte has always had an appreciation for the beauty of the natural world. She founded her brand Hamaji − named after the Swahili word for ‘nomadic’ −...

March 6, 2025

Explainer: Cost per wear and why your ‘cheap’ clothing is actually expensive

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Explainer: Cost per wear and why your ‘cheap’ clothing is actually expensive

Fast fashion tricks us into thinking clothes are cheap – but if they fall apart after a few wears, they actually cost us more over time. Enter cost per wear (CPW). This is a simple way to rethink clothing value...

March 5, 2025

What are the origins of the Asante’s famous kente cloth?

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What are the origins of the Asante’s famous kente cloth?

Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana’s Asante people, part of their historical and cultural heritage. But there’s a debate about where it originated: the Bonwire community or the Adanwomase community in the Ashanti Region. The Conversation Africa spoke...

March 4, 2025

There is soft power in contemporary textile art

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There is soft power in contemporary textile art

Every time I visit the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, I make it my mission to seek out the textile art. In earlier years I had to hunt for these pieces, most of which were woven. More recently, however, I’ve...

March 3, 2025

Explainer: The struggle for size inclusivity

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Explainer: The struggle for size inclusivity

Finding plus-size, sustainable fashion shouldn’t be this hard. Many small brands struggle to expand their size range due to cost and expertise, while plus size shoppers are left with few options – often turning to unsustainable retailers like Shein. So...

February 27, 2025

Look at us – the new campaign by Wanda Lephoto

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Look at us – the new campaign by Wanda Lephoto

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February 1, 2025

The living fashion history of the Kaapse Klopse

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The living fashion history of the Kaapse Klopse

For over a century, the streets of Cape Town have become an explosion of song, dance and colourful costumes on the 2nd of January. Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Afrikaans for ‘Second New Year’) is an annual minstrel festival originating from a...

January 2, 2025

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Our top 9 fashion moments of 2024

As 2024 draws to an end, we have compiled a list of our top 9 fashion moments of the year. Some are moments we curated for you, others are events that we believe are transformative and progressive for fashion. And...

December 18, 2024

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Q&A with Mozambican textile maker Wacy Zacarias

Q&A: How Up-Fuse repurposes waste from Cairo’s Garbage City

Q&A with founders of new African luxury fashion rental platform R’Frique

Q&A: Kenyan designer Jamie Kimani uses fashion to foster pride and self-expression

How a design duo created their made-in-Nigeria fashion brand This is US

Q&A: Shelley Mokoena of Connade redefines minimalism

Ella Buter has created a much-loved fashion brand with enduring appeal

Q&A: Hamaji is a love letter to handcraft and heritage

Explainer: Cost per wear and why your ‘cheap’ clothing is actually expensive

What are the origins of the Asante’s famous kente cloth?

There is soft power in contemporary textile art

Explainer: The struggle for size inclusivity

Look at us – the new campaign by Wanda Lephoto

The living fashion history of the Kaapse Klopse

Our top 9 fashion moments of 2024

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