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World Circular Economy Forum 2022 will focus on African innovation

The World Circular Economy Forum 2022 will be hosted on the African continent between 6 – 8 December. It is focused on addressing the effects of climate change and on solutions in an African context. Despite having a negligible contribution...

December 5, 2022

Fashion

How decolonised African fashion is inhabiting the V&A Museum

The Africa Fashion exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, seeks to reconsider and reflect the rich makings and functioning of Africa’s recent fashion history and industry. Since countries across the African continent gained independence from colonial rule, African creatives have used...

August 24, 2022

Q&A: NOKI connects upcycling with African storytelling

Fashion

Q&A: NOKI connects upcycling with African storytelling

NOKI is a Mozambican upcycled jewellery and lifestyle brand. The handcrafted product reflect a commitment to creating wearable art and storytelling medium. Founded by Mozambican-Spanish Maputo-based multidisciplinary artist, Dilayla Romeo, NOKI was brought into the world during the early stages...

August 5, 2022

Fashion

Why the V&A’s new Africa Fashion exhibition is important – and long overdue

Fashion is a catalyst to tell deeper, richer, expanded stories from across the African continent. We hope visitors will be inspired and assumptions will be challenged. Christine Checinska, curator A landmark show has recently opened its doors at the V&A...

July 11, 2022

The Herding Academy highlights the importance of herders in regenerative farming

Features

The Herding Academy highlights the importance of herders in regenerative farming

The Herding Academy, based in Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape, teaches people to use livestock as a regenerative tool starting with eco-literacy, much of which is inculcated in indigenous farming practices. “Herders are going to become the most important people...

June 7, 2022

Fashion

Selling Brazilian fashion, the women of Angola’s ‘suitcase trade’ spot trends and pedal dreams

Angola, a Portuguese-speaking country, is strongly influenced by the cultural output of Brazil, the world’s Lusophone powerhouse. Brazil is often represented as a land of hope in Angola. Angolans can’t get enough of its telenovelas, the intrigue-filled television dramas that...

May 23, 2022

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe: “Why now is the right time for the changes we need”

Features

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe: “Why now is the right time for the changes we need”

Ahead of the Forbes African Fashion International Fashion Experience in Botswana, Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe explains why now is the time for social inclusion* and sustainability, and why fashion can facilitate these. Sustainability and social inclusion must be priorities for all...

April 25, 2022

Why we should adopt a wellbeing wardrobe

Fashion

Why we should adopt a wellbeing wardrobe

If things don’t change fast, the global fashion industry could use a quarter of the world’s remaining global carbon budget to keep warming under 2℃ by 2050, and use 35% more land to produce fibres by 2030. While this seems incredible,...

April 20, 2022

#WhoMadeMyDress: Meet Patricia Jacobs head seamstress at Hannah Lavery

Fashion

#WhoMadeMyDress: Meet Patricia Jacobs head seamstress at Hannah Lavery

This the first in a five-part #WhoMadeMyClothes series that centres and celebrates the people who make our clothing for this year’s Fashion Revolution Week. From helping her grandmother sew, to becoming the head-seamstress at Hannah Lavery, Patricia Jacobs tells her...

April 18, 2022

How top architect Diébédo Francis Kéré reinvigorates indigenous knowledge

Spaces

How top architect Diébédo Francis Kéré reinvigorates indigenous knowledge

Burkina Faso’s Diébédo Francis Kéré has become the first African and the first Black person to win the Pritzker prize, architecture’s equivalent of the Nobel. Kéré’s work has consistently highlighted the role of design in creating what he calls “coherent and peaceful cities”. When Burkina...

March 28, 2022

Q&A: Vanhu Vamwe design duo practice humanity

Fashion

Q&A: Vanhu Vamwe design duo practice humanity

Vanhu Vamwe’s people first ethos echoes through all aspects of their thoughtful and care-filled design process They create sculptural, avant-garde accessories, working with artisans in Zimbabwe and Ecuador, with sustainability and ethics top of mind. Vanhu Vamwe, Shona for ‘One...

February 4, 2022

Fashion

Green Water, Blue Forest

The name of IAMISIGO’s SS22 collection is so simple that at a glance you might miss its super power: “Green Water, Blue Forest”. Water is generally blue, forests are green. By swapping these colours around, the brand startles us. It...

December 3, 2021

Why an ancient African plant captured Giorgio Armani’s attention

Beauty

Why an ancient African plant captured Giorgio Armani’s attention

Although it’s widely used in African traditional medicine, modern science is only beginning to appreciate the remarkable pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications of the plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia. This is why designer, Giorgio Armani, chose it as the main ingredient in his skincare...

September 15, 2021

20/20 VISION: Can fashion be faithful to sustainability?

Opinion

20/20 VISION: Can fashion be faithful to sustainability?

As a lover of words, meaty and meaningful, it pains me that so many “just-right” words have been overworked and overused to the point of becoming stale shadows of their former selves. There are countless examples of words being reduced...

March 23, 2021

Fashion

Long read: Why you should join the Fashion Revolution

The national co-ordinator of Fashion Revolution South Africa Cyril Naicker addressed a UN panel discussion on Sustainable Fashion for All: Examining the Industry through the Lens of Social Justice. Here is an edited transcript of his talk. Below the transcript...

March 4, 2021

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World Circular Economy Forum 2022 will focus on African innovation

How decolonised African fashion is inhabiting the V&A Museum

Q&A: NOKI connects upcycling with African storytelling

Why the V&A’s new Africa Fashion exhibition is important – and long overdue

The Herding Academy highlights the importance of herders in regenerative farming

Selling Brazilian fashion, the women of Angola’s ‘suitcase trade’ spot trends and pedal dreams

Dr Precious Moloi-Motsepe: “Why now is the right time for the changes we need”

Why we should adopt a wellbeing wardrobe

#WhoMadeMyDress: Meet Patricia Jacobs head seamstress at Hannah Lavery

How top architect Diébédo Francis Kéré reinvigorates indigenous knowledge

Q&A: Vanhu Vamwe design duo practice humanity

Green Water, Blue Forest

Why an ancient African plant captured Giorgio Armani’s attention

20/20 VISION: Can fashion be faithful to sustainability?

Long read: Why you should join the Fashion Revolution

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