Q&A: Stephanie Brearley makes Freya Hats for all heads and seasons
Launched last year during the first lockdown to raise money for women and children in need, Freya Hats produces slow and transseasonal fashion. Its first hats were made from discarded fabric samples. Freya Hats is committed to sustainability, creating fashion garments...
Meet the designer who is creating a green fashion movement in Zambia
Softly spoken during most of our conversation, Betty Chilonde becomes animated when the topic turns to circularity and the potential of fashion in Zambia. Betty is not only a designer. She is also an educator, farmer and activist quietly shaping the future of design...
Zambian designer Betty Chilonde makes clothes in harmony with nature
For a fashion project that I did in collaboration with Zambian designer Betty Chilonde, she designed three looks that exhibit how she responds to her dream of living in harmony with nature and to critical questions. Why am I a designer? What am I contributing to the...
Fabric of change: Mozambican designer Wacy Zacarias fixes textiles with healing plants
When Mozambican designer Wacy Zacarias realised that most African textiles were not really African but imports from Holland and China, she shifted her focus from fashion design to reclaiming textiles for something more meaningful. “The tradition of African textiles,”...
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