To date Clothes to Good has recycled 580 tons of pre-loved clothes, empowered 108 micro-businesses and supported 100 early childhood centres. But this number increases rapidly as Twyg experienced at the social enterprise’s headquarters in Centurion, in Gauteng....
With an estimated 92 million tonnes of textiles being thrown away every year, the fashion industry urgently needs to transition to a more circular textile economy. In changing the way fashion is designed, produced, utilised, and what happens to it at the end of its...
Mending clothes goes a long way in increasing the longevity of our clothes. For centuries, tailors have been maintaining our clothing. To explore the role of tailors in our fashion ecosystems, I visited three tailors living in two different townships in Cape Town –...
By now, we should all know that we have much to learn from natural ecosystems when it comes to living in dynamic balance and harmony with the world around us. Drawing on this, in 2020, The Biomimicry Institute released a report titled, ‘Nature of Fashion: Moving...
Inscape’s focus on building a circular economy through design awarded them a place among the institutions recognised by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation for their role as an educator in the circularity and sustainability space. Since opening their first campus in...