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Simon and Mary turns cactus leather into smooth hats

Simon and Mary turns cactus leather into smooth hats

by Catherine Del Monte | Nov 2, 2020 | Fashion

In a bid to move away from producing environmentally unsustainable and unethical textiles, fabric innovation has taken a front seat in the fashion industry and entrepreneurs are looking in their fruit baskets and at their local flora and fauna for inspiration to...

Q&A: LUNAR designers say out of crisis comes much needed change

Q&A: LUNAR designers say out of crisis comes much needed change

by Catherine Del Monte | Oct 23, 2020 | Fashion

LUNAR is a South African eco-conscious fashion and lifestyle brand that was founded in the mid 1990s by Karen Ter Morshuizen and Dominique Gatland. Fast-forward to present-day and designers Nicola Luther and Sonja Stanislaus-Kaw Di-Aping have picked up the baton from...

How can we design wellbeing?

How can we design wellbeing?

by Fatima Cassim | Oct 23, 2020 | Opinion

In anticipation of the Open Design Afrika festival, director of design education Fatima Cassim has penned her thoughts on how to design to innovate, educate and build resilient communities. The Open Design Afrika festival enables design-enabled social change and...

Why urban food gardens and permaculture are more important now than ever before

Why urban food gardens and permaculture are more important now than ever before

by Catherine Del Monte | Oct 16, 2020 | Food

People are hungry. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that over 2 billion people across the globe do not have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. According to the organisation, in one year an additional 10...

10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes

10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes

by Janette Bennett | Oct 12, 2020 | Fashion

For an entire year, I have not bought new clothes, driven by evidence of the harm the fast fashion industry does to the environment and the people who work in it. This was a big deal for me: I’ve always loved clothes, browsing and inevitably buying them too. Well,...