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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...