African textile heritages hold clues to how we can change fashion and disrupt stereotypes. “African fashion is interwoven with values of ancient principles such as sustainability, respect, culture, and knowledge that couldn’t be more crucial in modern times,”...
In a world in which fashion usually skims the surface of issues, SELFI’s Spirit Body ’23 collection dives deeply into the human experience. Each piece is a tribute to indigenous cultures, an embrace of body diversity, and a reminder of the threads that...
Culture is not stagnant. It is dynamic, ever-evolving, and with deep roots. As culture evolves, mediums through which it is expressed and remembered evolve too. Fashion is one of these mediums. On 8 June 2023, local fashion designers, Thabo Makhetha, Celeste Arendse...
It’s no secret that the overproduction of fast fashion has created a global waste problem. Testament to this is West Africa’s largest informal secondhand clothing market, called Kantamanto, in Accra, Ghana. The market is not only a dumping site for the global...
Amidst our culture of consumerism and fast fashion, the legacy and understanding of how things are made have become obscured by complex, modern and globalised supply chains. This means that we tend not to care about our clothes as much as we would if were were more...
