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Six Ways to Create a Wardrobe of Sustainable Fashion

If you love fashion, you’re in for a treat this month. We’re celebrating South African fashion at SA Fashion Week (3 – 6 April) in Johannesburg and next week at AFI Cape Town Fashion Week (11-13 April). We’ll be thinking a little...

March 31, 2019

Fashion

LUNAR shines a bright light on South African sustainable fashion

Today’s world of fashion gives ‘Zero Fs’ to the planet. The industry is mostly concerned with creating ever-changing trends and making dirt-cheap virgin clothing which is sold fast and cheaply via sales, bargains and two-for-one deals. All done without considering...

March 22, 2019

Fashion

Using high-tech design Kye Shimizu wants to change fashion for good

Kye Shimizu is not a fashion designer, but his Algorithmic Couture project has created a new convention for fashion. “I have used code to eliminate waste and make fashion sustainable,” he says. Kye is the co-founder of Tokyo-based research collective, Synflux,...

March 15, 2019

NOT JUST A PUMA is about art, social impact and… shoes

Fashion

NOT JUST A PUMA is about art, social impact and… shoes

Why would PUMA, one of the world’s leading sports brands, collaborate with an 18-month-old South African design brand, which has in turn collaborated with an NPO? Not Just A Comb recently launched a collection of trainers with embellishments designed by...

February 24, 2019

Fashion

What will it take to fix our throwaway fashion habit?

Clothing in Britain is increasingly characterised by a high volume/low value approach to business. Judging by past precedent, consumers will discard some 680m items of clothing when they spring clean their wardrobes this year. Replacements are cheap: dresses can be bought for as...

February 22, 2019

Talking Rubbish: How to celebrate Valentine’s Day without trash

Opinion

Talking Rubbish: How to celebrate Valentine’s Day without trash

I am not a fan of Valentine’s Day. I am all for celebrating love, sure, but I prefer to do that without mindless consumerism and unnecessary waste. I’ll give cheesy store-bought Valentine’s goodies a miss: they usually end up in the...

February 12, 2019

Fashion

Lesley Whitter of Convoy and Heart & Heritage talks business of fashion

Lesley Whitter, founder of Heart & Heritage label and of Convoy, has opened a new shop and studio space in Johannesburg. Ever since she launched Heart & Heritage in 2013, she’s been working from her mother’s basement. “The time has come for...

January 30, 2019

Fashion

How rental services make fashion more sustainable

Imagine. At the beginning of a new month, 30 or 31 outfits are delivered to your door by a rental service. Clothes and accessories are clean, the right fit for your body shape and styled to suit your lifestyle, including...

January 21, 2019

What’s The Stitch? About A Secondhand Revolution

Fashion

What’s The Stitch? About A Secondhand Revolution

It’s a new year and time for a ‘new you’, right? Maybe you’re starting a new job (I am!). Or lost your suitcase. Gained (maybe lost) some weight. Or just want a new look. You may need a few new...

January 3, 2019

Fashion

Fashion Revolutionary is one of GQs 50 best-dressed men in South Africa

A Fashion Revolution activist is one of the top 50 best-dressed men in South Africa. GQ magazine recognized Cyril Naicker for his sharp local and sustainable style. We asked Cyril how he keeps up with fashion while being conscious of...

December 13, 2018

Opinion

Talking Rubbish: “Instead of supporting Black Friday, I support Buy Nothing Day”

It’s that time of year when the Black Friday specials start trending online, littering our email inboxes and polluting our social media feeds. Black Friday, on 23 November, originally an American tradition, is the biggest US shopping day of the...

November 7, 2018

Fashion

SA Fashion Week: Lucilla Booyzen’s labour of love comes of age

Everyone in the SA Fashion Week office in Rosebank is wearing black. Founder and director Lucilla Booyzen is trim, her neatly cut red hair lightly touches her shoulders. She wears a cardigan, black of course, which, she says, has been...

October 26, 2018

Fashion

What’s the Stitch: Ready to take the vegan challenge to your wardrobe?

‘What’s the Stitch?’ is a new monthly column by Emma Jones-Phillipson about dressing sustainably in our modern age. She’ll pair critical insights into the environmental and social impacts of the fashion industry with useful guides to conscious buying, wearing, and...

October 5, 2018

Fashion

Part 2: Extract from Dirty Fashion report: why viscose production needs to transform

When Dirty Fashion was released in June last year, most of us woke up to the horrific production processes of viscose. The Changing Markets Foundation which researched and compiled the report has since established a roadmap to better production processes...

August 28, 2018

Fashion

Part 1: Find out what is being done about viscose’s dangerous chemical pollution

We all love the feel of viscose. It’s soft and luxurious to the touch. So, it shouldn’t surprise you much that after it was first commercially produced in 1905 it was often called “artificial silk”. The silkiness is obvious. But...

August 28, 2018

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Six Ways to Create a Wardrobe of Sustainable Fashion

LUNAR shines a bright light on South African sustainable fashion

Using high-tech design Kye Shimizu wants to change fashion for good

NOT JUST A PUMA is about art, social impact and… shoes

What will it take to fix our throwaway fashion habit?

Talking Rubbish: How to celebrate Valentine’s Day without trash

Lesley Whitter of Convoy and Heart & Heritage talks business of fashion

How rental services make fashion more sustainable

What’s The Stitch? About A Secondhand Revolution

Fashion Revolutionary is one of GQs 50 best-dressed men in South Africa

Talking Rubbish: “Instead of supporting Black Friday, I support Buy Nothing Day”

SA Fashion Week: Lucilla Booyzen’s labour of love comes of age

What’s the Stitch: Ready to take the vegan challenge to your wardrobe?

Part 2: Extract from Dirty Fashion report: why viscose production needs to transform

Part 1: Find out what is being done about viscose’s dangerous chemical pollution

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