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What to expect at Africa Textile Talks 2024

Africa Textile Talks 2024 is focussed on textile practices that inspire us to imagine and transition to a post-fossil fuel future. Our thoughtfully curated programme introduces attendees to makers and thinkers from South Africa and across the African continent who...

July 29, 2024

6 Social impact CMTs restitching fashion’s values

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6 Social impact CMTs restitching fashion’s values

In the heart of South Africa’s fashion landscape, a silent transformation is unfolding – one that intertwines heritage, innovation, and conscience. Cut, Make, Trim manufacturing businesses, often abbreviated as CMTs, are emerging as the unsung champions of a renaissance in...

September 19, 2023

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Remind me, what does slow fashion mean?

Slow fashion is not just about countering the speed of an inherently unsustainable fast fashion system. It is also an acknowledgement of the multiplicity of fashion ways needed to build a better fashion system. Slow fashion is a mindset. Kate...

September 15, 2023

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Kwetu Kwanza celebrates and educates fashion in Uganda

The annual Ugandan sustainable fashion event, Kwetu Kwanza, acts as a platform to motivate, educate, and empower designers to embrace sustainable fashion and offer the rest of us a glimpse into the fashion industry, both good and bad. This year,...

September 13, 2023

Transparency is the key to fashion system change – yet SA retailers fall behind

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Transparency is the key to fashion system change – yet SA retailers fall behind

How much do you know about where your clothes come from? The answer likely is “not much”. In July, Fashion Revolution released its eighth Transparency Index. The Index is an annual review of 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands...

September 5, 2023

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The Or Foundation shows us who carries the burden of fast fashion’s failings

There’s a denim jacket in Sammy Oteng’s wardrobe that he has a particular tender attachment to. It’s not that the jacket fits just right, or that it makes him feel a certain way when he wears it. It matters because...

August 14, 2023

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What is the local fashion industry doing about its overproduction?

Too much of anything is hardly ever a good thing and excess inventory, or so-called dead stock is no different. What to do with surplus garments, textiles, footwear or the stock that gets returned to retailers but can’t be resold...

August 7, 2023

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Khayelitsha Fashion Week 2023 celebrates the creative resilience of township designers

From Paris Fashion Week to the homegrown runways of South Africa Fashion Week and Cape Town Fashion Week, it’s been a busy year for the fashion world. For the Mother City there’s been an extra hurrah in the form of...

July 10, 2023

Designer dresses up a jet plane in recycled G-Star RAW denim

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Designer dresses up a jet plane in recycled G-Star RAW denim

One of the 21st century’s most important designers, Maarten Baas, has clad a private jet in recycled G-Star RAW jeans linking hyper-consumption with the super-wealthy. For the exhibition More or Less at Milan Design Week, the designer created an opportunity...

July 3, 2023

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7 Upcycling brands reimagining fashion waste in SA

At the heart of the circular fashion future lies the concept of upcycling. Upcycling, in practice, involves transforming discarded materials or products into new items of higher value or quality. It is a creative and innovative way to give new...

June 29, 2023

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Why the overconsumption of sustainable fashion won’t change the status quo

Something isn’t adding up: at the heart of the sustainability movement is the recognition that overconsumption – and the resulting waste – is bad news for the environment. But statistics show that we’re still buying more than ever. The rising...

June 6, 2023

3 Tips for upcycling from zero-waste designer LaaniRaani

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3 Tips for upcycling from zero-waste designer LaaniRaani

Upcycling is the practice of giving a garment that could go to waste a new lease on life. This could mean deconstructing it entirely and creating something new, or just adding a few embellishments here and there. It is a...

May 4, 2023

7 South Africans each write a love letter to clothing for #FashionRevolution

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7 South Africans each write a love letter to clothing for #FashionRevolution

An important part of slow fashion is cultivating deeper connections with our clothing. The fast fashion system has convinced us that fashion is purely transactional and clothing is inherently disposable. To heal this system, and create a fair fashion future,...

April 30, 2023

Fashion Guides

A beginners guide to mending resources

By mending and repairing your clothing, you are making sure that you can wear it for longer, which means you are slowing down how much you consume and making sure that less goes to waste. There are two common types...

April 28, 2023

What does fashion revolution mean for Africa?

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What does fashion revolution mean for Africa?

“It takes a revolution to make a solution”. This line from the 1974 hit, Revolution, by iconic reggae sensations, Bob Marley and the Wailers, was intended as a comment on political violence in the group’s homeland at the time. But,...

April 24, 2023

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What to expect at Africa Textile Talks 2024

6 Social impact CMTs restitching fashion’s values

Remind me, what does slow fashion mean?

Kwetu Kwanza celebrates and educates fashion in Uganda

Transparency is the key to fashion system change – yet SA retailers fall behind

The Or Foundation shows us who carries the burden of fast fashion’s failings

What is the local fashion industry doing about its overproduction?

Khayelitsha Fashion Week 2023 celebrates the creative resilience of township designers

Designer dresses up a jet plane in recycled G-Star RAW denim

7 Upcycling brands reimagining fashion waste in SA

Why the overconsumption of sustainable fashion won’t change the status quo

3 Tips for upcycling from zero-waste designer LaaniRaani

7 South Africans each write a love letter to clothing for #FashionRevolution

A beginners guide to mending resources

What does fashion revolution mean for Africa?

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