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Is it possible for fast fashion company H&M to become sustainable fast enough?

Two things are clear. The fast fashion company H&M has made a commitment to “leading the change towards a circular and renewable fashion industry, while being a fair and equal company”. The multinational has also committed to offering fashion cheaply...

April 8, 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’s the Stitch? How to put fashion waste to good use

At Greenpop’s Reforest Fest last year, the crew wore T-shirts made from recycled plastic bottles. You’re thinking “school design project”. Or, that it is a T-shirt made from clear plastic scales hot-glued together. Nope. These T-shirts look, feel and behave like...

February 10, 2019

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

Features

RiverBlue Review: “The question remains whether big retailers will make the right decisions”

After watching the River Blue my attitude to water, and to my wardrobe has changed. Yours will too. The Vancouver-produced documentary is a sobering look at the fashion industry and how it has prioritised profit over planet. The film, released...

May 17, 2018

Features

Bolt Threads makes a new “leather” from mushroom roots

You’ll remember Bolt Threads from a striking yellow dress designed by Stella McCartney last year. She used a spider silk grown in Bolt Threads’ laboratory. The fabric innovators this week introduced the world to its second new-generation material. Called Mylo,...

April 19, 2018

Fashion

Why it’s worth going to H&M for the Conscious Exclusive 2018 collection

Take a look at this collection. You don't often get an opportunity to feel and see the new generation of sustainable fabrics in the form of beautiful red carpet looks

April 19, 2018

Opinion

View from inside: Why made-in-South Africa is the better option for local retailers

An industry expert explains what the true cost is of the retailers “search, buy, search again” cycle and why it is seldom taken into consideration.

March 23, 2018

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Tag: fast fashion

Is it possible for fast fashion company H&M to become sustainable fast enough?

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

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

What’s the Stitch? How to put fashion waste to good use

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

RiverBlue Review: “The question remains whether big retailers will make the right decisions”

Bolt Threads makes a new “leather” from mushroom roots

Why it’s worth going to H&M for the Conscious Exclusive 2018 collection

View from inside: Why made-in-South Africa is the better option for local retailers

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