by Reporter | Oct 7, 2020 | Opinion
Have you heard about the Australian company called Thankyou? Not yet? You will soon. This company has come up with an audacious business model to “flip consumerism and change the world.” When co-founder and managing director of Thankyou, Daniel Flynn finished school,...
by Modupe Oloruntoba | Jun 22, 2020 | Fashion
Fashion is heavily reliant on visual communication. In both editorial media and brand marketing, clothes need to be seen. Among all that has been paused or changed by the pandemic, Covid-19 has affected fashion image production too. While plenty had to be placed on...
by Holly Beaton | May 3, 2020 | Opinion
It’s not only clothing, but textiles too, that have supply chains and an ecological impact on the planet. For this reason, the platform for fabric innovation, The Sustainable Angle, has called for the “diversification of the fibre basket” and the need to move...
by Catherine Del Monte | Mar 13, 2020 | Fashion
Beauty is an idea, a feeling, an abstraction that means something different to everyone. It is the subject of an age-old debate. Two weeks ago, South Africa took the conversation into a very specific direction. The purpose of the Design Indaba’s Most Beautiful Object...
by Catherine Del Monte | Feb 17, 2020 | Fashion
When the South African Plastics Pact launched last month most of the buzz was about reducing, recycling and reusing plastic packaging. Conversation was thin regarding the synthetic fibre content of our clothes, the largest source of micro-plastics in the ocean. On...