5 Textiles You Could Wear Soon
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...
The beauty of doing good
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...
What does the SA Plastics Pact mean for fashion retail?
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...
Meet the storytellers exploring the future of circular design in Africa
We’ve gathered six southern-African storytellers in Cape Town for the first stage of their Design Futures storytelling project. In December we put out a call for entries and a few weeks later we undertook an intensive screening process of over 170 portfolios...Advertisement
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