Essential Elegance
Trends may come and go, but elegance will always remain in style. These pandemic years have allowed us to pause, reflect, and examine what is truly essential in our lives. For many, this lens has extended to our clothing and...
Tag: Slow Fashion
Q&A: Lucie Panis-Jones reminds us of the hands behind our textiles
Lucie Panis-Jones is a multifaceted textile designer, based in Cape Town, whose work includes artful mending and textured weaving. Growing up in many countries across the world – including Zimbabwe, the United States, France, Spain, and Belgium – gave Lucie...
Slow fashion: saving the planet with style
Each time you drag a new item of clothing into a virtual shopping basket, you may be supporting an industry responsible for 10% of global CO₂ emissions – not to mention widespread social harm. Fast fashion, the industry trend which...
Students showcase a week-long upcycling fashion project
For Fashion Revolution Week (18-24 April 2022), students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology paused their curriculum to create an upcycled fashion collection. They were grouped together in teams of 10 to 13 students and each team created two...
A Time For New Dreams
In the lush Newlands Forest where dappled light leaves a dreamscape, we create versions of self and become all we wish to be through the transformative power of fashion. Soulful and transcendent, A Time For New Dreams reconnect us with...
Get Hooked
Bev Nates has created a magical fashion editorial that is a tribute to her Russian grandmother, Lilly Levin, whom she adored. Bev remembers her granny sitting alongside a Russian teapot with countless clashing and brightly coloured yarns and a crochet...
3 South African Shoe Brands Making Slow Fashion Strides
We love local! And, we especially love local brands who are combining style and slow fashion to bring us garments and footwear that allow us to express ourselves without causing harm to the planet nor people. One part of slow...
6 Bag brands creating quality items that last
For this selection of bags, we highlight six local brands producing quality, trans-seasonal leather handbags. According to each brand, the leather* is locally and ethically sourced. PROJECT DYAD Cape Town-based Project Dyad was founded in 2016 by Vincent Urbain and...
Call for Nominations: Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2021
Designers are problem solvers, and right now, we urgently need problems solved. There has been a noticeable shift in how fashion thinks of itself with a realisation that its responsibility is far wider than making clothes. For this reason, we’re...
Q&A: Why slow fashion enthusiast Stella Hertantyo loves clothes swaps
Ahead of our monthly swap shop we reached out to one of our favourite South African slow fashion enthusiasts, Stella Hertantyo to give us a low down on why she loves swapping clothes. When did you attend your first swapping...
Q&A: Asha : Eleven does good, inspiring stuff to inspire others to do the same
Olivia Kennaway founded Asha : Eleven in 2018. Ethics and sustainability are the driving force behind her Cape Town-based brand. Olivia, a mother of two, is on the Fashion Revolution South Africa team and works to reduce fashion’s negative impact...
“The Coutts Collection is a great honour to our family”
Nicholas Coutts and LVMH Prize 2021 finalist Lukhanyo Mdingi first met when they were fashion students at Cape Peninsula University of Technology and Design Academy of Fashion, respectively, and later they were not only friends but professional peers too. They...
Q&A: Shamyra Moodley sees the future of sustainable fashion as DIY-fashion-meets-art
Former accountant turned designer Shamyra Moodley recently participated in her first fashion show. Selected as one of the six designers to join African Fashion International’s 2020 year-long Fastrack programme, Shamyra was tasked to create three new looks in three weeks...
10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes
For an entire year, I have not bought new clothes, driven by evidence of the harm the fast fashion industry does to the environment and the people who work in it. This was a big deal for me: I’ve always...
Model activist Liyanna B talks sustainability and influencer culture in 2020
Black and Brown folks have always been sustainable, it’s not a foreign concept, if anything it’s been a way of life from the beginning of time for many of us. This is what South African model and activist Nomfundo Liyanna...