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Social impact CMT Tweak Fashion uses textile waste to create sustainable livelihoods

Struck by the heaps of textile waste produced by our fashion industry and the social injustice that leaves many women unemployed Justine Engelbrecht, found a solution by combining fashion with social impact. Situated in East Rand, Johannesburg, Tweak Fashion is...

April 12, 2023

Fashion

Fashion is political

What does politics have to do with fashion? The answer is everything. Fashion conjures society’s dreams, challenges its norms, and reflects what it believes about itself. As Dr. Rosie Findlay, course leader in fashion cultures at London College of Fashion told...

August 10, 2022

Fashion Opinion

An Open Letter on Textile Fibre Indexes

At the crux of the ecological and social crises are many conflicting ideas about how to address challenges in order to affect change. As the fashion and textile sector as a whole seeks to navigate this perplexing terrain, strategies and...

July 25, 2022

Q&A: Sabine Matsheka says the natural elements are the soul of MARU

Fashion

Q&A: Sabine Matsheka says the natural elements are the soul of MARU

Sabine Matsheka makes clothes that make sense for a desert climate. She writes on her website that MARU is “inspired by life beneath the clouds, in the sun-baked Kalahari Desert, quenched by the wealth of the Okavango Delta. Elements of...

February 26, 2021

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Social impact CMT Tweak Fashion uses textile waste to create sustainable livelihoods

Fashion is political

An Open Letter on Textile Fibre Indexes

Q&A: Sabine Matsheka says the natural elements are the soul of MARU

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