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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...

May 14, 2021

Q&A: Sipho Mbuto says a beautiful garment should not destroy our planet

Fashion

Q&A: Sipho Mbuto says a beautiful garment should not destroy our planet

Sipho Mbuto showed his upcycled Dlala SS21 collection at SA Fashion Week on Thursday evening. Inspired by the tenacity of children who create toys with found objects, he has refashioned secondhand denim jeans. The can’t-miss labels offer the background to...

April 30, 2021

6 Freedom Day Tips: What you can do for environmental justice

Features

6 Freedom Day Tips: What you can do for environmental justice

To mark Freedom Day in South Africa we have compiled this list of actions you can take to help all people have an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being. Why? So that all people can...

April 27, 2021

Sustainability Case Study: How SA’s biggest belt factory transformed its operations

Features

Sustainability Case Study: How SA’s biggest belt factory transformed its operations

Leon Buhr had been running Equator – the Belt Factory, South Africa’s biggest belt manufacturer, for 20 years when his young children questioned the environmental impact of his work. “They asked if Equator was sustainable, and what we were doing...

April 27, 2021

Sony World Photography Award 2021 Student Finalist features Lara Klawikowski

Fashion

Sony World Photography Award 2021 Student Finalist features Lara Klawikowski

In her work photographer, Claudia Mauderer recognises that plastic waste material threatens nature. The young photographer and recent graduate of the Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography was shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Award 2021 Student competition, with her...

April 21, 2021

Fashion

Q&A: Mikael Hanan on building his luxury sustainable fashion brand FIELDS

You’ll find a store at Cape Town’s The Old Biscuit Mill which is as comfortable here as it would be in Paris’ Le Marais district. This is a brand of understated luxury with a focus on being sustainable. After years...

April 16, 2021

Q&A: How a book persuaded designer Ulfah Davids to launch U.Be.You

Fashion

Q&A: How a book persuaded designer Ulfah Davids to launch U.Be.You

After graduating from Cape Peninsula University of Technology in 2015, U.Be.You founder and designer Ulfah Davids worked for a local streetwear brand. Known as the first lady of TWOBOP, she became the creative director of the brand after just three...

April 10, 2021

Book extract: Why the act of caring for our clothes extends to the act of caring for our environment

Fashion

Book extract: Why the act of caring for our clothes extends to the act of caring for our environment

Ahead of Fashion Revolution Week 2021 we are publishing an extract from Orsola de Castro’s book Loved Clothes Last. Orsola, who together with Carry Somers, launched Fashion Revolution in 2013, a global movement calling for change in the fashion industry....

March 29, 2021

Q&A: BOYDE’s creative director gives us the lowdown on his award-winning work

Fashion

Q&A: BOYDE’s creative director gives us the lowdown on his award-winning work

Three years after he launched his menswear brand, Joburg-based designer Samkelo “Boyde” Xaba won South African Fashion Week’s Scouting Menswear Competition. His 2020 winning collection, in accordance with the judging criteria, illustrates that the designer reduces waste, uses low impact...

March 26, 2021

Fashion

Freshly Cut

In this shoot, we celebrate a few South African brands that are engaging with sustainability as a design ethos and as a business model, shooting some of our favourite looks on a small-scale farm just outside of the city. Many...

March 23, 2021

20/20 VISION: Can fashion be faithful to sustainability?

Opinion

20/20 VISION: Can fashion be faithful to sustainability?

As a lover of words, meaty and meaningful, it pains me that so many “just-right” words have been overworked and overused to the point of becoming stale shadows of their former selves. There are countless examples of words being reduced...

March 23, 2021

Q&A: Luke Radloff of UNI FORM considers the future in his design decisions

Fashion

Q&A: Luke Radloff of UNI FORM considers the future in his design decisions

Creative director Luke Radloff had been honing his skills for several years before founding the South African fashion label UNÍ FORM two years ago. As creative director of his brand, he combines the contemporary with the familiar, drawing references from...

March 19, 2021

Guided by skilled cobblers Matsidiso ethically crafts modern accessories

2020 Awards Fashion

Guided by skilled cobblers Matsidiso ethically crafts modern accessories

It’s often said that you cannot teach an old dog new tricks, but accessory brand Matsidiso was born from breaking this rule. Co-founder Jinae Heyns knew that her mother-in-law’s shoe factory had potential for a new life, after operating for...

March 15, 2021

The ancestral is modern in Thebe Magugu’s Banyoloyi A Bosigo

Fashion

The ancestral is modern in Thebe Magugu’s Banyoloyi A Bosigo

A tale about a transcendental, all-female realm populated by complex heroines, the fashion film Banyoloyi a Bosigo follows the clash of female gangs in a sun-scorched landscape and the violent consequences of the forbidden love between two rivals. The film,...

March 13, 2021

Q&A: Daniel Sher presents the new Good Good Good Collection

Fashion

Q&A: Daniel Sher presents the new Good Good Good Collection

Cape Town fashion brand Good Good Good launched its SS21 collection with the film An Orchestra in an Open Field directed by Jarred Figgins. Through its partnership with the Cape Town Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, Good Good Good is offering its...

March 12, 2021

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Q&A: Asha : Eleven does good, inspiring stuff to inspire others to do the same

Q&A: Sipho Mbuto says a beautiful garment should not destroy our planet

6 Freedom Day Tips: What you can do for environmental justice

Sustainability Case Study: How SA’s biggest belt factory transformed its operations

Sony World Photography Award 2021 Student Finalist features Lara Klawikowski

Q&A: Mikael Hanan on building his luxury sustainable fashion brand FIELDS

Q&A: How a book persuaded designer Ulfah Davids to launch U.Be.You

Book extract: Why the act of caring for our clothes extends to the act of caring for our environment

Q&A: BOYDE’s creative director gives us the lowdown on his award-winning work

Freshly Cut

20/20 VISION: Can fashion be faithful to sustainability?

Q&A: Luke Radloff of UNI FORM considers the future in his design decisions

Guided by skilled cobblers Matsidiso ethically crafts modern accessories

The ancestral is modern in Thebe Magugu’s Banyoloyi A Bosigo

Q&A: Daniel Sher presents the new Good Good Good Collection

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