13 South African sustainable swimwear brands
Your guide to swimwear made with care
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Explainer: The Met Gala debrief
This year’s Met Gala theme centred on Superfine: Tailoring Black Style − an exhibition exploring 300 years of Black dandyism, resistance, and identity through fashion. With a menswear-focused dress code and a powerful curatorial lens, it marked a historic first...
Thobeka Mbane drives inclusive fashion with purpose and power
As a culture strategist and stylist, it’s without a doubt that Thobeka Mbane is a tastemaker. For over a decade, she’s had a hand in engineering some of the most iconic images of glitterati such as Black Coffee, Elsa Majimbo,...
What’s the oldest item in your wardrobe? We asked 6 fashion enthusiasts
Our wardrobes are filled with memories and meaning. There are clothes that you bought with your first pay check, those that were handed down from family or the ones that you bought on a special trip. We asked six people...
The Stylist’s Role in Sustainability
While designers and a handful of executives are applauded and scrutinised about sustainability, fashion is a team sport. Stylists, who are key to this team, are in a powerful position to create desirable imagery of sustainability that can influence consumer...
Q&A Nombuso Khanyile treads lightly with Afrikan Passion Designs
Nombuso Khanyile, a Durban-based designer and BSC Biochemistry and Microbiology graduate, stitches her heart and soul into handmade leather products which are upcycled from tyre and plastic material. Afrikan Passion Designs was realised in 2015 by Nombuso’s now partner, Nisbert...
Q&A: St Reign’s founder Samkelisiwe Mhlongo explains vegtan leather
St Reign is a minimalist leather lifestyle brand inspired by slick, simple, clean lines that make for timeless statement pieces. Founder Samkelisiwe Mhlongo uses vegtan leather pieces. Vegtan is leather that is tanned using plant-based dyes, rather than the harmful chemicals used in conventional...
Q&A with designer Siphelele Ntombela about his African Renaissance Designs
African Renaissance Designs celebrates the aesthetic traditions of the Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swati tribes. Head designer of the brand and Design Indaba 2020 emerging creative Siphelele Ntombela studied textile design at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth where...
Kafui Awoonor: 3 Tips for staying sane and serene during lockdown
Growing up, the Ghanain-born yoga instructor, and natural beauty and wellness expert Kafui Awoonor watched her grandmother mix shea butters and concoct natural oils to keep the family’s skin healthy and happy the natural way. Fast-forward and Kafui, raised in...
Vogue Italia’s blank cover suggests an infinite sadness and the beginning of a new story
The cover of Vogue Italia’s April 2020 edition is blank. Gone is the original cover photograph, which showed a model wearing a blue-checked Louis Vuitton twin suit against a blue backdrop, her gaze earnest, with a hint of defiance. Gone...
Pending: Khayelitsha Fashion Week celebrates African fashion heritage
Zola Booi, fashion designer, founder of the Fashion Entrepreneur Training Programme and an ambassador of National Youth Development Agency writes about plans for Khayelitsha Fashion Week during the year of Covid-19. Although Khayelitsha Fashion Week has been postponed, Covid-19 has...
Ashley Heather turns e-waste into jewellery you’ll want to keep forever
Ashley Heather fell into jewellery making by accident. But since she first spotted a crucible of molten silver she has married her commitment to slow fashion and mindful consumption with her technical metalworking skills and a background in fine art....
3 Easy steps to revamping your wardrobe during lockdown
Did you know that the most sustainable clothes are the ones you already own? So use lockdown to get to know what is in your wardrobe – one of the most vital steps to becoming a sustainable fashionista. Fashion Revolution...
Why sustainability departments are old-fashioned
Instead of applying sustainability practices across its entire business, the fashion industry has introduced them in a piecemeal fashion. Now, as we peer over a precipice of radical and unplanned change, it’s worth taking a closer look at this old-fashioned...
A new wave of fashion washes up onto our shores
Don’t be deceived. What looks like a pearl, is not a pearl. A creative team working with photographer Thirza Schaap has turned ocean plastic pollution into art – including a plastic deodorant roller ball. In a new thought-provoking photographic series...