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Looking for local, sustainable brands? Find them at The Ethical Market in Joburg

After two successful Cape Town-based pop ups (and many requests for a Johannesburg-based one), THEM or The Ethical Market will open on Thursday evening at the Bamboo centre in Johannesburg. This pop up shop focusses on local and ethical fashion,...

October 23, 2018

Beauty

Beauty Spot: Why and how we should come clean

Is your beauty shelf heaving with products, some unopened, others opened, not empty but unused? Are you a victim of the promise of eternal youth and flawless skin that comes in expensively packaged pots and jars? Yip, well most of...

October 17, 2018

Features

Erin Hooper has woven a narrative about textile workers

As the academic year draws to a close, fashion design students have been busy finalising their end-of-year collections. For her fourth-year project, Erin Hooper not only considered the environment but also the collapse of the Cape Town clothing and textile...

October 14, 2018

Fashion

What’s the Stitch: Ready to take the vegan challenge to your wardrobe?

‘What’s the Stitch?’ is a new monthly column by Emma Jones-Phillipson about dressing sustainably in our modern age. She’ll pair critical insights into the environmental and social impacts of the fashion industry with useful guides to conscious buying, wearing, and...

October 5, 2018

Fashion

Floating into Summer in Sitting Pretty

You know how the promise of summer feels: days are a little longer, the temperature slowly gets warmer, once every few days we have a teasingly perfect day followed by a colder one…It’s not long now before we can spend...

October 1, 2018

Features

Our favourite looks from the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in Milan

At a star-studded fashion event in Milan on Sunday night, the latest sustainable trends and innovation in fashion were on show at their luxurious best. Gowns, dresses and suits made from handwoven palm straw, recycled polyester, organic silk, upcycled...

September 25, 2018

Features

A film celebrating secondhand clothes wins first prize at Bokeh Film Festival

The 2018 winner of the best film in the fashion category of Bokeh Fashion Film Awards is Picha Marangi. This two-minute long film starts with seconds of smoky, depressing landfill imagery, but quickly segues into a film that leaves you...

September 24, 2018

Features

Q+A: Hanri Taljaard on the slow clothing consumption habits of South African women

With a passion for the natural environment and a fascination with the secret language we all speak through our clothes, Hanri Taljaard is currently knee-deep in a PhD study, focusing on “voluntary simplistic” clothing consumption practices in South Africa. Nadia...

September 20, 2018

Features

Redress Design Awards finalists turn waste into want

On the first day of New York Fashion Week, slow fashion had its moment in Hong Kong. Last Thursday 11 emerging sustainable designers from around the world showed their collections at the Grand Final of the Redress Design Award 2018,...

September 11, 2018

Fashion

How a love for knitting led to the launch of new knitwear label Wrapt

On the small mezzanine level of a house in Johannesburg, the Wrapt team is busily working at knitting machines. It’s been a few months since they joined Hannelie Bekker’s new knitwear label but already Oupa Nhovela, Anna Setloboko and Felicity...

September 7, 2018

Beauty

If you love Lush, you’ll love its co-founder Rowena Bird

Rowena Bird is picking up trash when we meet. Her hair is soft pink, her lips painted a brighter pink and she’s wearing Parly Adidas sneakers made from recycled ocean plastic. On her recent visit to South Africa, she’s cleaning...

September 3, 2018

Fashion

Part 2: Extract from Dirty Fashion report: why viscose production needs to transform

When Dirty Fashion was released in June last year, most of us woke up to the horrific production processes of viscose. The Changing Markets Foundation which researched and compiled the report has since established a roadmap to better production processes...

August 28, 2018

Fashion

Part 1: Find out what is being done about viscose’s dangerous chemical pollution

We all love the feel of viscose. It’s soft and luxurious to the touch. So, it shouldn’t surprise you much that after it was first commercially produced in 1905 it was often called “artificial silk”. The silkiness is obvious. But...

August 28, 2018

Features

This kickass Slovakian sneaker brand pulls at our heartstrings

Shoes aren’t an easy product to make sustainably. Most mainstream mass shoe manufacturing involves toxic glues and plastics and unsustainably-sourced rubber and leather. A few companies have succeeded in making a shoe that is credibly sustainable and looks cool too....

August 17, 2018

Fashion

Ben Nivison’s new textiles are woven yarns of two cultures

In the Kullu Manali Valley valley lies Bhutti, a small hard-to-access village on the foothills of the Himalayas in Northern India. It’s here you’ll find one of the world’s last hand-weaving societies in the world. And it is here that...

July 19, 2018

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Looking for local, sustainable brands? Find them at The Ethical Market in Joburg

Beauty Spot: Why and how we should come clean

Erin Hooper has woven a narrative about textile workers

What’s the Stitch: Ready to take the vegan challenge to your wardrobe?

Floating into Summer in Sitting Pretty

Our favourite looks from the Green Carpet Fashion Awards in Milan

A film celebrating secondhand clothes wins first prize at Bokeh Film Festival

Q+A: Hanri Taljaard on the slow clothing consumption habits of South African women

Redress Design Awards finalists turn waste into want

How a love for knitting led to the launch of new knitwear label Wrapt

If you love Lush, you’ll love its co-founder Rowena Bird

Part 2: Extract from Dirty Fashion report: why viscose production needs to transform

Part 1: Find out what is being done about viscose’s dangerous chemical pollution

This kickass Slovakian sneaker brand pulls at our heartstrings

Ben Nivison’s new textiles are woven yarns of two cultures

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