Fashion students are the next generation of fashion designers. So, the students who prioritise sustainability and ethics in their design thinking and garment making offer a sneak peek into a better fashion future. For example, Cape Town-based fashion graduate...
We all know fashion’s waste problem which is creating environmental problems. Now working towards a better future, Ackermans has launched an innovative solution to its fashion textile waste. Along with Wastecrete, the popular South African clothing brand has produced...
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 exposure...
South African youth have a long history of challenging the status quo. On 16 June 1976 – the date we now know as Youth Day – when the Apartheid government changed the primary medium of instruction in schools to Afrikaans, young people protested the decades-long...
The circular fashion movement is a response to environmental, social and economic impacts of the fashion industry’s waste crisis. We now know that hundreds of thousands of tonnes of clothing end up in landfill, are burnt or are jettisoned by bale loads from the Global...
