Q&A: Dominique Lanz on creating art with textile waste in Ghana
Swiss artist Dominique Lanz spent three months at Kokrobitey Institute exploring natural dyeing and the realities of textile waste in Ghana
Tag: Textile Waste
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Joy of Africa
Over five years summer in Cape Town has become synonymous with the annual Joy from Africa to the World campaign at the V&A Waterfront. The beautiful series of installations indicate a shift away from traditional Christmas, and are like nothing...
Entrepreneur in Mauritius recycles textile waste to make bricks
As a child Mujahid Emambokus and his father tended to plants in the small backyard of his childhood home in Mauritius. The time spent in the family garden, instilled in him a respect for the environment. So as an adult,...
The Or Foundation shows us who carries the burden of fast fashion’s failings
Waste colonialism is wreaking havoc in Accra, Ghana. A fashion designer and activist working with The Or Foundation speaks about the crisis
Designer dresses up a jet plane in recycled G-Star RAW denim
One of the 21st century’s most important designers, Maarten Baas, has clad a private jet in recycled G-Star RAW jeans linking hyper-consumption with the super-wealthy. For the exhibition More or Less at Milan Design Week, the designer created an opportunity...
How a local Facebook group became a global network for clothing upcycling
Healing the fashion system, and our relationships with clothing, is often rooted in a strong sense of community. For many, Facebook groups are an accessible way to seek out like-minded slow living enthusiasts. The Up-Cycled Cloth Collective is a good...
5 Artists who work with waste exhibit at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2023
Living amid social and environmental catastrophes requires innovation and creativity to help find solutions, catalyse change, and comfort us in the face of adversity. We are seeing this in the artworld as more and more artists respond to the environmental...
New art installation focusses on circularity, the value of existing materials and slowing down
Globally 80 billion apparel items are manufactured each year. A rubbish truck full of clothes ends up in landfill every second. By 2030, we are expected to be discarding more than 134 million tonnes of textiles a year. In this...
Open Letter: Dear Fashion Industry, Let’s talk about waste.
In an open letter to the fashion industry, Liz Ricketts cofounder of OR Foundation insists there can be no sustainability revolution without justice throughout the global supply chain. She has has been working with secondhand clothing retailers and upcyclers in...
Designer tracks Europe’s throwaway clothing to Salaula market in Zambia
When Lotte de Haan first arrived in Zambia three years ago, she spotted someone wearing a soccer club T-shirt from the Dutch village where she grew up. “I was so surprised. It is a super-local soccer club.” At the time,...