Vanessa Nsona is designing a circular future for Malawi
Vanessa Nsona collects waste, tinkers and toys, prototypes and makes new products. Circular thinking is central to her work in Malawi. “I have always thought of waste as treasure,” she says. I spent a day with Vanessa, visiting her workshop, sourcing materials in the...
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Xavier Sadan crept into our world when we noticed it after it was shortlisted for the SAFW Scouting Menswear Competition 2020. We weren’t the only ones to notice the work of designer Michael Reid. The collection The Circle of Life, an artisanal collection, which...
Q&A: At Mors Design old tyre tubes are turned into bags
In 2015, Cape Town-based Raihana Govender co-founded Mors Design, an up-cycle initiative specialising in manufacturing bags made from recycled tyre tubes. When she met a designer who had made a bag out of old tyre tubing, she says, “I was so amazed by the beauty and...
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Former accountant turned designer Shamyra Moodley recently participated in her first fashion show. Selected as one of the six designers to join African Fashion International’s 2020 year-long Fastrack programme, Shamyra was tasked to create three new looks in...
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