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...
For Fashion Revolution Week (18-24 April 2022), students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology paused their curriculum to create an upcycled fashion collection. They were grouped together in teams of 10 to 13 students and each team created two looks using...
Originally from Sebokeng zone 14 in Gauteng, 23-year-old Bhungane Mehlomakhulu is both a fashion designer and a professional ballet dancer – he dances by day and sews by night. “I’m like Hannah Montana,” says Bhungane. To find out more about the man and about...
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...
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...
