When upcycled fashion meets the law
Upcycling is an important circular design solution for the fashion industry. But it's important to understand the potential legal implications of displaying trademarks in upcycled clothing
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Q&A: How Up-Fuse repurposes waste from Cairo’s Garbage City
Up-Fuse is a social enterprise founded in 2015 by Yara Yassin, Rania Rafie and Lama El Khawanky. The organisation operates from Cairo’s Garbage City, an informal settlement on the Egyptian capital’s outskirts, which has no effective official garbage system. The...
Nigerian designer Adejoke Lasisi is turning plastic water sachets into high fashion
At only nine years old, Adejoke Lasisi began learning to weave aso-oke under the watchful eyes of her mother. It would take her another 15 years to master this traditional handwoven fabric of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. But as...
Q&A with Jordan Mwaura from Kenya’s Urban Pitchaz fashion collective
Meet Urban Pitchaz, a collective of four contemporary artists based in Nairobi, Kenya. The artists are focussed on fashion photography and film, telling authentic and relatable African stories. The themes are reinvention and experimentation. The collective acts as a bridge...