Sexy Jocks bring circular design to your underwear drawer
If you’re looking to only wear sustainable clothes (including vintage, natural fibres, upcycled or recycled clothes), Dave Hutchison’s recent business venture might be the last piece of your eco-wardrobe puzzle. His new project is an upcycling one, turning material...
Thrifting: The future of fashion may be in your closet
Thrifting, secondhand, and resale are fashion buzzwords. In fact, statistics suggest secondhand could overtake fast fashion in the next ten years and unlock a sustainable fashion future. According to WWD, thrifting is now a $28 billion (over R407 billion) global...
Six Ways to Create a Wardrobe of Sustainable Fashion
If you love fashion, you’re in for a treat this month. We’re celebrating South African fashion at SA Fashion Week (3 – 6 April) in Johannesburg and next week at AFI Cape Town Fashion Week (11-13 April). We’ll be thinking a little more seriously about...
What’s the Stitch? How to put fashion waste to good use
At Greenpop’s Reforest Fest last year, the crew wore T-shirts made from recycled plastic bottles. You’re thinking “school design project”. Or, that it is a T-shirt made from clear plastic scales hot-glued together. Nope. These T-shirts look, feel and...Advertisement
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- What’s the Stitch? Why You Need to Learn How to Fix and Darn Clothes
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