In the News | 28 February 2023

A Nigerian streetwear brand competes for the next LVMH Prize, Sindiso Khumalo collaborates with & Other Stories, and Milan hosts the first Black Carpet Awards.

Faith Oluwajimi, Nigerian designer of streetwear brand Bloke, is a 2023 LVMH Prize finalist.

Africa

A Nigerian streetwear brand competes for the next LVMH Prize, Sindiso Khumalo collaborates with & Other Stories, TFG's Markhams collaborates with Imprint, Rich Mnisi joins the inaugural Smiley Future Positive Creators Fund cohort, Kenyan surface pattern design marketplace UndaMeta opens, Takealot launches SMME accelerator, H&M goes online at Superbalist, and Jumia limits losses with a 20% staff cut last quarter.

Bloke - LVMH PRIZE

A Nigerian streetwear brand competes for the next LVMH Prize

Future Positive Creators Fund

The Original Smiley Brand creates the world's best fashion, beauty and lifestyle products.

Sindiso Khumalo to Take Her Colourful, Playful Textiles, Designs to & Other Stories in April

Based in Cape Town, Khumalo is the latest designer to collaborate with & Other Stories, which belongs to H&M Group.

Making a mark

Get to know more about Mzukisi Mbane, designer and founder of local brand, Imprint, and peep a first look at our exciting new collaboration.

UndaMeta Limited

We are Afrika's first marketplace for Afrikan-inspired surface pattern design.

African Fashion International

Cape Town 2023 edition set to take over the CTICC.

Takealot launches accelerator programme for Black-owned SMME suppliers

The programme will give select SMMEs trading on the Takealot Marketplace access to invaluable business skills development, training, mentorship and potential grants or interest-free loan funding.

UEL Fashion Speaker Series: Africa's Evolving Fashion Landscape

What is shaping the conversation, the interest, and the western representation of fashion in Africa?

Foschini’s Bash wants to shake up online shopping in South Africa

The Foschini Group’s ecommerce platform, Bash, launched this week.

H&M partners with Superbalist, opens new CT store

Consumers will be able to shop for H&M clothing and homeware products on the Takealot-owned e-commerce platform from next week.

Jumia laid off 20% of staff in Q4 2022 amid work to reduce losses by half this year

Jumia, as part of streamlining efforts, undertook headcount reductions that resulted in more than 900 position terminations in Q4 2022.

Sustain

Key stories on global fashion's environmental impact from the last 2 weeks, including possible new futures for overproduction solutions, a documentary by fashion designer Amy Powney making waves at several film festivals, H&M's new recycling partner in Germany, a new report on the impact that waste clothing from the global north is having on Kenya, and the Design Futures Lab returns.

Fossil Fashion - Changing Markets

Revealing the hidden reliance of the fast fashion industry on fossil fuels for the production of clothing.

Messages for the world’s fashion capitals from the front lines of reuse | Financial Times

In Mexico, Ghana and the Philippines, circularity is inextricable from community wellbeing

Apply to be a part of the Design Futures Lab 2023 - twyg

Want to create an immersive digital experience about sustainable fashion and design? Applications are open for the Design Futures Lab 2023.

Why GANNI is brutally honest with its sustainability program

Danish fashion brand GANNI is taking the long and gruelling route to understanding its carbon and social footprint.

H&M and Remondis form textiles recycling venture

H&M said on Wednesday it had formed a joint venture with German recycling group Remondis to collect, sort and sell used and unwanted garments and textiles.

Fashion Reimagined

Trailblazing fashion designer Amy Powney is on a mission to create a sustainable collection from field to finished garment and transform the way we engage with fashion.

How Fashion Can Outgrow Overproduction

We report on the scale fashion’s overproduction problem, and propose an alternative path through flexible, turnkey digital printing, on-demand.

Why Fashion Needs Next-Generation Factories

Fashion's digital transformation hasn't reached sourcing and production, making a strong argument for new methods, materials, and factories.

Why Pangaia’s Recycled Denim Jacket Has ‘No Tradeoffs’

It’s the first denim product derived completely from NuCycl, which is “regenerated” from cotton waste.

Who decides what’s regenerative?

Why there can’t be a universal definition for regenerative—and why that’s a good thing.

Global

Elsewhere, Farfetch invites fashion tech applications for the second edition of the Dream Assembly Base Camp, H&M returns to designer collaborations with Mugler, Milan's fashion set host the inaugural Black Carpet Awards, global brands line up to participate in Metaverse Fashion Week at Decentraland and Skechers teams up with Diane Von Furstenberg.

dream assembly base camp

Applications for our Dream Assembly Base Camp are now open.

First Black Carpet Awards Get Emotional

Held during Milan Fashion Week and organised by the Afro Fashion Association, the event recognised 10 leaders of change.

H&M AND MUGLER WILL COLLABORATE ON A COLLECTION FOR SPRING 2023

Tradition and Innovation Collide: Decentraland Metaverse Fashion Week 2023

Together with Decentraland community designers, Dolce & Gabbana, Tommy Hilfiger, COACH, adidas, DKNY, Vogue Singapore, Monnier Paris, DUNDAS…

Skechers and Diane von Furstenberg join forces on an apparel and footwear collection - TheIndustry.fashion

US-based footwear label Sketchers is collaborating with luxury womenswear designer Diane von Furstenberg on its first-ever apparel...

Glamorously Chic 3D Printed Dior Concept Store in Dubai - 3DPrint.com | The Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing

One of the biggest innovators in Dubai’s 3D printing scene has recently been WASP (short for World’s Advanced Saving Project). The pioneering Italian 3D printer manufacturer specializing in sustainable additive...

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