Fashion & Jewellery Design | Design Indaba

Ebb: Changing the colour of your clothes using electricity

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design

Researchers have created textiles that are able to slowly change colour, revealing a path to interactive garments. >

10 May 16
Conceptual fashion by Bokang Lehabe

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Bokang Lehabe, one of Design Indaba Emerging Creative 2016, creates award winning, conceptual fashion. >

2 May 16
Anna Raimondo’s latest collection – NOIR

Product Spotlight > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Cape Town’s Anna Raimondo releases her latest range, NOIR, for her jewellery design company, Smith. >

27 Apr 16
Geometric jewellery from Philisa Zibi

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Design Indaba 2016 Emerging Creative Philisa Zibi creates geometric jewellery for women in a variety of mediums. >

25 Apr 16
South Africa joins the Fashion Revolution

Design News > Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Sunday 24 April 2016 is Fashion Revolution Day. South African designers join the movement to spread the word on the dangerous implications of fast fashion. >

22 Apr 16
Material girls: We look at two local textile designers

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Megan Smith and Luhandra Vorstman live on opposite sides of South Africa but share a similar approach to textile design and production. >

19 Apr 16
Sleepwear doesn't have to look like something you'd only wear to bed

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Alexia Hechter, one of our Design Indaba 2016 Emerging Creatives, creates high-end sleepwear out of wool. >

18 Apr 16
Eva Mynsberghe: Making products that tell stories

Video Interviews > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Jewellery and interiors designer Eva Mynsberghe emphasises the importance of telling stories with design. >

8 Apr 16
Backpacks made from traditional Sotho blankets

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Sibusiso Mokhachane makes backpacks from blankets to celebrate his heritage and help the world unlearn African stereotypes. >

6 Apr 16
A 100 per cent biodegradable fungi dress

Design News > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Neffa’s latest creation, MycoTEX explores the future of fashion with living materials. >

5 Apr 16
Mahlet Afework: Contemporary fashion inspired by traditional Ethiopia

Video Interviews > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Mafi clothing line embraces modern approaches to fashion design while incorporating traditional patterns. >

1 Apr 16
Bangladesh-based start-up boasts zero-waste fashion

Design News > Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Upcycling, recycling and reinvestment are the principles of this eco-friendly fashion brand. >

23 Mar 16
Teta Isibo: Rwandan-made products that mix modernity and tradition

Video Interviews > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

With her brand Inzuki Designs, Teta Isibo is a Rwandan entrepreneur helping to take artisanal Rwanda-made products to the modern market. >

16 Mar 16 / Brand Collaboration
Fashion house Mille Collines celebrates all things Africa

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

The recent Mille Collines show at AFI MBFW Joburg takes an elegant and contemporary look at ubiquitous African curios. >

15 Mar 16
31 Bits’ holistic business model empowers Ugandan women

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Jewellery brand creates a sustainable income for Ugandan artisans while teaching them skills to become self-reliant. >

11 Mar 16
Accra-based Swedish fashion brand creates street couture in collaboration with Ghanaian tailors

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

HI ON LIFE is a fashion brand driven by sustainable design, Ghanaian culture and a Scandinavian appreciation of form. >

8 Mar 16
Leaving design up to chance

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Origami-inspired game randomises the textile design process, encouraging the creation of new knowledge. >

8 Mar 16
MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design

The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology. >

4 Mar 16
Carte-blanche

Carte-blanche is a range of sustainably made products ideal for gifts. >

29 Feb 16
One week left to enter the A’ Design Awards

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

Entries for all categories of the prestigious A’ Design Awards have now been extended to 7 March. >

29 Feb 16
Friends of Light: Handwoven jackets from New York

Inside View > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Fashion designer and professor Pascale Gatzen founded the weaving cooperative Friends of Light to help bring a little mindfulness back into fashion. >

25 Feb 16
Pascale Gatzen

Pascale Gatzen is an artist, educator and fashion designer based in New York. She developed an alternative fashion curriculum at Parsons The New School. >

25 Feb 16
Using DIY-biotechnology, Kazuya Kawasaki is changing the fashion of the future

Next Generation > Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Kazuya Kawasaki is a graduate of Keio University and a bio-activist using speculative design to pursue the possiblities of growing materials for fashion. >

24 Feb 16
Joselyn Umutoniwase: Representing Rwanda through fashion

Video Interviews > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Joselyn Umutoniwase quit filmmaking to focus on starting Rwanda Clothing, a Kigali-based label representing fashion in her home country. >

24 Feb 16 / Brand Collaboration

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