Fashion & Jewellery Design | Design Indaba

Five things to know about Ane Crabtree, the latest Design Indaba 2019 speaker

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation

She’s known as the designer of all of our favourite apocalyptic TV shows like Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale. >

10 Oct 18
A New Zealand company is making raincoats out of recycled fibres

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Humble Raincoat is made of recycled plastic bottles. >

20 Aug 18
Gale Maimane on her new short film, starring Zoe Modiga, called Me

Design News > Art & Photography / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Music & Sound Design

“We wanted to make a piece that encapsulates fashion and music in a skilful way. A tender way. A femme way.” >

15 Aug 18
9 creatives to look out for this Women's Month

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

To celebrate Women's Month, we're highlighting the work of some of our former participants in the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme. >

6 Aug 18
Underwater couture for an uncertain future by biomimicry designer Jun Kamei

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

The Royal College of Art grad’s 3D-printed garments are for a world submerged in water. >

30 Jul 18
From Design Indaba to a youthful population: Africa is on (creative) fire!

Festival News > Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation / Music & Sound Design

At WGSN last week, we held intense seminars and workshops sharing trends from our global editors, and, from these, one thing became certain: >

16 Jul 18
Design Indaba 2018: A festival of optimism in the face of ecological turmoil

Festival News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Design Indaba 2018 once again lured a roster of international designers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists to Cape Town. >

16 Jul 18
Braille clothing is making it easier for the visually impaired to get dressed

Festival News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Getting dressed when you’re blind presents challenges that those of us privileged enough to have sight don’t understand. >

13 Jul 18
Leading local fashion designer Thabo Makhetha takes her blanket approach to the next level

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Design Indaba Emerging Creatives alumna Thabo Makhetha is now crowdfunding to produce her own textile designs. >

12 Jul 18
Zambian fashion entrepreneur on prints, nostalgia and the importance of finding synergy

Design Frontiers > African Design / Craft / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Lucy Mulima started Aya Goods after years spent working in fashion, PR and media. >

5 Jul 18
Minimal Exposure on careful, considered, slow fashion

Design News > Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

“I find it difficult to call ourselves a fashion brand because the term fashion to me implies fast and fleeting.” >

25 Jun 18
The maker of Algiknit talks seaweed fashion and the next stage of biotech

Talks > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Aleksandra Gosiewski's work touches on sustainable ways to fix the disconnect within the fashion industry. >

20 Jun 18
Aso Oke fabric travels from head to toe

Design Frontiers > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

A Nigerian designer is translating his passion for traditional Nigerian fabric into an unusual design application. >

12 Jun 18
Monitor air pollution with these reactive sweatshirts

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Aerochromics drives air pollution awareness with smart textile garments. >

12 Jun 18
Durban fashion designer Balini Naidoo on creating a range of clothes for the visually impaired

Design News > African Design / Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Emerging Creative 2018 wants to help visually-impaired people to become more self-reliant and independent when making clothing choices. >

24 May 18
Nigerian-Jamaican photographer Nadine Ijewere draws on her heritage for #StellaBy series

Design News > Art & Photography / Fashion & Jewellery Design

“I wanted to give a feeling of diversity and not sticking to the rules – being different." >

24 May 18
Xhosa culture, heritage, colour inspires Thandazani Nofingxana's designs

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

The South African fashion designer exhibited at the Design Indaba Festival 2018 as one of 40 Emerging Creatives. >

18 May 18
Conscious fashion: Amna Elshandaweely’s take on fashion and revolution

Talks > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Cairo designer makes a moving case for social impact with something as simple as the clothes we wear. >

15 May 18
Learn how these wearables serve the hearing impaired

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

"How can the deaf and hearing-impaired community experience music, without actually hearing it?" >

3 May 18
Imagine if you never had to complain about missing socks ever again?

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

These Danish entrepreneurs are redesigning socks to make them more sustainable. >

25 Apr 18
6 designers who use waste as inspiration for new products

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Food Design / Product Design

From upcycling found objects into furniture, to jewellery made of e-waste and more. >

20 Apr 18
The Araba Belle androgynous capes are inspired by Ghana’s coast

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Accra-based fashion brand DoNeal was inspired by the people and landscape of Ghana's Cape Coast. >

15 Apr 18
MaXhosa launches rug collection and appoints new creative director

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Changes are afoot for the acclaimed South African fashion brand. >

13 Apr 18
Six creative crowdfunding projects worth supporting this April

Take Five > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

From a wordless graphic novel to a project to turn an olive farm into a retreat for creatives and even a project turning plastic into homeware. >

12 Apr 18

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