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These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are using their wells of creativity to define culture in a myriad of magical ways.
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19 Dec 18
Bonolo Moloi
The interior designer turned jewellery designer
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29 Nov 18
Shaline Naicker
The 21-year-old fashion designer is inspired by technology to create wearable art.
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29 Nov 18
Zane Ngwenya
Fashion and Textile Designer
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29 Nov 18
Therusha Chetty
Fashion and accessory designer
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29 Nov 18
Kelly Maughan
Jewellery designer.
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29 Nov 18
Hlengi Baloyi
A young, self-taught fashion and accessories designer.
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29 Nov 18
Yanela Mtolo
Fashion and Textile designer
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29 Nov 18
Mbali Mthethwa
Jewellery designer.
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29 Nov 18
Kgahlego Kewana
A designer combining the unlikely worlds of medicine and fashion design.
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21 Nov 18
Taz Watson
Taz Watson designs jewellery that is gentle on the Earth
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16 Nov 18
Eleazer Radebe
This Durban-born, Cape Town based designer works in both fashion and interior design.
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16 Nov 18
Mohau Seboka
The fashion designer's work merges tradition with contemporary fashion.
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16 Nov 18
Five things to know about Ane Crabtree, the latest Design Indaba 2019 speaker
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She’s known as the designer of all of our favourite apocalyptic TV shows like Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale.
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10 Oct 18
A New Zealand company is making raincoats out of recycled fibres
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Humble Raincoat is made of recycled plastic bottles.
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20 Aug 18
Gale Maimane on her new short film, starring Zoe Modiga, called Me
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“We wanted to make a piece that encapsulates fashion and music in a skilful way. A tender way. A femme way.”
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15 Aug 18
9 creatives to look out for this Women's Month
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To celebrate Women's Month, we're highlighting the work of some of our former participants in the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme.
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6 Aug 18
Underwater couture for an uncertain future by biomimicry designer Jun Kamei
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The Royal College of Art grad’s 3D-printed garments are for a world submerged in water.
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30 Jul 18
From Design Indaba to a youthful population: Africa is on (creative) fire!
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At WGSN last week, we held intense seminars and workshops sharing trends from our global editors, and, from these, one thing became certain:
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16 Jul 18
Design Indaba 2018: A festival of optimism in the face of ecological turmoil
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Design Indaba 2018 once again lured a roster of international designers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists to Cape Town.
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16 Jul 18
Braille clothing is making it easier for the visually impaired to get dressed
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Getting dressed when you’re blind presents challenges that those of us privileged enough to have sight don’t understand.
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13 Jul 18
Leading local fashion designer Thabo Makhetha takes her blanket approach to the next level
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Design Indaba Emerging Creatives alumna Thabo Makhetha is now crowdfunding to produce her own textile designs.
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12 Jul 18
Zambian fashion entrepreneur on prints, nostalgia and the importance of finding synergy
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Lucy Mulima started Aya Goods after years spent working in fashion, PR and media.
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5 Jul 18
Minimal Exposure on careful, considered, slow fashion
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“I find it difficult to call ourselves a fashion brand because the term fashion to me implies fast and fleeting.”
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25 Jun 18
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