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

Après le succès des éditions précédentes, le LVMH Prize revient pour la troisième année consécutive.

LVMH PRIZE

Future Positive Creators Fund

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

Smiley

Sindiso Khumalo to Take Her Colorful, 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.

WWDSamantha Conti

Making a mark - blog.markham.co.za

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

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UndaMeta Limited – We are a marketplace for Afrikan-inspired surface pattern design. Afrika’s first.

UndaMeta Limited

Cape Town Fashion Week Venue | African Fashion International

Cape Town Fashion Week Venue: Get ready for a week of high fashion.Africa’s top creative talents to take over the CTICC.

African Fashion InternationalInsider

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…

BizCommunityBizCommunity

UEL Fashion Speaker Series: Africa’s Evolving Fashion Landscape

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

Eventbrite

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

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

MyBroadbandBianke Neethling

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.

MoneywebAkhona Matshoba

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.

TechCrunchTage Kene-Okafor

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

Revealing the hidden reliance of the fast fashion industry on fossil fuels for the production of synthetic clothes

Changing MarketsGeorge Harding-Rolls

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Messages for the world’s fashion capitals from the front lines of reuse: In Mexico, Ghana and the Philippines, circularity is inextricable from community wellbeing | By Whitney Bauck. [Not behind a paywall]

Twyg announces call for entry for 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. Founder Nicolaj Reffstrup is not leaving anything to chance, having implemented 44 ’responsibility goals’ to follow and hiring full-time teams to trace down every supplier and worker.

Photography ERIKA SVENSSON Interview KONRAD OLSSON

H&M and Remondis form textiles recycling venture

H&M , the world’s second biggest fashion retailer, 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.

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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.

The InterlineThe Interline X Printful

New Material, New Method: 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.

The InterlineThe Interline X NEFFA | New Fashion Factory

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.

Sourcing JournalJasmin Malik Chua

Who decides what’s regenerative?

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

Terra GenesisMari Stuart

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

> Apply Now > Book a meeting Applications for our Dream Assembly Base Camp are now open Supporting the future of Web3 luxury commerce > Apply Now > Book a meeting Base Camp Summary > Starting Mid-April 2023 > Where Fully remote > Duration 12 weeks > Funding (terms apply) $150,000 […]