A meditation on hungry ghosts
Anke Loots and the Slum Studio collaborate on new photography series
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Too much clothing, not enough justice
Stop Waste Colonialism is the latest project from The Or Foundation
3 digital storytellers tackling waste in Africa
Imagining different worlds through immersive games and films
Misaki Tanaka on making sustainable fashion more inclusive
In conversation with the founder of SOLIT Japan
Fearless fashion on every and any gender
Adebayo Oke-Lawal to speak at WDCD Live Amsterdam 2022
A Sweatshop’s Worst Nightmare
Blue Tin Production, a radical female-led co-operative
Clayre Coello & Carmen Serratos: weaving networks between women
Coolhuntermx celebrates women in Mexico's creative industries for #IWD2021
‘A piece of clothing is more than an accessory, it’s ritual transformation’
Mexican fashion designer Carla Fernandez to speak at WDCD Mexico City
‘We’re creating the future of fabrics’
Suzanne Lee (Modern Meadow) announces launch of bio-leather in coming year
Re-imagining African identity
Q&A with WDCD Live Amsterdam 2018 speaker Sunny Dolat
Fruit of a fresh artistic wave over Dakar
Costumes by fashion designer Selly Raby Kane accompany album launch by Ibaaku
A personal view on African beauty
Like her brother Laduma, Tina Ngxokolo draws inspiration from her Xhosa background
Selly Raby Kane in creative lead of Design Indaba 2017
Senegal’s pop culture queen set to shake up Africa's biggest event
Zaaf, a life in a bag
Young Ethiopian woman entrepreneur conquers the world with leather handbags
Saving Ethiopian handloom weaving from extinction
International design brands revive traditional weaving in Ethiopia
A wondrous blend of sights and sounds
Nigerian artist Helen Isibor-Epega stages world's first opera in pidgin
Beyoncé in full SRK
Spotted on the streets of NY
African designers take the world stage
Africa is setting the tone and has a growing influence in fashion from the African continent
‘It’s time to bring change into the stories told’
Senegalese fashion designer Selly Raby Kane takes the stage at WDCD Live Amsterdam
70 design talents to watch
Wearables that encourage the elderly to have a healthier lifestyle
Design fair OBJECT boards ‘SS Rotterdam‘
Work by Pleunie Buyink (legft) and Femke Woltering
Get it in Ghana
Fashion Ghana shows pure African Fashion with humour and class, and a lot of respect for culture and tradition
