The fashion industry is notorious for being one of the top polluting and exploitative business sectors. Its sourcing and production processes can be taxing on the environment, characterised by a high carbon footprint, large amounts of water consumption and waste production and the use of toxic chemicals. Worker conditions, especially in Asian factories servicing Western retail giants, are sometimes deplorable. 22 Sep 2017
Levi's is celebrating 50 years of its iconic Type III Trucker jacket by opening a pop-up tailor shop in 70 Juta Street Braamfontein, open to the public only until 14 October 2017. 22 Sep 2017
MILAN, Italy - Fashion week roared into Milan on Wednesday with a line-up of hotly anticipated shows from fresh talent as well as luxury titans ranging from Moschino to Armani, who are battling for their share of a rebounding market. 21 Sep 2017
Online kitchenware and homeware retailer, Yuppiechef, has announced the launch of its first brick and mortar store signaling the start of its omnichannel journey. The outlet is due to open at the Willowbridge Shopping Centre in Tyger Valley on 1 October 2017. 19 Sep 2017
Marketing agency Nonzero is collaborating with Standard Bank to create the Business of Fashion accelerator programme, ‘Threads - stitched by Standard Bank', to boost South Africa's up-and-coming fashion designers and turn them into powerful fashion CEOs. 15 Sep 2017
Recently Marie Claire, a major fashion magazine, published its first-ever sustainability issue. It represents one of the first times mainstream fashion turned a comprehensive and thoughtful eye on itself with regards to environmental and social issues. 15 Sep 2017
Operating margins were ripped to shreds at Rex Trueform - the owner of niche fashion retailing chain Queenspark - in the year to end-June. 12 Sep 2017
NEW YORK, US - Tory Burch led efforts on day two of New York Fashion Week on Friday to head off troubled times by offering an upbeat collection of bold color and geometric print. The US doyenne of preppy chic confected an English garden in the grounds of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a bucolic backdrop for a fresh and buoyant collection. 11 Sep 2017
PARIS, France - A host of French-owned fashion labels spanning Christian Dior to Saint Laurent pledged Wednesday to ban ultra-thin models from their advertising and catwalk shows following criticism that the industry encourages anorexia. 6 Sep 2017
Jeweller, gemologist and entrepreneur Janine Binneman, the name and face behind Janine Binneman Jewellery Design, is using her thriving Cape Town business to empower women. Acutely aware of her role as a small business owner in creating job opportunities, she focuses her recruitment efforts on employing females whom she then trains and mentors in the craft of jewellery manufacturing. 30 Aug 2017
Nick Stein and Richard Frankel, who brought the Australian eco brand, Boody, to South Africa in October 2015, have introduced a Boody babywear range and are about to launch in 10 stores in Mauritius. 29 Aug 2017
Couturier David Tlale will launch his new ‘diffusion line' collection at select Edgars stores in September 2017. 24 Aug 2017
South African designer Gavin Rajah and homeware retailer @home will launch a limited edition collection of hand crafted linen and scented candles in store on 23 November 2017. The range, Prêt À Vivre (ready to live), is available for pre-order online from 17-31 August 2017. 23 Aug 2017
The arrival of digital textile printing in Cape Town can revive the local clothing and textile manufacturing industry and salvage some of the job opportunities lost to China. Craig Whyte, CEO of digital printing specialists ArtLab, has invested close to R10-million in new printing equipment over the past few years to bring digital textile printing to South Africa. 18 Aug 2017
SA's clothing retail sector is hanging by a thread after nearly a decade's strong performance. Factors such as unemployment, credit, competition and saturation in the market are likely to make it nearly impossible for the sector to grow the way it did in its glory days. 17 Aug 2017
With an illustrious career spanning 40 years, designer, icon, businesswoman, mentor and all-around creative Marianne Fassler remains a formidable force in South Africa's fashion industry. 14 Aug 2017
#NEWSWATCH: Canadian shoe company Aldo has agreed to acquire the footwear and accessories operations of the Connecticut-based Camuto Group. The deal creates a new footwear powerhouse, merging Aldo's retail strength with the Camuto Group's expertise in wholesale. 4 Aug 2017
Bata South Africa is currently restructuring, repositioning and revamping its operation nationwide to be in line with brand uniformity across the globe. Globally, Bata has 5,200 retail stores in more than 70 countries, as well as production facilities in 18 countries. 3 Aug 2017
Fifteen South African fashion designers have shown off their style this week at Pure London, one of the UK's most prestigious fashion trade events where over 700 brands were expected to exhibit their work. 26 Jul 2017
Curated interior and lifestyle design marketplace WallpaperStore will be popping up in Cape Town in mid-September at the V&A Waterfront's Silo District, just in time for the opening of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. 25 Jul 2017