Things didn’t go to plan on my last visit to Burkina Faso, where I’d intended to document the ancient technique of indigo dyeing. I found out that to follow the whole process I would need to spend several days, if not weeks, in a remote village where the dyeing takes place in pits dug…
Tag: African accessories
Fashion Revolution Day 2015
This Friday, 24th April, is Fashion Revolution Day. It is an annual event to commemorate the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh 2 years ago. Fashion Revolution is a campaign to change the fashion industry into a ‘force for good’, which means that clothes and accessories are made by people who are…
Community Development with SAHEL Design
SAHEL Design is about people and products. We make beautiful, unique accessories that can’t be found elsewhere. Then we sell them and reinvest the profits into the communities that made them. We don’t accept charity or ‘pity purchases’ and we don’t want to impose our own ideas on how these communities should develop. They, not…