Godfrey Katende's label is called IGC Fashion,
the letters stand for Ibrahima and Godfrey's community fashion. Community building
is one of the central aspects of his design work. Since 2017, IG Fashion has been organizing various community events, known as Cyphers, and workshops where the designers show children and adults how to tailor, design and repair ...

     
    Helena Antonia Silva studied law and later social innovation and entrepreneurship. She was looking for a suitable project for her final thesis. This became Vintage for a Cause. At the time, she was living in the center of Porto, in a house where some elderly women lived alone and quite isolated. Helena's idea was to bring these women together with designers and make something out of their seldom or never worn clothes and give them and their clothes a new meaning ...

     
    I really wanted to be there when Sharon presented her fashion. It worked out in December 2024. I met the ecofashion designer from northern Uganda virtually through a friend who is involved in a social project there. A few days before the show, we visit the place where Sharon works. She takes us into a large, single-storey warehouse with lots of small, cubicle-like rooms. Hundreds of people, it seems, are working here, cutting, taking measurements, sitting at sewing machines, bales of colorful fabrics and sewing utensils everywhere ...