am a fashion designer, I own the clothing brand Afrogrunge. I focus on curating black culture with a mix of alternative subcultures within the South African context. I do this by designing garments that reflect alternative subcultures and fashion them on black bodies, seen in different locations within South Africa's townships or spaces. Part of my creativity has a sense of sustainability. Where I repurpose my own garment axcess within my work. What this looks like is a patchwork of fabrics, I would have discarded after cutting material to produce my clothing. I keep and combine my own excess fabrics with donated fabrics that people and companies have no use for. Pushing the culture forward through my practice matters because representation and access is important. Like most creatives, my why started from a personal experience of being very stylistically different and into rock music at a time and space where that was not the communal culture. Afrogrunge was initially a visual reference I created and posted online (Tumblr) so that when another young black girl around any part of the world resonated with being black and into the grunge aesthetic, they would see me as an existing visual reference on their online searches. Specifically in South Africa I wanted to be the go-to shop for alternative shopping especially eLokshini. I am still working on that vision.