BUZIGAHILL’s newest collection is titled RETURN TO SENDER. It is a direct response to the impacts of second-hand clothing on Uganda’s textile industry. BUZIGAHILL participates in the global contexts of fashion, art and policy by creating critical interventions. Return to Sender is a collective refusal to remain stuck at the end of the second-hand supply chain. All Materials and accessories were sourced from Owino Market in Kampala and Gikomba Market in Nairobi.
The collection draws inspiration from the optimism of post-independence East Africa. When style signaled freedom, progress, and self-belief. Inspired by photos of grandparents in the 60s and 70s, the collection explores ownership and reinvention.
According to Fashion Revolution’s fashion transparency index 2023, there is enough clothing in the global system for the next six generations. Fast fashion companies continue to overproduce cheap clothing in undisclosed quantities, which ends up as waste sold to the Global South. In Uganda, second-hand now accounts for around 80% of all clothing purchases and has prevented the resurgence of local textile industries. Imported second-hand clothing represent a missed opportunity for creative fashion industries in Uganda. In a defiant act called RETURN TO SENDER, BUZIGAHILL redesigns second-hand clothes from Europe, the USA, and Asia, and redistributes them to their origins in the Global North.
