Catherine Del Monte, Author at twyg

Q&A: LUNAR designers say out of crisis comes much needed change

LUNAR is a South African eco-conscious fashion and lifestyle brand that was founded in the mid 1990s by Karen Ter Morshuizen and Dominique Gatland. Fast-forward to present-day and designers Nicola Luther and Sonja Stanislaus-Kaw Di-Aping have picked up the baton...

October 23, 2020

Food

Why urban food gardens and permaculture are more important now than ever before

People are hungry. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that over 2 billion people across the globe do not have regular access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. According to the organisation, in one year...

October 16, 2020

Country Road invests R100 000 prize money in Twyg Changemaker Award

Fashion

Country Road invests R100 000 prize money in Twyg Changemaker Award

Putting their money behind sustainable fashion in South Africa, Country Road is sponsoring the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards and a R100 000 cash prize for the winner of the Changemaker category. Founder and director of Twyg, Jackie May, says, “There...

October 8, 2020

Opinion

Q&A: Leila Walters on slow traditional handcrafted textile

Leila Walters is crafting what she calls intentional textiles, dedicated to the slow and handmade. Her brand, Crosspolynations was developed as a platform for creative exploration in 2018 after a sojourn to India during which all her research and ideas...

October 2, 2020

Q&A: Ezokhetho designer, Mpumelelo Dhlamini cuts to cut down waste

Fashion

Q&A: Ezokhetho designer, Mpumelelo Dhlamini cuts to cut down waste

Mpumelelo Dhlamini was born with creativity flowing through his veins. Growing up surrounded by hard-working, fashionable women, this creativity was nurtured, cultivated, and has culminated into his luxury ready-to-wear brand, Ezokhetho. The brand name is isiZulu for “carefully chosen as...

September 25, 2020

VANKLAN is marrying creativity with conservation

Fashion

VANKLAN is marrying creativity with conservation

Alex van Heerden, a 22-year-old fashion and textile design student, has caught the industry’s attention. Alex’s fashion journey began later than most. Fresh out school, she was set to follow her friends to Stellenbosch to study teaching. Although, she had...

September 21, 2020

Q&A: Designer Ntando XV Ngwenya wonders why we still import clothes

Opinion

Q&A: Designer Ntando XV Ngwenya wonders why we still import clothes

Ntando XV Ngwenya founded an eponymous artisanal clothing brand in 2015 which seeks to break with the norms of how and why clothes are made. After wowing SA Fashion Week AW20 with his XV Project 0,8, his collection caught the...

September 11, 2020

Beauty

Beauty Spot: How O’live grew from passion project to livelihood

Husband and wife team, Sipho and Zikhona Tefu started their organic, handmade and natural skincare brand O’live in their kitchen in 2011. Zikhona produced a batch of 10 soaps as a personal experiment to move towards a more natural lifestyle...

September 9, 2020

4 Ethical underwear brands made in South Africa

Fashion

4 Ethical underwear brands made in South Africa

Spring has sprung and for many it means a closet clean-out. When it comes to curating a conscious closet, underwear can be tricky. While your old drawers can be darned and mended, these items are seldom swapped, borrowed, thrifted or...

September 7, 2020

Q&A: Denzel Vilakazi launched NESU as an expression of being African

Fashion

Q&A: Denzel Vilakazi launched NESU as an expression of being African

South African designer Denzel Vilakazi studied Fashion Design at the Tshwane University of Technology. After placing second at the Sansui Summer Cup in Gauteng in 2017, the Edcon Group pulled him into their 21 Steps to Retail programme where he...

September 4, 2020

Earth-friendly period products made in South Africa

Beauty

Earth-friendly period products made in South Africa

With a growing, global consciousness about the environment, the need for sustainable feminine products is obvious. Enter Juanita Kotze who, with partners Aldré Geldenhuys of V&G Personal Products and designer Eugenie Marais, has developed the country’s first locally manufactured, environmentally-friendly...

September 3, 2020

Exhibition of wearable art sews together parallel stories of Settler history

Fashion

Exhibition of wearable art sews together parallel stories of Settler history

The opening of the Cuttings 1820 – 2020 exhibition, a tribute to South African women and their histories, is a fitting closing to Women’s Month. The symbolically-charged collaborative exhibition by artist, Pippa Hetherington and the Keiskamma Art Project explores the...

August 31, 2020

How the women in Pavs Pillay’s life shaped her eco-activism

Opinion

How the women in Pavs Pillay’s life shaped her eco-activism

With a letterbox stuffed with acceptance letters to study occupational therapy, physiotherapy and medicine from The University of Witwatersrand, Pavs decided to continue the work of her role models and fight for social and environmental injustices. In 2001, she graduated...

August 24, 2020

SwopAnything: a marketplace inspired by circular thinking

Opinion

SwopAnything: a marketplace inspired by circular thinking

The vision of a circular economy is inspiring businesses all over the world to create innovative solutions to increase the lifespan of our stuff. These solutions are addressing our ‘waste culture’ and the larger environmental problems that go with it....

August 20, 2020

REEFER lights up its new branding with hemp sneaker

Fashion

REEFER lights up its new branding with hemp sneaker

South African sneaker brand, Corks was the first of its kind in South Africa to release a shoe range made out of cork. Now, the company has launched its unisex hemp sneaker range on the back of its rebranding campaign....

August 14, 2020

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Author: Catherine Del Monte

Q&A: LUNAR designers say out of crisis comes much needed change

Why urban food gardens and permaculture are more important now than ever before

Country Road invests R100 000 prize money in Twyg Changemaker Award

Q&A: Leila Walters on slow traditional handcrafted textile

Q&A: Ezokhetho designer, Mpumelelo Dhlamini cuts to cut down waste

VANKLAN is marrying creativity with conservation

Q&A: Designer Ntando XV Ngwenya wonders why we still import clothes

Beauty Spot: How O’live grew from passion project to livelihood

4 Ethical underwear brands made in South Africa

Q&A: Denzel Vilakazi launched NESU as an expression of being African

Earth-friendly period products made in South Africa

Exhibition of wearable art sews together parallel stories of Settler history

How the women in Pavs Pillay’s life shaped her eco-activism

SwopAnything: a marketplace inspired by circular thinking

REEFER lights up its new branding with hemp sneaker

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