10 Twyg picks for Design Week South Africa | Cape Town
What to see and do this Design Week
Author: Jackie May
Africa Textile Talks 2025. The Johannesburg edition
Join us at 44 Stanley Avenue. 9 – 12 October 2025
The world according to Bubu Ogisi
What made IAMISIGO the 'breakout brand of Copenhagen Fashion Week'
The natural evolution of Industrie Africa
When Nisha Kanabar founded Industrie Africa in 2018, the global conversation around African fashion felt stagnant with repetitive tropes, heritage clichés, and little space for evolution. This motivated her to challenge Western perceptions of African design, and to boost international...
Explainer: How SHEIN and Temu are disrupting SA’s fashion economy
What do platforms like Shein and Temu mean for jobs and local businesses?
Global players at Allfashion Sourcing put spotlight on local stakes
Allfashion Sourcing Cape Town, an annual trade show, casts light on a globalised and complex supply chain with most product exhibited last week from China and other countries. Operating under German company Messe Frankfurt, the show facilitates business-to-business networking and...
Mohair South Africa prepares for a new era
South Africa produces more than half of the world’s mohair—an elegant, durable fibre used by designers across the globe. Now, with a new brand identity and sustainability partnerships in place, Mohair South Africa is future-proofing the industry while honouring its...
A new pact aims to build a circular future for the SA fashion and textile industry
Can collaboration help fix fashion? In South Africa, Green Cape has launched an initiative to unite retailers, recyclers, designers, and policymakers to co-create a circular economy pact for the textiles industry. From local tailors to large manufacturers, the future of...
Book reviews: Earth Day advice on how to lighten your footprint
Figuring out how to lighten your footprint and reduce your carbon emissions is overwhelming. Firstly, it feels too hard − we live in complex and intersecting social, economic and political systems that have evolved over a very long time. Secondly,...
Explainer: What the global tariff war means (for fashion)
Everyone is in a state of shock at the trade war that has broken out after the US introduced new tariffs to penalise countries that export more goods and services to the US than they import from the US. It’s...
Now is not the time to go “back to plastics”
Plastics resource extraction, production, and use are out of control. This is what a group of renowned scientists have declared. Plastics are driving climate change, polluting our environment, entering our bloodstreams and even our brains. For these reasons – and...
Good Good Good takes Mekeka Designs barkcloth to Paris Fashion Week
At the Africa Textile Talks in August 2024, Ugandan textile experts Josephine Mukasa and Pamela Kyagera presented barkcloth—an indigenous and renewable Ugandan textile—to an audience of 200 in Cape Town. The designers from Good Good Good were in attendance, and...
Green your fashion with GOTS
In an ideal world, all fashion and textiles should have positive impacts on people and planet. The production of fibres and fabrics should not harm soil health, water, biodiversity, and people. Instead, the reality is that textile production continues to...
Our top 9 fashion moments of 2024
As 2024 draws to an end, we have compiled a list of our top 9 fashion moments of the year. Some are moments we curated for you, others are events that we believe are transformative and progressive for fashion. And...
Decolonising fashion: Lesiba Mabitsela’s journey to Afro-sustainability
Lesiba Mabitsela is a South African designer, thinker, gentle agitator and researcher whose output is characterised by a deep respect for the world and those who inhabit it. He is also the co-founder of African Fashion Research Institute (AFRI) and...