Jackie May, Author at twyg

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...

May 22, 2025

Book reviews: Earth Day advice on how to lighten your footprint

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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,...

April 22, 2025

Explainer: What the global tariff war means (for fashion)

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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...

April 2, 2025

Now is not the time to go “back to plastics”

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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...

February 17, 2025

Good Good Good takes Mekeka Designs barkcloth to Paris Fashion Week

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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...

February 10, 2025

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Green your fashion with GOTS

The Global Organic Textile Standard is a trusted certification that facilitates transparency and ensures credibility

January 23, 2025

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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...

December 18, 2024

Decolonising fashion: Lesiba Mabitsela’s journey to Afro-sustainability

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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...

October 8, 2024

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From forest to fabric with Sappi

The demand for wood-based fabrics, including viscose and lyocell, is growing. Broadly, there are two reasons for this – people are drawn to the qualities of these fabrics, and as their concern grows for climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental...

July 22, 2024

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Explore tradition through the lens of 18 designers applying African fashion practices

A gallery in Nairobi was the site of a recent exhibition titled Tradition(al). It was anything but traditional. The works of 18 African fashion designers were showcased in the Kenyan capital from 4 – 12 April, forming part of a...

May 7, 2024

7 Sustainable sunscreens for your summer beach bag

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7 Sustainable sunscreens for your summer beach bag

The heat of the summer is here, and we need to get our sun protection on. Sunscreen is a skincare necessity for protecting against sun-related damage. With the depletion of the ozone layer, our skin has become more vulnerable to...

December 22, 2023

Fashion

Book a table at Confections x Collections 2023 for a fashion showcase and afternoon tea

Confections x Collections is back for a second edition. Set against Table Mountain in the heart of Cape Town this annual coming-together of creative expression fuses five days of exclusive salon-style fashion shows with designer-inspired confectionery. Taking place from 8...

November 11, 2023

Designer dresses up a jet plane in recycled G-Star RAW denim

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Designer dresses up a jet plane in recycled G-Star RAW denim

One of the 21st century’s most important designers, Maarten Baas, has clad a private jet in recycled G-Star RAW jeans linking hyper-consumption with the super-wealthy. For the exhibition More or Less at Milan Design Week, the designer created an opportunity...

July 3, 2023

Dutch artist Jan van Esch explores ethics of the global secondhand clothing trade

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Dutch artist Jan van Esch explores ethics of the global secondhand clothing trade

Clothes are everywhere at the Gallery of the University of Stellenbosch on Dorp Street in Stellenbosch. Bright, appealing life-size marker drawings of clothes hang on the walls of the main gallery space. In the same space, about 80 items of...

April 20, 2023

Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2022 winners are announced

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Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2022 winners are announced

Twyg announced this year’s Sustainable Fashion Awards winners on 17 November 2022 at the Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town. Designers and brands were awarded for their implementation of sustainable, ethical, circular and regenerative design. The over all winner is...

November 18, 2022

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Author: Jackie May

A new pact aims to build a circular future for the SA fashion and textile industry

Book reviews: Earth Day advice on how to lighten your footprint

Explainer: What the global tariff war means (for fashion)

Now is not the time to go “back to plastics”

Good Good Good takes Mekeka Designs barkcloth to Paris Fashion Week

Green your fashion with GOTS

Our top 9 fashion moments of 2024

Decolonising fashion: Lesiba Mabitsela’s journey to Afro-sustainability

From forest to fabric with Sappi

Explore tradition through the lens of 18 designers applying African fashion practices

7 Sustainable sunscreens for your summer beach bag

Book a table at Confections x Collections 2023 for a fashion showcase and afternoon tea

Designer dresses up a jet plane in recycled G-Star RAW denim

Dutch artist Jan van Esch explores ethics of the global secondhand clothing trade

Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2022 winners are announced

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