10 Fashion innovations you need to know about now
The Global Change Award recognises bold, forward-thinking and kind ideas to solve real-world fashion challenges. Meet the 2026 winners
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Africa Textile Talks launches Future Fabrics Student Challenge
Emerging designers, makers and researchers are invited to explore regenerative materials, indigenous knowledge and textile innovation through a new Africa-wide challenge
Africa Textile Talks 2026: Creating thriving textile futures
Join this two-day convening for innovation, regenerative materials, trade, production and African textile and clothing futures
Trade, traceability and learning at Intertextile Shanghai 2026
At one of the world’s largest textile trade fairs, sustainability is no longer a side conversation
Here are the Top 20 finalists for the Global Change Award 2026
Carbon-capturing dyes. Enzyme-powered recycling. Fungi breaking down textile waste. AI reducing factory energy before a single garment is made. These – and many more – are the pioneering innovations that have made it to this year’s Global Change Award top...
The BAM Collective announces latest show: ‘ROMANTICISM 2026’
In a cultural moment dominated by minimalism and understatement, The BAM Collective chooses excess.
The Thebe Magugu Suite and Magugu House Cape Town have been unveiled
A new way to explore Magugu's universe
Picture the possible
A new exhibition curated by Sharon Armstrong and collaborators, Fashion _ The Image positions African fashion photography as a site of intimacy, imagination and futurity.
Vault on Bree showcases Fuata Moyo with city-led street fashion presentation
Fuata Moyo used Bree Street as a stage for storytelling
In Circulation: A newsstand for responsible fashion at the Investec Cape Town Art Fair
Visit our independent newsstand.
Clearly Invincible launches the Lagos Fashion Season 2025 Trend Report
A foundational intelligence report examining media impact, cultural narratives, and data gaps across Lagos’ fashion ecosystem.
An open-access photographic guide to natural fibres
Read the Photographic Encyclopedia of Natural Fibers here
Fashion festival in Uganda looks to the earth for answers
Kwetu Kwanza highlights a new wave of designers turning waste, bark, banana fibre, and forgotten textiles into fashion
Explainer: Sunscreen safety, for you and our ocean
Use it. But know what it does — to you and the ocean.
