Stella Hertantyo, Author at twyg

The Fold reveals and preserves fashion heritages

African textile heritages hold clues to how we can change fashion and disrupt stereotypes. “African fashion is interwoven with values of ancient principles such as sustainability, respect, culture, and knowledge that couldn’t be more crucial in modern times,” says Durban-based...

November 7, 2023

Fashion

Remind me, what does slow fashion mean?

Slow fashion is not just about countering the speed of an inherently unsustainable fast fashion system. It is also an acknowledgement of the multiplicity of fashion ways needed to build a better fashion system. Slow fashion is a mindset. Kate...

September 15, 2023

Fashion

Kwetu Kwanza celebrates and educates fashion in Uganda

The annual Ugandan sustainable fashion event, Kwetu Kwanza, acts as a platform to motivate, educate, and empower designers to embrace sustainable fashion and offer the rest of us a glimpse into the fashion industry, both good and bad. This year,...

September 13, 2023

Transparency is the key to fashion system change – yet SA retailers fall behind

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Transparency is the key to fashion system change – yet SA retailers fall behind

How much do you know about where your clothes come from? The answer likely is “not much”. In July, Fashion Revolution released its eighth Transparency Index. The Index is an annual review of 250 of the world’s largest fashion brands...

September 5, 2023

6 Takeaways from Africa Textile Talks 2023

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6 Takeaways from Africa Textile Talks 2023

African textiles are woven pathways to a more sustainable world. With the shared acknowledgment that the production of textiles can contribute to transforming the material conditions of livelihoods across the continent, about 200 people gathered for the first-of-its-kind Africa Textile...

September 4, 2023

Design Futures Lab 2023 creatives imagine a brighter future by blurring real and virtual fashion

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Design Futures Lab 2023 creatives imagine a brighter future by blurring real and virtual fashion

“We have a crisis of imagination,” said Marina Gattás, Wellbeing Economy Alliance Brazil Hub Co-Lead, during her presentation at the Design Futures Lab 2023. The lab creatives are addressing this failure of imagination. Using possibilities offered by immersive technology, they...

July 17, 2023

7 South Africans each write a love letter to clothing for #FashionRevolution

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7 South Africans each write a love letter to clothing for #FashionRevolution

An important part of slow fashion is cultivating deeper connections with our clothing. The fast fashion system has convinced us that fashion is purely transactional and clothing is inherently disposable. To heal this system, and create a fair fashion future,...

April 30, 2023

Fashion Guides

A beginners guide to mending resources

By mending and repairing your clothing, you are making sure that you can wear it for longer, which means you are slowing down how much you consume and making sure that less goes to waste. There are two common types...

April 28, 2023

Kokrobitey Institute to host textile art and design residency in Ghana

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Kokrobitey Institute to host textile art and design residency in Ghana

Take time to join this textile residency in West Africa and find out more about indigenous, sustainable and recycled textiles

April 24, 2023

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How to Earth Day 2023

This year marks the 53rd anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement, commemorated annually as Earth Day. Since 1970, billions of individuals from more than 190 countries worldwide have come together every April 22nd to take action toward...

April 21, 2023

South Africa’s oldest weaving guild to host ancient skills textile workshops

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South Africa’s oldest weaving guild to host ancient skills textile workshops

Amidst our culture of consumerism and fast fashion, the legacy and understanding of how things are made have become obscured by complex, modern and globalised supply chains. This means that we tend not to care about our clothes as much...

April 17, 2023

Could the hidden chemicals in clothes be affecting your health?

Fashion

Could the hidden chemicals in clothes be affecting your health?

Toxic chemicals are used and released all along the fashion supply chain from the production of the raw materials to the finishing of garments. These are enormous challenges to sustainability and to human and planetary wellbeing. The toxic chemicals found...

April 4, 2023

Fashion

Viviers Studio takes local collaborations to Milan Fashion Week

South Africa is known for its vast natural landscapes: Lush forests and arid deserts, rocky mountain summits, and engulfing oceans. VIVIERS Studio’s FW23/24 collection, Karroo-land of Thirsts, presented at Milan Fashion Week last month, affirmed that these landscapes provide a...

April 3, 2023

South African story-tailor Cleo Droomer uses fashion to restory the past and shape the future

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South African story-tailor Cleo Droomer uses fashion to restory the past and shape the future

South African story-tailor Cleo Droomer’s design practice is engaged with the philosophical – and practical – enquiry into how the future should embody the past. In a fashion industry that is separated from the past, Cleo’s artfully constructed patchwork Droom...

March 20, 2023

Fashion

Ocean-friendly fashion steals the show at the One Blue Heart gala

Since its invention in the late 1800s, plastic has become ubiquitous in our lives – in our homes, streets, oceans, and clothing. In fact, plastic-based fabrics make up more than 60% of what we wear. On 16 February, the Two...

March 1, 2023

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Author: Stella Hertantyo

The Fold reveals and preserves fashion heritages

Remind me, what does slow fashion mean?

Kwetu Kwanza celebrates and educates fashion in Uganda

Transparency is the key to fashion system change – yet SA retailers fall behind

6 Takeaways from Africa Textile Talks 2023

Design Futures Lab 2023 creatives imagine a brighter future by blurring real and virtual fashion

7 South Africans each write a love letter to clothing for #FashionRevolution

A beginners guide to mending resources

Kokrobitey Institute to host textile art and design residency in Ghana

How to Earth Day 2023

South Africa’s oldest weaving guild to host ancient skills textile workshops

Could the hidden chemicals in clothes be affecting your health?

Viviers Studio takes local collaborations to Milan Fashion Week

South African story-tailor Cleo Droomer uses fashion to restory the past and shape the future

Ocean-friendly fashion steals the show at the One Blue Heart gala

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