10 Top moments that shaped African fashion in 2025
This was a year of momentum for African fashion. From museum exhibitions to global fashion stages, designers have shaped conversations about craft, culture, and sustainability.
Fashion
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
13 South African sustainable swimwear brands
Your guide to swimwear made with care
Explainer: The State of Fashion 2026
Key insights from fashion’s annual industry report
Confections x Collections 2025
For the fourth edition of CxC, four fashion designers brought their whimsical, bold, storied and emotional tailoring to the Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town
Onesimo Bam on Langa streets
This Cape Town-based fashion artist took his new avant-garde collection to the oldest township in South Africa and transformed a public space. Photos: Andile Buka
Finalists announced for the 2025 Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards
Meet the 2025 finalists
Explainer: Fatal fires in Bangladesh
One week. Three fires. Sixteen workers dead.
Why is Accra a dumping ground for global waste?
The founder of circularity lab The Revival makes sense of a fashion crisis in Accra
Mohair’s soft landing in the Cape
With this fashion editorial, we trace the surprising origin story of an illustrious South African fibre industry
Ethiopian quarter: how migrants have shaped a thriving shopping district in South Africa’s city of gold
The Chaos Precinct by Tanya Zack uncovers how Ethiopian traders reshaped Johannesburg’s inner city into an “inland port” for southern Africa.
Explainer: South African minister meets Shein
Gayton McKenzie is defending his decision to meet with SHEIN representatives
From leather to trade cloth: Namibian indigenous aesthetic politics in textiles
Maria Caley's presentation at the 2025 Africa Textile Talks
Explainer: Why you should switch your polyester kit for natural fibres
What's the problem with synthetic activewear?
When ‘sustainable’ fashion backfires on the environment
How innovations in the circular economy can actually potentially wiping out any environmental gains.