In 2015, Cape Town-based Raihana Govender co-founded Mors Design, an up-cycle initiative specialising in manufacturing bags made from recycled tyre tubes. When she met a designer who had made a bag...
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Download the Twyg zine for your summer holiday reading
In celebration of the Twyg Awards winners and finalists, we've curated a zine filled with images and stories about our winners and finalists. Take your time to read it - there is no rush. You will...
Phygital retailer EGG launches with ambitions to boost local product
Cavendish Square ushered in December with the grand opening of concept store best described as a collaborative retail platform and “omni-retail experience and platform redefining the retail...
Q&A: Anyango Mpinga unveils real life truths with a digital fashion campaign
On her twitter feed, Nairobi-born designer Anyango Mpinga referred to her latest campaign as having its roots in a crazy idea. She wrote, "I had this crazy idea for a campaign to dress women in...
Q&A: Shamyra Moodley sees the future of sustainable fashion as DIY-fashion-meets-art
Former accountant turned designer Shamyra Moodley recently participated in her first fashion show. Selected as one of the six designers to join African Fashion International's 2020 year-long...
Winners of Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2020 announced
The second annual Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards took place last night at Rewoven's recycling textile warehouse in Cape Town. Amongst the prestigious awards handed out on the night, designer Lara...
Q&A: Rebirth SA prioritises sustainable fashion in a post pandemic world
Recycling and upcycling denim from “deadstock” is on trend. We usually don't promote trends because they encourage wasteful consumerism. But we remain dedicated fans of upcycling old and reusable...
Part One: Preferred South African animal fibre textiles
This is part one in our series on preferred South African textiles and where to find them. It's a non-exhaustive list of natural animal fibres like wool, cashmere and mohair, their sourcing and...
Q&A: Style consultant Jessica Ramoshaba says consciously connect with clothes you already have
On a regular basis, the fast fashion industry’s model renders a lot of what we have in our wardrobes, dormant. It has created a consumer culture of ‘buying more and wearing less’, often due to the...
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation: A vision of a circular economy for fashion
Ten-year-old global ‘thought leader’ in circular-thinking, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has released its vision of a circular economy for fashion. In a circular economy, waste and pollution are...
Simon and Mary turns cactus leather into smooth hats
In a bid to move away from producing environmentally unsustainable and unethical textiles, fabric innovation has taken a front seat in the fashion industry and entrepreneurs are looking in their...
Press Release: Twyg Awards 2020 finalists announced
Twyg is honoured to announce the finalists of the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2020. The awards celebrate South African designers leading sustainable, ethical, circular and regenerative practices...
Q&A: LUNAR designers say out of crisis comes much needed change
LUNAR is a South African eco-conscious fashion and lifestyle brand that was founded in the mid 1990s by Karen Ter Morshuizen and Dominique Gatland. Fast-forward to present-day and designers Nicola...
How embroidery broke the silence around women’s apartheid trauma
How do we speak trauma? We know from medicine that people embody trauma, beyond words. It shows up in our hearts and our blood pressure, our dreams and our nightmares; we pass it onto our children,...
10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes
For an entire year, I have not bought new clothes, driven by evidence of the harm the fast fashion industry does to the environment and the people who work in it. This was a big deal for me: I’ve...