Fashion
Wool, land and people of Morocco
These photos by Pierre Girardin show how craft, climate, and community are inseparable
The world according to Bubu Ogisi
What made IAMISIGO the 'breakout brand of Copenhagen Fashion Week'
Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2025
Are you implementing sustainable, circular and regenerative approaches to fashion design? Are you fostering ethical practices?
Africa Textile Talks Day 2: Wool, nature and people
Passionate farmers and industry experts produce one of South Africa’s most valuable exports: wool. Annually the extended wool community meets at the WoolCycle networking event to discuss achievements, challenges and opportunities. This year Cape Wools SA invited Twyg to host...
Africa Textile Talks Day 1: Circular solutions for South Africa’s textile industry
Circularity was the focus of the first day of Africa Textile Talks 2025 on 29 July at the V&A Watershed in Cape Town. A broad range of industry players from small businesses and independent designers to representatives from national retailer...
Explore Threads of Renewal
This year Africa Textile Talks extended its offering with an exhibition titled Threads of Renewal curated by Twyg’s fashion editor, Tandekile Mkize. Open for the duration of the talks programme, 29 July – 2 August, the exhibition created a space...
The natural evolution of Industrie Africa
When Nisha Kanabar founded Industrie Africa in 2018, the global conversation around African fashion felt stagnant with repetitive tropes, heritage clichés, and little space for evolution. This motivated her to challenge Western perceptions of African design, and to boost international...
Explainer: How SHEIN and Temu are disrupting SA’s fashion economy
What do platforms like Shein and Temu mean for jobs and local businesses?
Fashion meets conservation in the Drakensberg
In the Southern Drakensberg near Matatiele in the Eastern Cape, a group of farmers and herders is part of a decade-long project supported by the H&M Group and World Wide Fund for Nature to create a more sustainable fashion industry....
Explainer: How to measure the true cost of your clothes
Do you know how to measure the true cost of your clothes? Read on to learn about Life Cycle Assessments. We’ll be learning about life cycle assessments (LCAs) on the first day of Africa Textile Talks, Tuesday, 29 July. Days...
Q&A with Mozambican textile maker Wacy Zacarias
For Mozambican designer, healer, and storyteller Wacy Zacarias, textiles are more than materials: they’re tools for healing, remembering, and regenerating. “I don’t just design with aesthetics in mind,” she says. “I design with purpose, ritual, and relationship.” Sustainability is woven...
Explainer: The future of colour
The future of colour is brewing. Colorifix is on a journey to replace petrochemical-based textile dyes with ones made from microbes. The result? Vibrant dyes that use: 77% less water 19% less energy 31% fewer carbon emissions There’s a bright...
The Story of Ambani Fish Leather
Next-generation leather has been all the rage in the last 20 years. Leather has always been a no-brainer material in human societies, maximising what we can get out of the animals we hunt and farm. However, industrialisation and mass manufacturing...