Earlier this month, The Sewing Café, a community-based studio, launched an in-house clothing label, Min, which is available online and at Saint Sienna in Kalk Bay. The sustainable basics...
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18 Fashion brands ensuring South Africans don’t break the law
In this article you will find a non-exhaustive list of sustainable fashion brands in South Africa who recognise their responsibility to give back through properly made masks that are made to prescribed government standards.
For #RefashionPlastic Our Workshop weaves baskets from recycled plastic
Artist and designer Heath Nash, founded Our Workshop in 2016 to create a free-to-use space where 23 members gather, share knowledge and make stuff. Heath first opened the workshop in the...
Simon and Mary hats take shape with natural fabrics
Sustainability is at the core of the Simon and Mary family business. Besides establishing a business that has grown with one generation to the next, the Pozniak family has made quality...
Model activist Liyanna B talks sustainability and influencer culture in 2020
Black and Brown folks have always been sustainable, it’s not a foreign concept, if anything it’s been a way of life from the beginning of time for many of us. This is what South African...
How designer Hamzeh Alfarahneh refashions his kitchen’s plastic waste
In the first of five articles about designers who participated in the #RefashionPlastic campaign for Plastic Free Mzansi, Hamzeh Alfarahneh explains the shift in thinking this project inspired.
The innovation and sustainability of creating images during lockdown
In her monthly column, Modupe Oloruntoba says creative solutions for working around COVID-19 restrictions may offer new avenues for improving sustainability in fashion image production.
Q&A with designer Tessa O’Halloran on rethinking plastic waste
Exciting things are happening in a small studio in the Karoo where plasticity. re-imagines waste plastic. This bespoke upcycling company based in Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape was...
10 Shoe brands we’re loving right now
We’ve been on the lookout for sustainable footwear brands on the South African and international market that combine comfort, sustainability, and social responsibility. We've come up with...
Shift in Flow
Fashion is exploring and evolving as it breaks away from hallowed traditions. It might very well be in the process of becoming an industry that considers its impact on the environment,...
The Covid coat offers upcycled protection
Cape Town-based design and manufacturing studio, The Sewing Café, is taking care of front-liners and commuters to help keep them safe with these affordable, practical, comfortable and...
Transcript: Interview with SACTUW’s Etienne Vlok about the retail and textile masterplan
On Wednesday, 3 June, editor-in-chief of Twyg Magazine, Jackie May was in conversation with SACTWU's National Industrial Policy Officer, Etienne Vlok to discuss the retail, clothing,...
The best sustainable materials for your face mask
Since face masks have become a mandatory wardrobe staple in South Africa, the clothing industry has been rapidly fashioning face masks out of all kinds of material from pillowcases, old...
Q&A: Makhosazane Sekgwama transforms T-shirt waste into designer homeware
Inspired by the KwaZulu-Natal landscapes, Makhosazane Sekgwama crochets baskets, pot plant covers, pouffes, throws and rugs using recycled cotton fabric from waste fabric. The philosophy...
Lagos Fashion Week: Highlights from Woven Threads
The fourth annual edition of Woven Threads, held last month, was a fully digital event. Because of the global pandemic, studio visits, talks and workshops highlighting the work of ten...