Based in the United States, Teju is an environmental equity consultant, speaker, and creator and host of the Black Material Geographies podcast. Teju’s lens includes sustainable fibre and fashion...
Fashion
Q&A: Victoria Jenkins creates adaptive fashion that is accessible to all
Over 1 billion people live with some form of disability. Yet, this is not reflected in fashion design, media, runway shows, or editorials. Unhidden is an adaptive fashion brand championing universal...
Q&A: Madhu Vaishnav teaches slow fashion skills to change women’s lives in India
Slow fashion is a lifeline for women in the rural village of Bhikamkor in Rajasthan, India. Founded by Madhu Vaishnav in 2015, Saheli Women works with 75 skilled women who embroider and dye fabric...
6 South African fashion brands celebrating heritage and culture
Fashion is more than just threads on your body. At the recent book launch of Africa Fashion, which showcases a cultural renaissance in fashion across the African continent, Jeanine Benjamin, COO of...
A three-year review of the clothing Master Plan
There was once a thriving local textile production industry in South Africa employing thousands of people, a country which now needs radical job creation. The three-year-old Retail, Clothing,...
What ‘Glam Danger’ tells us about consumer behaviour
What we wear tells us about our consumer behaviour. My first project, when I started working at Twyg in 2020, was to manage and create content for an Instagram account called Glam Danger. It was my...
Fashion finds new teachers for True Fashion: Season 2
How do we learn ‘fashion’? What happens when we meet elsewhere to find our fashion lessons? Will we discover ways to create more socially-just fashion systems, ones filled with respect for each...
Q&A: Tamburai Chirume on how women challenge the fashion system
Tamburai Chirume’s role in the fashion industry is constantly evolving and developing, but one constant is her focus on challenging the idea that sustainability and a regenerative fashion future is...
Alpaca farmers fashion noble fibre into quality garments
An in-flight magazine first sparked Christopher and Alison Notley’s interest in the “noble and aristocratic” alpaca. It's an interest which took them farming in the Western Cape in 2004. The couple...
Q&A: How Kerry Bannigan uses fashion media as a force for good
New York-based Kerry Bannigan is a fashion disruptor in all of the best ways possible. After graduating from university Kerry knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur who could drive positive change....
How decolonised African fashion is inhabiting the V&A Museum
The Africa Fashion exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, seeks to reconsider and reflect the rich makings and functioning of Africa’s recent fashion history and industry. Since countries...
We’ve all heard of SHEIN. But why are people buying from them?
Online retailer SHEIN is regularly the subject of discussions about how it is responsible for the rise of ultra fast fashion, relies on exploitative labour practices, and creates garments containing...
11 Fashion designers in South India respond to their deep connection to nature
Text by Shirin Mehta. Interviews and styling by Akanksha Pandey. Photography by Carl Van Der Linde. With strong ties to various parts of South India, designers who have spent a significant part of...
Q&A: Phumelela Malinga creates inclusive gender-neutral clothing
The first thing you will notice about local brand BY PHUME’s designs is that they are unafraid to go against the grain. Started by Phumelela Malinga, a mechanical engineering graduate Design Indaba...
Notes to nature
Leandi Mulder is a designer with a deep understanding of natural fibres and textiles. Her MA Fashion graduate collection Notes to nature is an expression of this and acts as a love letter to the...