For Cape Town-based textile artist, Gina van der Ploeg, textiles are not an end in themselves. Instead, she honours the entire process of making textiles by exploring the different parts of the...
Features
A night fit for our stars: the 5th annual Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards
Designers, members of the media, finalists, judges, sponsors and visionaries turned out in well-heeled force at the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards event on Thursday 23 November 2023. To celebrate...
The Fold reveals and preserves fashion heritages
African textile heritages hold clues to how we can change fashion and disrupt stereotypes. “African fashion is interwoven with values of ancient principles such as sustainability, respect, culture,...
Artist Noluthando Lobese upcycles waste to reframe Johannesburg realities
There’s no such thing as waste without value, not for Noluthando Lobese. The visual artist and set and costume designer sees “waste” materials as toys and as invitations to play and create....
Entrepreneur in Mauritius recycles textile waste to make bricks
As a child Mujahid Emambokus and his father tended to plants in the small backyard of his childhood home in Mauritius. The time spent in the family garden, instilled in him a respect for the...
How pop sensation Sho Madjozi helps keep Tsonga culture alive
South African rapper Sho Madjozi is a bold and colourful presence in pop culture, as famous for her catchy lyrics as for using traditional clothing and dance in a fresh way. The musician, actress...
Fashion innovator recycles fish waste into leather products
When Newton Owino looked at the daily fish waste along his community beach, he thought he'd do something about it. Now the fashion innovator has a customer base on three continents. bird story...
Meet the stellar line up of judges for the 5th edition of the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards
For the fifth annual edition of the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards, our panel of judges bring a strong global perspective to the 2023 awards. This will be the second year this panel will be judging...
Fashion prepares for a climate changed future
“Dressing for the apocalypse” has become only half-jest. A wardrobe built to cope in a world of record breaking temperatures, increased flooding or more unexpected icy cold snaps and fierce winds...
New initiative sparks concerns over impact of Western imports on African fashion
A recent announcement about a new textile initiative to be launched in South Africa next month has been met with interest. Faro has been touted as a solution for reducing textile waste in the global...
Twyg is going to market
For ten weeks every Wednesday evening, Twyg will be at the Oranjezicht Night Market for their Wednesday Night Market in Granger Bay, Cape Town. Explore a curated selection of local and sustainable...
How embroidery helps South African women tell unspeakable stories
Beyond making visually appealing artwork, needlework has always been a useful tool to tell difficult or unspeakable stories. I am a psychologist who wanted to harness the power of visual artistic...
6 Takeaways from Africa Textile Talks 2023
African textiles are woven pathways to a more sustainable world. With the shared acknowledgment that the production of textiles can contribute to transforming the material conditions of livelihoods...
Why investing in an electric car means investing in a better future
Not so long ago more than a third of cars were electric. When gasoline was discovered, this changed, with petrol cars dominating roads for over a century. For a while a future - or a return to the...
Design Futures Lab 2023 creatives imagine a brighter future by blurring real and virtual fashion
“We have a crisis of imagination,” said Marina Gattás, Wellbeing Economy Alliance Brazil Hub Co-Lead, during her presentation at the Design Futures Lab 2023. The lab creatives are addressing this...