Can dress hire find a place in traditional African fashion?
Struggling to find a dress for a wedding, Adeleen Cloete investigates the potential of dress hire for traditional African formalwear
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Shanghai hosts cutting edge textile trade fair
Are you looking for global inspiration about sustainable and technical innovations in textiles? The Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics fair could be your answer.
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10 Fashion trends for 2026
Fashion trend reports are usually about colour, shape and mood. This one is not.
10 Top moments that shaped African fashion in 2025
This was a year of momentum for African fashion. From museum exhibitions to global fashion stages, designers have shaped conversations about craft, culture, and sustainability.
Explainer: Beautiful, low-waste wrapping
Our tips for planet-conscious gift wrapping.
Fashion festival in Uganda looks to the earth for answers
Kwetu Kwanza highlights a new wave of designers turning waste, bark, banana fibre, and forgotten textiles into fashion
13 South African sustainable swimwear brands
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South Africa’s most thoughtful gift guide for 2025
This year’s Twyg guide celebrates thoughtful, slow-made, locally rooted gifts — offerings that carry intention, impact and joy.
Threads of Renewal II: Weaving memory, healing, and future-making
This exhibition explores two interconnected themes — Memory & Ancestry and Healing & Resistance — transforming fabric into a vessel for remembrance, care, and renewal.
Explainer: Sunscreen safety, for you and our ocean
Use it. But know what it does — to you and the ocean.
Meet the winners of the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2025
A newly appointed jury of six international and local leaders selected winners across nine categories, recognising excellence in design, material innovation, trans-seasonal fashion, retail, and social impact.
Explainer: The State of Fashion 2026
Key insights from fashion’s annual industry report
Confections x Collections 2025
For the fourth edition of CxC, four fashion designers brought their whimsical, bold, storied and emotional tailoring to the Mount Nelson hotel in Cape Town