It was Rachel Mia's grandmother who gifted her the love of handicraft. Ma Joy taught her to knit, a skill Rachel grew up watching her use to create baby clothing for donation to hospitals. After...
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Five easy ways to make your online shopping more sustainable this festive season
Throughout the holiday season, the urgent need for sustainable consumption is clear. Some 300,000 tonnes of clothing and 471 million small electrical everyday items end up in household waste in the...
Our top 9 fashion moments of 2024
As 2024 draws to an end, we have compiled a list of our top 9 fashion moments of the year. Some are moments we curated for you, others are events that we believe are transformative and progressive...
Students use mohair to craft sustainable fashion futures
The Cape Town-based Design Academy of Fashion (DAF) launched a game-changing project in collaboration with Mohair South Africa this year. Focused on mohair as a locally sourced, circular, and...
Gift Guide: Books, family time and local designer goods
We asked current and previous winners of the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards to share what they're hoping for this Christmas, and what they'll be gifting their loved ones. More time, slower living...
Ilkhe du Toit connects fashion with its origin
Ilkhe du Toit grew up on a Merino sheep farm in Karoo, central South Africa. The fashion and textile designer's childhood helped her develop an early connection to natural fibres and a deep respect...
Sonic interventions reveal local fashion stories and shape collective memories
UN/FOLDING_RE/FOLDING_FOLDED: Imiphindo kwaXhosa is a sonic intervention that re-calls and collates fragments from a collective (hi)story.
Buy Now! New documentary explains reasons for waste and overconsumption
The last few weeks of the year are always a special time — for shopping. But will all this shopping make people happier? Probably not — more than half of Americans say they regret their previous...
Get to know the global experts set to judge 2024 Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards
Leading international and African minds will convene soon to judge this year’s Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards. Once the panel has completed the adjudication process, the finalists will be announced...
29 Finalists for the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2024 are announced
The finalists for the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2024 are announced.
A global call to reduce the production of fashion and what this means for South Africa
With Black Friday around the corner, the global Speak Volumes campaign is asking consumers to count their clothes before buying more, and for brands to review their production numbers before they...
What’s the oldest item in your wardrobe? We asked 6 fashion enthusiasts
Our wardrobes are filled with memories and meaning. There are clothes that you bought with your first pay check, those that were handed down from family or the ones that you bought on a special...
Ngande Textiles uses African batik to shed new light on ancient practices
In less than a month of operation, Ngande Textiles accumulated hundreds of thousands of views on Instagram, sharing the process behind the creation of one-of-a-kind African batik textiles. Founded...
Threads of Africa: A Tapestry of Tradition and Modernity
African fashion is an expression and celebration of the continent's identities, cultures and creativity. At the recent Africa Textile Talks in Cape Town, Merchants on Long, one of the event...
Decolonising fashion: Lesiba Mabitsela’s journey to Afro-sustainability
Lesiba Mabitsela is a South African designer, thinker, gentle agitator and researcher whose output is characterised by a deep respect for the world and those who inhabit it. He is also the...