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Africa Textile Talks Day 1: Circular solutions for South Africa’s textile industry

From life cycle assessments to textile recycling and policy reform, Day 1 of Africa Textile Talks 2025 examines how circularity could reshape South Africa’s fashion and textile industry.

August 18, 2025

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Explore Threads of Renewal

This year Africa Textile Talks extended its offering with an exhibition titled Threads of Renewal curated by Twyg’s fashion editor, Tandekile Mkize. Open for the duration of the talks programme, 29 July – 2 August, the exhibition created a space...

August 16, 2025

The natural evolution of Industrie Africa

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The natural evolution of Industrie Africa

When Nisha Kanabar founded Industrie Africa in 2018, the global conversation around African fashion felt stagnant with repetitive tropes, heritage clichés, and little space for evolution. This motivated her to challenge Western perceptions of African design, and to boost international...

August 15, 2025

Q&A: How KWA draws on Batswana traditions to create modern talismans

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Q&A: How KWA draws on Batswana traditions to create modern talismans

Afrocentrism lies at the heart of KWA’s design philosophy. The jewellery brand was founded to honour the culture and traditions of the Batswana people, using materials like cowrie shells and indigenous beads and handcrafting every piece in Botswana. Its founder,...

July 24, 2025

Q&A with Mozambican textile maker Wacy Zacarias

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Q&A with Mozambican textile maker Wacy Zacarias

For Mozambican designer, healer, and storyteller Wacy Zacarias, textiles are more than materials: they’re tools for healing, remembering, and regenerating. “I don’t just design with aesthetics in mind,” she says. “I design with purpose, ritual, and relationship.” Sustainability is woven...

July 2, 2025

Q&A: How Up-Fuse repurposes waste from Cairo’s Garbage City

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Q&A: How Up-Fuse repurposes waste from Cairo’s Garbage City

May 12, 2025

Q&A with founders of new African luxury fashion rental platform R’Frique

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Q&A with founders of new African luxury fashion rental platform R’Frique

Luxury redefined: R’Frique is making high-end African fashion more accessible and sustainable—one rental at a time. In this Q&A, founders Ceejay Ndlovu and Lebi Barfour-Osei share how their platform champions slow fashion, celebrates African design, and challenges the norms of...

May 6, 2025

Q&A: Kenyan designer Jamie Kimani uses fashion to foster pride and self-expression

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Q&A: Kenyan designer Jamie Kimani uses fashion to foster pride and self-expression

Jamie Kimani is the founder and creative director of Sevaria, a Nairobi-based brand that includes upcycled and deadstock materials to produce genderfluid pieces. His collections feature made-to-order or limited edition garments, finding inspiration from African cultures and religions. “We’re keen...

March 26, 2025

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How a design duo created their made-in-Nigeria fashion brand This is US

A husband-and-wife design duo were inspired by a chair. A simple, curved wooden design with red upholstery fabric that survived decades in Osione Itegboje’s family home was formative to their Nigerian brand This is Us. What is unique about this...

March 26, 2025

Q&A: Shelley Mokoena of Connade redefines minimalism

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Q&A: Shelley Mokoena of Connade redefines minimalism

March 20, 2025

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Ella Buter has created a much-loved fashion brand with enduring appeal

In an industry dominated by fleeting trends and fast fashion, Ella Buter has carved out a space where timeless design, inclusivity, and thoughtful craftsmanship take centre stage. Her approach—slow, deliberate, and deeply personal—led to the creation of Superella, a brand...

March 10, 2025

Q&A: Hamaji is a love letter to handcraft and heritage

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Q&A: Hamaji is a love letter to handcraft and heritage

Having grown up in Nairobi with a conservationist father and a botanist mother, Louise Sommerlatte has always had an appreciation for the beauty of the natural world. She founded her brand Hamaji − named after the Swahili word for ‘nomadic’ −...

March 6, 2025

Explainer: Cost per wear and why your ‘cheap’ clothing is actually expensive

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Explainer: Cost per wear and why your ‘cheap’ clothing is actually expensive

Fast fashion tricks us into thinking clothes are cheap – but if they fall apart after a few wears, they actually cost us more over time. Enter cost per wear (CPW). This is a simple way to rethink clothing value...

March 5, 2025

What are the origins of the Asante’s famous kente cloth?

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What are the origins of the Asante’s famous kente cloth?

Kente is a prestigious royal cloth of Ghana’s Asante people, part of their historical and cultural heritage. But there’s a debate about where it originated: the Bonwire community or the Adanwomase community in the Ashanti Region. The Conversation Africa spoke...

March 4, 2025

There is soft power in contemporary textile art

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There is soft power in contemporary textile art

Every time I visit the Investec Cape Town Art Fair, I make it my mission to seek out the textile art. In earlier years I had to hunt for these pieces, most of which were woven. More recently, however, I’ve...

March 3, 2025

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Africa Textile Talks Day 1: Circular solutions for South Africa’s textile industry

Explore Threads of Renewal

The natural evolution of Industrie Africa

Q&A: How KWA draws on Batswana traditions to create modern talismans

Q&A with Mozambican textile maker Wacy Zacarias

Q&A: How Up-Fuse repurposes waste from Cairo’s Garbage City

Q&A with founders of new African luxury fashion rental platform R’Frique

Q&A: Kenyan designer Jamie Kimani uses fashion to foster pride and self-expression

How a design duo created their made-in-Nigeria fashion brand This is US

Q&A: Shelley Mokoena of Connade redefines minimalism

Ella Buter has created a much-loved fashion brand with enduring appeal

Q&A: Hamaji is a love letter to handcraft and heritage

Explainer: Cost per wear and why your ‘cheap’ clothing is actually expensive

What are the origins of the Asante’s famous kente cloth?

There is soft power in contemporary textile art

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