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Meet the designer who is creating a green fashion movement in Zambia

Softly spoken during most of our conversation, Betty Chilonde becomes animated when the topic turns to circularity and the potential of fashion in Zambia. Betty is not only a designer. She is also an educator, farmer and activist quietly shaping...

February 28, 2021

Zambian designer Betty Chilonde makes clothes in harmony with nature

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Zambian designer Betty Chilonde makes clothes in harmony with nature

For a fashion project that I did in collaboration with Zambian designer Betty Chilonde, she designed three looks that exhibit how she responds to her dream of living in harmony with nature and to critical questions. Why am I a...

February 27, 2021

Fabric of change: Mozambican designer Wacy Zacarias fixes textiles with healing plants

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Fabric of change: Mozambican designer Wacy Zacarias fixes textiles with healing plants

When Mozambican designer Wacy Zacarias realised that most African textiles were not really African but imports from Holland and China, she shifted her focus from fashion design to reclaiming textiles for something more meaningful. “The tradition of African textiles,” she...

February 21, 2021

Vanessa Nsona is designing a circular future for Malawi

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Vanessa Nsona is designing a circular future for Malawi

Vanessa Nsona collects waste, tinkers and toys, prototypes and makes new products. Circular thinking is central to her work in Malawi. “I have always thought of waste as treasure,” she says. I spent a day with Vanessa, visiting her workshop,...

February 14, 2021

Moreblessings Moyo: A street vendor in Harare who does more with less

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Moreblessings Moyo: A street vendor in Harare who does more with less

Makadikko, avandi Moreblessings Moyo. Mama Moreblessings is my new comic book character. Read her story here: Moreblessings Moreblessings works as a street vendor in Harare, Zimbabwe, hustling to make ends meet, while her husband does the same as an uber...

February 7, 2021

Beyond the Age of Waste: Meet the designers creating a circular future in Mauritius

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Beyond the Age of Waste: Meet the designers creating a circular future in Mauritius

Mahendra Gooroochurn lives on an island that Mark Twain supposedly compared to paradise on earth. Was Twain right? In Mauritius, people of diverse cultures live in harmony, near blossoming pink sugarcane, beautiful pearly-white beaches and indigenous forests. But all is...

January 30, 2021

How Joburg designer Matthew Edwards is innovating a circular materials future

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How Joburg designer Matthew Edwards is innovating a circular materials future

Designer Matthew Edwards holds a three-dimensional cube in the palm of his hand. It is small with smoothed-over jagged sides. The deep blue and white colours dance together as if swirling in a slab of marble or like the calico...

January 24, 2021

Six collaborations shaping circular design in Southern Africa

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Six collaborations shaping circular design in Southern Africa

Design Futures Africa presents six stories about design and the circular economy in Southern Africa. In the first story, published on Sunday 24 January, Stefanie Jason speaks to South African industrial designer, Matthew Edwards, about his transformation of Johannesburg’s waste...

January 24, 2021

Q&A: House of Canvex turns recycled plastic bottles into interior textiles

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Q&A: House of Canvex turns recycled plastic bottles into interior textiles

House of Canvex is a six-year-old interior textiles business based in Durban, South Africa with an ethos developed around creating quality products “without sacrificing local connection and environment”. They are doing this with four revolutionary rPET (recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate) base...

January 21, 2021

Part Two: Preferred South African plant fibre textiles

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Part Two: Preferred South African plant fibre textiles

This is *part two in our series on preferred textiles available in South Africa and where to find them. It’s a non-exhaustive list of natural plant fibres like cotton, linen hemp, and rPET, and includes their sourcing and processing practices,...

January 11, 2021

Q&A: At Mors Design old tyre tubes are turned into bags

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Q&A: At Mors Design old tyre tubes are turned into bags

In 2015, Cape Town-based Raihana Govender co-founded Mors Design, an up-cycle initiative specialising in manufacturing bags made from recycled tyre tubes. When she met a designer who had made a bag out of old tyre tubing, she says, “I was...

December 18, 2020

Download the Twyg zine for your summer holiday reading

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Download the Twyg zine for your summer holiday reading

In celebration of the Twyg Awards winners and finalists, we’ve curated a zine filled with images and stories about our winners and finalists. Take your time to read it – there is no rush. You will also find Twyg’s Manifesto...

December 15, 2020

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Q&A: Shamyra Moodley sees the future of sustainable fashion as DIY-fashion-meets-art

Former accountant turned designer Shamyra Moodley recently participated in her first fashion show. Selected as one of the six designers to join African Fashion International’s 2020 year-long Fastrack programme, Shamyra was tasked to create three new looks in three weeks...

November 27, 2020

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Q&A: Rebirth SA prioritises sustainable fashion in a post pandemic world

Recycling and upcycling denim from “deadstock” is on trend. We usually don’t promote trends because they encourage wasteful consumerism. But we remain dedicated fans of upcycling old and reusable garments. Producing virgin denim is a hot topic in the sustainability...

November 13, 2020

Press Release: Twyg Awards 2020 finalists announced

2020 Awards Fashion

Press Release: Twyg Awards 2020 finalists announced

Twyg is honoured to announce the finalists of the Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2020. The awards celebrate South African designers leading sustainable, ethical, circular and regenerative practices in the fashion industry. The designers are intentionally improving fashion’s relationship with nature...

October 27, 2020

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Meet the designer who is creating a green fashion movement in Zambia

Zambian designer Betty Chilonde makes clothes in harmony with nature

Fabric of change: Mozambican designer Wacy Zacarias fixes textiles with healing plants

Vanessa Nsona is designing a circular future for Malawi

Moreblessings Moyo: A street vendor in Harare who does more with less

Beyond the Age of Waste: Meet the designers creating a circular future in Mauritius

How Joburg designer Matthew Edwards is innovating a circular materials future

Six collaborations shaping circular design in Southern Africa

Q&A: House of Canvex turns recycled plastic bottles into interior textiles

Part Two: Preferred South African plant fibre textiles

Q&A: At Mors Design old tyre tubes are turned into bags

Download the Twyg zine for your summer holiday reading

Q&A: Shamyra Moodley sees the future of sustainable fashion as DIY-fashion-meets-art

Q&A: Rebirth SA prioritises sustainable fashion in a post pandemic world

Press Release: Twyg Awards 2020 finalists announced

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