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Q&A: Lucie Panis-Jones reminds us of the hands behind our textiles

Lucie Panis-Jones is a multifaceted textile designer, based in Cape Town, whose work includes artful mending and textured weaving. Growing up in many countries across the world – including Zimbabwe, the United States, France, Spain, and Belgium – gave Lucie...

June 10, 2022

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Slow fashion: saving the planet with style

Each time you drag a new item of clothing into a virtual shopping basket, you may be supporting an industry responsible for 10% of global CO₂ emissions – not to mention widespread social harm. Fast fashion, the industry trend which...

May 16, 2022

Fashion

Students showcase a week-long upcycling fashion project

For Fashion Revolution Week (18-24 April 2022), students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology paused their curriculum to create an upcycled fashion collection. They were grouped together in teams of 10 to 13 students and each team created two...

May 3, 2022

Fashion

A Time For New Dreams

In the lush Newlands Forest where dappled light leaves a dreamscape, we create versions of self and become all we wish to be through the transformative power of fashion. Soulful and transcendent, A Time For New Dreams reconnect us with...

April 22, 2022

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Get Hooked

Bev Nates has created a magical fashion editorial that is a tribute to her Russian grandmother, Lilly Levin, whom she adored. Bev remembers her granny sitting alongside a Russian teapot with countless clashing and brightly coloured yarns and a crochet...

April 5, 2022

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3 South African Shoe Brands Making Slow Fashion Strides

We love local! And, we especially love local brands who are combining style and slow fashion to bring us garments and footwear that allow us to express ourselves without causing harm to the planet nor people. One part of slow...

March 7, 2022

6 Bag brands creating quality items that last

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6 Bag brands creating quality items that last

For this selection of bags, we highlight six local brands producing quality, trans-seasonal leather handbags. According to each brand, the leather* is locally and ethically sourced. PROJECT DYAD Cape Town-based Project Dyad was founded in 2016 by Vincent Urbain and...

August 30, 2021

Call for Nominations: Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2021

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Call for Nominations: Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2021

Designers are problem solvers, and right now, we urgently need problems solved. There has been a noticeable shift in how fashion thinks of itself with a realisation that its responsibility is far wider than making clothes. For this reason, we’re...

August 3, 2021

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Q&A: Why slow fashion enthusiast Stella Hertantyo loves clothes swaps

Ahead of our monthly swap shop we reached out to one of our favourite South African slow fashion enthusiasts, Stella Hertantyo to give us a low down on why she loves swapping clothes. When did you attend your first swapping...

June 18, 2021

Q&A: Asha : Eleven does good, inspiring stuff to inspire others to do the same

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Q&A: Asha : Eleven does good, inspiring stuff to inspire others to do the same

Olivia Kennaway founded Asha : Eleven in 2018. Ethics and sustainability are the driving force behind her Cape Town-based brand. Olivia, a mother of two, is on the Fashion Revolution South Africa team and works to reduce fashion’s negative impact...

May 14, 2021

“The Coutts Collection is a great honour to our family”

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“The Coutts Collection is a great honour to our family”

Nicholas Coutts and LVMH Prize 2021 finalist Lukhanyo Mdingi first met when they were fashion students at Cape Peninsula University of Technology and Design Academy of Fashion, respectively, and later they were not only friends but professional peers too. They...

May 3, 2021

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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

10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes

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10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes

For an entire year, I have not bought new clothes, driven by evidence of the harm the fast fashion industry does to the environment and the people who work in it. This was a big deal for me: I’ve always...

October 12, 2020

Model activist Liyanna B talks sustainability and influencer culture in 2020

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Model activist Liyanna B talks sustainability and influencer culture in 2020

Black and Brown folks have always been sustainable, it’s not a foreign concept, if anything it’s been a way of life from the beginning of time for many of us. This is what South African model and activist Nomfundo Liyanna...

July 3, 2020

Q&A with designer Tessa O’Halloran on rethinking plastic waste

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Q&A with designer Tessa O’Halloran on rethinking plastic waste

Exciting things are happening in a small studio in the Karoo where plasticity. re-imagines waste plastic. This bespoke upcycling company based in Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape was founded by Tessa O’Halloran, her mother Helen and her little sister Erin...

June 19, 2020

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Q&A: Lucie Panis-Jones reminds us of the hands behind our textiles

Slow fashion: saving the planet with style

Students showcase a week-long upcycling fashion project

A Time For New Dreams

Get Hooked

3 South African Shoe Brands Making Slow Fashion Strides

6 Bag brands creating quality items that last

Call for Nominations: Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2021

Q&A: Why slow fashion enthusiast Stella Hertantyo loves clothes swaps

Q&A: Asha : Eleven does good, inspiring stuff to inspire others to do the same

“The Coutts Collection is a great honour to our family”

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

10 things I’ve learned in my year of no new clothes

Model activist Liyanna B talks sustainability and influencer culture in 2020

Q&A with designer Tessa O’Halloran on rethinking plastic waste

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