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.
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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.
Finalists announced for the 2025 Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards
Meet the 2025 finalists
Mohair’s soft landing in the Cape
With this fashion editorial, we trace the surprising origin story of an illustrious South African fibre industry
Q&A: The curiosity and chemistry behind *Apartment
We chat with Leigh-Anne Drakes ahead of the launch of *Apartment's new scent
Explainer: South African minister meets Shein
Gayton McKenzie is defending his decision to meet with SHEIN representatives
Sustainable marketing: Luxury marketing, the Babylon way
Abundance and generosity – Kerri-Ann Stanton explores the secret to the success of Babylonstoren's marketing
Q&A: How Mahlobisa Shiburi weaves care into sustainable African fashion
Tandekile Mkize chats to Mahlobisa Shiburi, recent Villioti Fashion Institute graduate and the designer behind Carmen's Parys.
How six South Africans observe heritage, sustainably
We spoke to six South Africans about their heritage and how they celebrate it
When ‘sustainable’ fashion backfires on the environment
How innovations in the circular economy can actually potentially wiping out any environmental gains.
Q&A: Talking beauty with the brain behind SU Skincare
Find out more about SU Skincare's Sindisiwe Cele
Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards 2025
Are you implementing sustainable, circular and regenerative approaches to fashion design? Are you fostering ethical practices?
Africa Textile Talks Day 3: Thread with Care
Titled Thread with Care, the final day of the Africa Textile Talks 2025, took a deep dive into the culture of cloth, innovation, indigenous knowledge, industrialisation and decentralisation. Speakers from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa and Mozambique shared stories about...
Africa Textile Talks Day 2: Wool, nature and people
Passionate farmers and industry experts produce one of South Africa’s most valuable exports: wool. Annually the extended wool community meets at the WoolCycle networking event to discuss achievements, challenges and opportunities. This year Cape Wools SA invited Twyg to host...