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.
Tag: South Africa
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
From indigenous knowledge and fibre innovation to decentralised manufacturing, the final day of Africa Textile Talks 2025 explores how care, culture and circular thinking are shaping the continent’s textile future.
Africa Textile Talks Day 2: Wool, nature and people
Exploring wool from farm to fibre, Day 2 of Africa Textile Talks 2025 highlights regeneration, traceability and the people shaping one of South Africa’s most valuable natural fibres
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.