12 Size-inclusive slow fashion brands leading change in South Africa
Twyg's listicle highlighting African, size-inclusive slow fashion brands
Tag: sustainable fashion
Oscars 2026: The red-carpet details we loved most
From Amazonian-grown fibres to politically charged brooches and intricate handiwork, here are the fashion details that stood out from the glitter.
Second skin
A study of texture, movement and form, this editorial explores fashion as architecture
Heirs of Greatness: a new future for African craft and fashion
In Casablanca, Orun revealed a bold vision for Africa’s creative industries shifting from spectacle and visibility to systems, ownership and long-term cultural and economic power.
Finalists announced for the 2025 Twyg Sustainable Fashion Awards
Meet the 2025 finalists
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.
When ‘sustainable’ fashion backfires on the environment
How innovations in the circular economy can actually potentially wiping out any environmental gains.
The world according to Bubu Ogisi
What made IAMISIGO the 'breakout brand of Copenhagen Fashion Week'
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 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.
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...
What fashion represents at the Bonn Climate Change Conference
Most people with access to technology are aware of the climate crisis. But how governments and adjacent organisations respond to the crisis remains elusive to many. Climate change policy is typically framed in relation to future generations or faraway places like...
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...
The Story of Ambani Fish Leather
Next-generation leather has been all the rage in the last 20 years. Leather has always been a no-brainer material in human societies, maximising what we can get out of the animals we hunt and farm. However, industrialisation and mass manufacturing...