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Twyg is a registered non-profit organization that serves as a leading source of inspiration for sustainable and fair living in South Africa. With less than a decade left to alter our habits and combat increasing temperatures, we are dedicated to motivating change through engaging content, projects, events, and campaigns. Our vibrant brand aims to expand our understanding and reach, enabling us to assist even more individuals in making positive lifestyle choices.

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After Library of wearable narratives

1 month ago | twyg.co.za | Ufrieda Ho

An art writer and art history educator’s unique clothing library, the After Library, is a way to access histories and narratives – even the difficult ones – and understand why the wearer is part of the story too. Could your clothes become a catalogue of your life? A library of sort as it faces outwards to the many worlds you engage with on the one hand, and on the other, takes on an imprint of you, as it lies close to your skin.
Book reviews: Earth Day advice on how to lighten your footprint

1 month ago | twyg.co.za | Jackie May

Figuring out how to lighten your footprint and reduce your carbon emissions is overwhelming. Firstly, it feels too hard − we live in complex and intersecting social, economic and political systems that have evolved over a very long time. Secondly, we are regularly sent doomsday messages telling us that our lifestyles are contributing to catastrophic climate chaos. These messages leave us feeling paralysed.
Explainer: What the global tariff war means (for fashion)

1 month ago | twyg.co.za | Jackie May

Everyone is in a state of shock at the trade war that has broken out after the US introduced new tariffs to penalise countries that export more goods and services to the US than they import from the US. It’s been a week of chaos in the markets and deep uncertainty about how the globalised, complex fashion system will respond. Lets unpack the basics. What are tariffs? Tariffs are taxes charged on goods bought from other countries.
Explainer: Your clothes contain more plastic than you think

2 months ago | twyg.co.za | Jackie May

For every 5 items repaired, 4 replace a new purchase. That means fewer clothes in landfills and fewer sad, abandoned T-shirts. Learn why mending is the ultimate zero-waste power move – and how a few small stitches can make a big impact!Is mending worth the time? Fast fashion makes new clothes so cheap that repairs often don’t feel worth it. Why spend 10 minutes sewing on a button when buying new is so cheap? But mending is worth it – because the cost of clothing goes far beyond the price tag.
Stephanie Bentum brings back fashion as an art form

2 months ago | twyg.co.za | Stella Hertantyo

Much like unravelling a woolen jersey, it’s hard to say where creativity begins and ends. For Stephanie Bentum, the textile designer and maker behind some of South Africa’s most revered sustainable fashion collections, the origins of her creative practice can be unravelled by looking at three distinct threads – a pair of felt slippers, a deep respect for nature, and a specific love for classic Greek dance. Stephanie’s studio is in Somerset West, Cape Town.
Conscious capsules are Mother of Gao’s slow fashion statement

2 months ago | twyg.co.za | Stella Hertantyo

Fast fashion teaches that creativity requires abundance. You have to have more to do more—more clothing, more trends, more newness. Refreshingly, South African slow fashion designer, Katlego Mokwana, began her brand to remind us that this is simply not true. “Creativity can thrive, even within boundaries,” she says. Based in the Vaal Triangle, Katlego’s brand, Mother of Gao, prides itself on creating capsule collections. The brand focuses on designing a few versatile pieces, made well.
Now is not the time to go "back to plastics"

Feb 17, 2025 | twyg.co.za | Jackie May

Plastics resource extraction, production, and use are out of control. This is what a group of renowned scientists have declared. Plastics are driving climate change, polluting our environment and entering our bloodstreams and brains. For these reasons – and more – the United States’ political antics are troubling. Eye-wateringly bad decisions are being made at a time when policy is required to assist a rapid and just transition to sustainable living.
Good Good Good takes Mekeka Designs barkcloth to Paris Fashion Week

Feb 10, 2025 | twyg.co.za | Jackie May

At the Africa Textile Talks in August 2024, Ugandan textile experts Josephine Mukasa and Pamela Kyagera presented barkcloth—an indigenous and renewable Ugandan textile—to an audience of 200 in Cape Town.
Green your fashion with GOTS

Jan 23, 2025 | twyg.co.za | Jackie May

In an ideal world, all fashion and textiles should have positive impacts on people and planet. The production of fibres and fabrics should not harm soil health, water, biodiversity, and people. Instead, the reality is that textile production continues to drive climate change, pollute the environment, and harm people. There is an increase in fossil-based synthetic fabrics while the prevalence of preferred fibres – organic, regenerative and recycled – remains low. What will it take to turn this tide?
44 Stanley is a beloved hub for conscious shopping

Jan 22, 2025 | twyg.co.za | Nobanzi Sokhuthu

A little more than two decades ago a collection of scruffy 1930s light industrial buildings in Johannesburg were converted into a creative and business hub. When Brian Green founded 44 Stanley in 2003, the focus was on providing easily accessible, local products and supporting small business vendors. The hub has surpassed expectations and developed into a must-visit destination with carefully curated local and ethical brands, galleries, design studios, and eateries.