Occasionally, I take a photo that I feel really pleased with, and if I’m honest, the reason I’m happy with it is because it feels like a photo that I might ‘like’ on Instagram. Is that a funny thing to say? It’s not news to anyone that imitation (very different from coyping) is very a …
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Instagram’s Treasure Hunters
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How to Look Better – tips for seeing treasures every day
9 Tips for seeing beauty and magic in your everyday life.
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On my bookshelf
Yes, yes, this is a shameless punt of a book featuring my Bowls print on the cover, but if you want to know who is currently designing the most interesting fabric, and how they do it, get your hands on Modern Fabric, by Abby Gilchrist and Amelia Poole, published at the end of 2020. Click …
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In Memoriam: Yanni Vosloo
🖤This image is a version in black of one of the designs I made for the Skinny laMinx collab with MrPrice Home in 2017, in memoriam to Yanni Vosloo, the Mr Price group’s merchandise director for 19 years, who succumbed to Covid19 this week.🖤 When Yanni contacted me in 2016, proposing a collab with Skinny …
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The PROMENADE lifestyle collection
When you take 3 midcentury architectural facades on the Sea Point Promenade, add a pinch of admiration, 3 dollops of attention, a few choice collaborations, what do you end up with? The PROMENADE lifestyle collection. This collection pays homage to the large-scale public murals at Fortuna and Bonne Esperance apartments, and on the Beach Road …
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Collaboration: Wren x Skinny laMinx
In this design collaboration, carefree prints & colours from Skinny laMinx & the innovative stitched paper accessories from WREN meet to tell a bright & optimistic story evoking the mood of a breezy Summer stroll along the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town. WREN specialises in the innovative use of stitched paper to create personal …
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Making Friday : On the Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a passing parade that’s one of the enduring pleasures of Cape Town life. It also has some …
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Team Skinny laMinx 2.0
Meet our sleek new post-lockdown team!
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Modern Fabric
Look at what arrived in the post… with our Bowls print on the cover! I’m thrilled to bits that Skinny laMinx has been included as one of the 25 textile designers in this book by Abby Gilchrist and Amelia Poole, published by Princeton Architectural Press. What a thrill to share pages with heavyweights like @kaffefassettstudio, …
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