We’re all over the world this week! Heather is in New York City doing the NYNOW trade show , and Donna is in Frankfurt with our European distributor, Barbara Pettignano, where they are doing the Ambiente Trade Show. Barbara is so great to work with, not least because she speaks 4 languages fluently, which means …
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Meet Barbara Pettignano
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Liyabona Library See Saw Do
We spent a special Saturday morning at Holy Cross Convent in Distric 6, attending the joyful opening of Liyabona library. We donated fabric, which the genius See Saw Do put to brilliant use as part of this beautiful, safe, well-stocked library, all orchestrated and fundraised by the Otto Foundation. How inspiring to see a headmistress …
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Gluten Morgen! A collaboration with Jason Bakery
When we opened our shop in 2011, Bree Street was not exactly the beating heart of the Cape Town scene, although it was a great place for car upholstery cleaning and spark plugs. Actually, the only real reason I signed the store lease was that my favourite coffee shop was half a block away. Eight …
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Bums on seats
When Skinny laMinx opened on Bree Street in 2011, Jason Bakery was still a hole- in-the-wall coffee shop. They soon expanded, opening their larger premises in the space they currently occupy on the corner of Bloem & Bree. (Don’t know where that is? Just look out for the Doughssant queues on a Saturday morning. They’re …
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PICHULIK x Skinny laMinx
We’re excited to announce a textile collaboration with fashion and jewellery brand Pichulik, and are looking forward to sharing the abundance with you! Come and celebrate the launch of PLENTY, the Pichulik Spring Summer 2020 collection, at the Skinny laMinx shop on Saturday 26 October from 12-2pm. There will be aperitifs, garments and jewellery from …
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PLENTY behind the scenes
Last week, we posted about the behind-the-scenes collaboration conversation between Kat Pichulik and us as we figured out how to come up with a fabric design for the Pichulik SS20 range. We’re almost ready for the big reveal on 26 October, but here’s what the studio working board is looking like right now! See the …
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Making Friday: From the studio walls
As you know, my Making Friday studio practice is all about making, making, making, with no real plan or expectation or need in mind. I find it so important to simply generate work that’s liberated from all the necessary work restrictions of cost and production possibility etc that product development requires. Here’s some of the …
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Print / Repeat / Retreat – a weekend workshop escape
Take some time out from your To Do list, and join Heather on a weekend workshop break at Arumvale Country Retreat in the beautiful Swellendam countryside. On the workshop, you’ll get hands-on insights into how pattern is created, & you’ll also learn how to carve & print your own designs onto paper & textile. In …
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Dimensional wallpaper
Three years ago, we collaborated with California ceramics company Heath Ceramics on the Dimensional textile range, inspired by their Dimensional tile range. Read all about that collaboration here. Since then, this range has been sold exclusively at Heath Ceramics stores in San Francisco and LA, and in the Skinny laMinx shop too. This week, however, …
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