I love this quote from Dan Saks of Saks Corner, who we collaborated with when putting together the BRISE SOLEIL Lookbook. Our businesses have been growing side-by-side over the past few years, and I’ve always loved Dan’s sweetly quizzical air that also comes across in the things he makes and sells at Saks Corner. I dropped in at …
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Friends & Neighbours: Saks Corner
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Friends & Neighbours: The New Modernist
For our 2016 Lookbook, I had a brainwave to collaborate with local furniture designers and manufacturers, presenting one of their signature pieces in our new BRISE SOLEIL collection. I approached Emma de Crespigny of The New Modernist, who has recently opened the doors to a beautiful new shop in the BoKaap. After looking at a number of …
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Friends & Neighbours: LIM
I moved to Cape Town in 1996, and the LIM store on Kloof Street has always been a fixture in my neighbourhood. It took me a few years before I felt sophisticated enough to go inside, but these days I’m SO sophisticated, I’m in there all the time 😉 When putting together our 2016 LookBook for …
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Alberta Ferretti and Skinny laMinx
If you’ve been following Skinny laMinx for a bit, you’ll know my Tall Pincushion motif, which I first made as a papercut way back in 2008, and still sell as a fabric print today. If you love that design, you’ll love what top Italian designer, Alberta Ferretti has done with it, as part of her #AFFW16 collection!
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Around the Block
Around the Block
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Collaboration with LASSO
This is something we’ve been keeping under our hat for a while, so we’re very excited to be able to reveal our collaboration with French-based brand LASSO Shoes, which launched at Maison et Objet in Paris in September. Meet the ingenious flat-pack, self-assembly LASSO shoe: I met Gaspard, the designer for LASSO last year, while he was …
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Spoons again
Josh Vogel makes spoons. Lots and lots of beautiful carved wooden spoons, and in his new book, The Artful Wooden Spoon, the former architect and founder of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. shows us what he does… as well as how you can do it too. It looks like a gorgeous book, and reminds me of when …
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Making Friday: CMYK lino #01
The last workshop I did at Warren Editions was way back in 2011. I loved it so much, so it is unfathomable why it took me so long to sign up for another? Ah well, regrets at lost opportunities aside, I was happy to spend my Saturday at Warren Editions – which has expanded significantly since my …
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Making Friday: Meet Us +
It’s an unusual Making Friday post this week, as it’s not something I made, but rather something I watched being made in the studio. Over the weeks leading up to the launch of the Diggi Dot fabric collection, you’ll have spotted our little series of teaser videos on Instagram, and the longer video about the collection, too. They …
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