I took this photo when promoting our 2021 calendar, choosing titles from my bookshelf that I thought made sense together. Then, as I was packing them away, I thought perhaps some of you would be interested to know more about them. So here’s a bit more, with links for each. Yes, yes, this is a …
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On my bookshelf
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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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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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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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Lifestyling
There’s been so much change and loss in the print magazine industry during this time of Covid, so it’s heartening to hear from JP de la Chaumette who used this time to launch a brand new online magazine, called Lifestyling.co.za. I asked JP to tell us more about the origins, plans and dreams for this …
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Making Friday: Papercutting at the Norval
So many Skinny laMinx designs are based on papercuts. Pincushion, Flowerfields, Rough Cuts, Stig – they all started with a sketch, some paper and a sharp little knife. I haven’t been doing much paper cutting lately though, and I really miss it, so when I was invited to spend Garden Day 2020 in the Sculpture …
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The original Skinny laMinx
October is a very special month, because it’s the birthday month of the original Skinny laMinx! I named my biz after our little Siamese cat called Monkey in the pic above, and although she’s no longer with us (after 18 years!) she still makes us smile. To celebrate Monkey’s birthday month, our fans have been …
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My Home is my Horst
It’s always so exciting to see what stylish people do with Skinny laMinx in their homes, especially when they have a super-strong look of their own. German interiors stylist and author Julia Ballmaier has totally wowed us with the way she’s integrated some of our most colourful pillows into her spectacular home, where she lives …
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Slowing down on the Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk, and when the exercise ban lifted a few weeks ago, it became clear that I’m no exception there. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a …
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