How do we proceed when the future is so hard to predict?
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Feeling uncertain? Be Curious
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Making Friday: #myapartmentsafari Challenge
Let’s go on safari… while we’re stuck inside our homes.
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Small Kindnesses
Small Kindnesses
By Danusha Laméris
I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle,
people pull in their legs to let you by.
And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag,
someone else will help you pick them up.
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Hello from NYNOW
Hello from New York City, where Pearl and I are finishing up 5 days of showing Skinny laMinx at the NYNOW trade show. While it has been chilly, and the days have been long, it’s been a seriously good day every day, not just because we’re writing orders and getting to meet longtime Skinny fans …
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Meet Barbara Pettignano
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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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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