Skinny has turned a corner. Quite literally in fact! The Skinny laMinx shop has closed, with the new studio entrance just around the corner at 16a Buiten Street. We’ve decided to make a strong shift, moving our focus to online only, so February 2022 was our last month as a brick-and-mortar store on Bree St, …
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We’ve gone Up, Up & Online!
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Celebrating 10 years on Bree Street
It was 10 years ago, round about now, that I found out that my old studio on Buitengraght Street was to be demolished. I had to find a new place to work in… fast! I found a greasy little scooter repair shop on Bree Street, signed the lease, and got cracking on opening the first …
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Team Skinny laMinx 2.0
Meet our sleek new post-lockdown team!
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Making Friday: Dots agains doomscrolling
I really don’t like the fact that I find myself drawn towards my phone all the time, but I think it’s the crazy times we live in. There’s the constant temptation to check out what new disaster has befallen the world… or maybe a puppy has made best friends with a duck! To help me …
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Best Things: Stripes
Do you know about the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon? It’s that thing where you notice something once – a new word, an idea, a colour – and then it seems you just can’t avoid it. It’s everywhere. But is it really everywhere, or have you just become attuned to it? I’ve been feeling that way about stripes. …
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Team Skinny laMinx 2020
These are the faces and hands behind the name Skinny laMinx. We love what we do, and we LOVE that you love it to. xx Team Skinny laMinx.
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Monkeys world tour!
Travelling in the mind really has become a theme of the Skinny laMinx lockdown period. Just look at the adventures one of our parcels destined for Australia took… in the mind of one of our favourite Aussie customer, Rebecca Her FedEx package was among the last to leave Cape Town on the day before lockdown, …
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Colour Yum: Persimmon and Sand
I know, I know, they say it’s all about blue this year, but we’ve started the year hot to trot with our new favourite colour combo, Sand and Persimmon. While they may not make good ingredients for a smoothie, they do make for a yummy colour palette, in both fashion and interiors. Clockwise above : Burda magazine ++ Paloma Wool ++ Nanamica ++ Verloop x Peanuts …
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Making Friday: Print your own chocolate
We’ve been getting crafty in the shop on Thursday evenings, staying open til 8pm throughout December … and on the first First Thursday of January 2020 too. Yup, join us in the store on Late Night Shopping Thursdays throughout December, and use my handcarved lino stamps to print your own wrappers for bean-to-bar Honest Chocolate. I’ve been having so …
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