I’m out of action for the rest of the week, as I’m off to the Design Indaba Conference (gonna see Stefan Sagmeister! Naoto Fukasawa! Thomas Heatherwick!). Follow me while I’m there on Instagram. I’m not promising anything, but last year I had lots of fun sketching the delegates, so keep an eye out in case inspiration …
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On a mini-sabbatical
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First Thursdays and yellow dots
Last week we put a big yellow dot on the front of our shop at 201 Bree Street, in an attempt to infect the city with enthusiasm for World Design Capital dottiness. Now we want to spread yellow dot fever even more! If you’re in Cape Town and don’t have a yellow dot in your life yet, …
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WDC2014 shop window
All week I’ve had pots of yellow paint out and yellow brushes drying, as I prepped for my brand new shop window, and today I put all the bits together. The yellow circle, of course, is to celebrate that Cape Town is this year’s World Design Capital. Looking forward to seeing what the year 2014 …
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Ho Ho Holiday!
Happy holidays, everyone, and thanks for all the support this year! The Skinny laMinx shop is mostly open over the festive season, with Saturday hours in the days after Boxing Day, resuming normal hours on 3 January. See you next year!
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Happy Shop Birthday
Arriving at the shop this morning, I suddenly realised the significance of the date: It’s exactly two years ago that we first opened the doors of the shop at 201 Bree Street. Happy Shop Birthday to us! xx To see an animation telling the story of Skinny laMinx, click here.
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Endless Thursdays
5 December is the first Thursday of the month, which means it’s First Thursdays in Cape Town! We’ll be open late this Thursday, along with heaps of other businesses in town (check out the lineup here), but on Bree St, we’re taking it a little further: we’ll be ushering in the Summer season by opening until …
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New in store: Kinfolk magazine
Just this very minute, we unpacked the box with the brand new issue of Kinfolk magazine, and appropriately enough, barely a week after my birthday, this is the Age Issue. Supplies are super-limited, so get to the Skinny laMinx store at 201 Bree St as soon as you can (or email Astrid to secure a …
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HAPPYTHANKS
Wednesday’s my birthday (hooray!), and Thursday is Thanksgiving in the US, so let’s roll it all together and say HAPPYTHANKS to everyone! Oh, and International customers, we have an online HAPPYTHANKS sale for you: On Wed 27 and Thurs 28 November, any purchase from the Skinny laMinx Etsy shop gets 25% off when you use …
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In the shop: On special this week
Good news for those of you starting to think about Christmas shopping: we’ve got a special offer on our Eep! bookbags, which are at 25% off for a limited period, while stocks last. Find them here in US$ Find them here in ZAR
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