Of course, the Skinny laMinx shop never sleeps (well, the online one, anyway), and our fab team team keeps on keeping on, but I’m a bit out of circulation right now, as far as blogging, Instagramming and whatnot is concerned, as I’m spending most of my time styling and shooting images for our new fabrics …
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I’m scarce
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Flowering palette
One of the succulents on my rooftop studio garden started flowering this week. It’s not my usual set of colours, but I kind of love this palette of silvery greys and orange-y pinks. My winter wardrobe always tends towards the greys and blacks, and I’m kind of dreading heading in that direction this year, and …
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OH Tours: House Stekhoven
Last evening, I went on the next in the series of the Open House Thursdays series of architecture tours organised by OH Architecture, this time in Newlands. (If you missed last month’s tour of Gawie and Gwen Fagan’s Camp’s Bay home, click here). I’ve actually visited this home, just off Kildare Rd before, on the …
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Made-to-order wallpaper – Skinny laMinx for Robin Sprong
I’m so happy to finally announce the very exciting news we’ve been keeping under our hats for an absolute age: Wallpaper! Wallpaper has been on our to-do list for ages, and in fact, some of the Skinny laMinx designs started out as hand-cut wall stickers before ever appearing on fabrics (evidence right here). So it’s …
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Apartamento
This year, we’ve been enjoying bringing a selection of otherwise-hard-to-find magazines in to sell in our shop on Bree Street. So far, we’ve had Sweet Paul magazine, Kinfolk , Dutch magazine FLOW, and now we have Apartamento in store. Apartamento is described as an “interiors magazine dedicated to interior space and the people who live in it”, but …
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WDC2014 – yellow all over
I’m spotting more and more World Design Capital 2014 yellow all over Cape Town these days. There’s a slew of yellow shop doors all over the show, and have you seen how Stefan Antoni architects has clad the entire building on Hope Street in yellow? Here are a couple more: Love this gorgeous yellow window …
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Ducking below the parapet
There is the most amazing bunch of people working at Skinny laMinx, making calculations, keeping records, cutting, stitching, ordering, stockchecking, quality checking, packing, customer relations, and then there’s a shop to run too. Everyone is working at full capacity every minute of every working day to make sure that the things we produce are of …
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One way to choose an outfit…
Messing around in my studio at the end of Monday afternoon, I made a drawing of a lady I’d spotted at the supermarket earlier, then cut away her dress, just for fun. And look at what happened next… OMG, she’s wearing the same outfit as I am! Chilly minimalism, anyone? At the supermarket, there’s plenty …
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Everybody loves a rainbow