For some reason (I’m completely to blame), there have been two big gaps in the Skinny laMinx colour range. The one gap will always remain, because it is purple and I am allergic to purple. The other gap is a bit mystifying, because it’s a blue gap, and I do rather like blue. But let’s …
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Colour Book: Signal & Steel
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Colour Book: Liquorice Mint
That’s a photo of my sitting room, you know! I took while preparing the Liquorice Mint colour board in our Colour Book, and liked it so much that I left it exactly the same after the shoot (give or take a picturesquely placed cat or two). I’m probably not allowed to have favourites, but you can …
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Colour Book 2015/16: Fruit Salad
One of my biggest jobs every year is styling and photographing our catalogues. This year, I really had a good time working on the Colour Book, where I created five distinct looks that showcase the Diggi Dot collection, and also shows how it integrates with the existing Skinny laMinx prints. It’s a LOT of work, …
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Best Things #07
Just one Best Thing this week, because it follows on so well from the recent Fashion Revolution movement, which asked us to consider the question “Who Made My Clothes?” The video is fairly long, but certainly worth the time, and has stayed with me ever since I watched it last week.
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Best Things #06: Colour Yum
Woven bamboo chairs by W&Q …………………………………………… Photos of food gradients by Brittany Wright. …………………………………………… Delightful stop motion video for Samsung by Vallee duHamel …………………………………………… Photos of le Corbusier’s Convent of la Tourette by Samuel Ludwig. …………………………………………… The Moth Gallery Flickr group. This pic is by Gail Hampshire. …………………………………………… Sonia deLaunay has an exhibition on at the Tate …
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Best Things #05
A few weeks ago, while Abby Glassenberg were having our podcast chat, I mentioned how, although I really love Instagram, I worry a little about how one can self-select an Insta feed to only display pics within an existing aesthetic, and in the end all that yummy visual ‘liking’ ends up as a same-same-same unchallenging, boring mush. So in this week’s …
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Best Things 04: Stripes
It must be the late summer light that has had me taking lots of stripy photos lately. Stripes are great and graphic and strong, but with a bit of colour, they’re a LOT more fun. I thought I’d look around the web for stripes for this week’s Best Things post. Clockwise, from Left: + Kat & Roger’s …
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Best Things #03
Since starting to send weekly newsletters (sign up here, if you haven’t yet), I’ve become a big fan of this way of getting info and staying in touch, and have been signing up for newsletters all over the place. I thought that today’s Best Things post could include some of the things I’ve come across via …
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Best Things #02
We’ve just bought the studio apartment next door to ours, with the intention of bashing through to expand our 80 sq/m 2 bedroom flat into a roomy open planned 120 m/sq space. This is why I haven’t been doing much online this week, other than pin thrilling wide-open loft-style apartments to my I Could Live There …
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