When you take 3 midcentury facades on the Sea Point Promenade, add a pinch of admiration, 3 dollops of attention, a few choice collaborations, what do you end up with? The PROMENADE lifestyle collection, of course! PROMENADE pays homage to three midcentury architectural facades along the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town, and aims to …
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The PROMENADE lifestyle collection
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Collaboration: Wren x Skinny laMinx
In this design collaboration, carefree prints & colours from Skinny laMinx & the innovative stitched paper accessories from WREN meet to tell a bright & optimistic story evoking the mood of a breezy Summer stroll along the Sea Point Promenade in Cape Town. WREN specialises in the innovative use of stitched paper to create personal …
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Winking is the new smiling
I’m winking because you can’t see me smiling under my mask (and they say that #winkingisthenewsmiling in these crazy times). The reason I’m smiling is that I’m thrilled to have been asked, along with 3 other SA designers, to design a set of four masks for African Smiles Masks, to be sold on Takealot.com to …
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Collaboration with VISI
It took me a while to slow down and look properly at the mid-century mosaic mural on the public bathrooms on the Sea Point Promenade (read more here), but I’m so glad I did, because it’s become part of my life in ways I might not have ever considered. For instance, I was inspired to …
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Slowing down on the Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk, and when the exercise ban lifted a few weeks ago, it became clear that I’m no exception there. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a …
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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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PLENTY behind the scenes
Last week, we posted about the behind-the-scenes collaboration conversation between Kat Pichulik and us as we figured out how to come up with a fabric design for the Pichulik SS20 range. We’re almost ready for the big reveal on 26 October, but here’s what the studio working board is looking like right now! See the …
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A Skinny Doughssant?
F I R S T L Y. . . do you know about the unholy union of croissant X doughnut, known as a Doughssant? It’s the terrifyingly decadent brainchild of our friends & neighbours, Jason Bakery, whose weekly inventiveness (there’s a new doughssant EVERY SATURDAY!) results in winding queues down Bree Street, as salivating Capetonians queue …
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Fashion Collaboration with King Louie
In 2016, while visiting Europe to promote our Brise Soleil range, I first came across Dutch fashion brand King Louie in a shop in Paris, and fell in love with their feminine vintage styling. All their prints and cuts just felt like exactly the vintage clothes I was always hoping to find, but never did. Little …
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