You know Heath Ceramics, by now, right? We’ve been working together since they placed a first order in 2008, we’ve designed and produced staff aprons, tea towels and other custom designs for them, and last year I had a pop up shop in their LA store. We’re old friends! Lately, I’ve been using Heath’s Dimensional tile collection as …
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Making Friday: A Multi-dimensional relationship
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Chapel x Skinny laMinx
I went to high school at a Methodist girls’ school, where we went to chapel every morning, where we prayed for peace, goodness and beauty in the world. Now it seems that local bagmaker Chapel has answered those prayers, creating a marriage made in heaven between Skinny laMinx prints and their ever-popular backpack called The Rider. Snag yourself one of these limited edition …
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Friends & Neighbours: Saks Corner
I love this quote from Dan Saks of Saks Corner, who we collaborated with when putting together the BRISE SOLEIL Lookbook. Our businesses have been growing side-by-side over the past few years, and I’ve always loved Dan’s sweetly quizzical air that also comes across in the things he makes and sells at Saks Corner. I dropped in at …
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Friends & Neighbours: LIM
I moved to Cape Town in 1996, and the LIM store on Kloof Street has always been a fixture in my neighbourhood. It took me a few years before I felt sophisticated enough to go inside, but these days I’m SO sophisticated, I’m in there all the time 😉 When putting together our 2016 LookBook for …
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Collaboration with LASSO
This is something we’ve been keeping under our hat for a while, so we’re very excited to be able to reveal our collaboration with French-based brand LASSO Shoes, which launched at Maison et Objet in Paris in September. Meet the ingenious flat-pack, self-assembly LASSO shoe: I met Gaspard, the designer for LASSO last year, while he was …
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Spier Architectural Arts
I stepped into a very exciting world yesterday, when I paid a visit to the Spier Architectual Arts building on Commercial Street in the city. It’s a lovely old building, but there’s little to make you guess at the large-scale vision and projects being tackled, the skills being grown, and the sheer busy-ness going on …
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Cross Pollination: Take Care
2014 is the year that Cape Town has been named World Design Capital (did you see all the yellow in my shop window this month?). I’m hoping it will be a year where Cape Town’s design community comes together to support and encourage one another, while the Design world is focussed on our city. At Skinny laMinx, …
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