If you’ve been following blogs for a while, you must have come across Bloesem – the beautiful design blog which Irene Hoofs has been writing for the last 10 years (we both started blogging in 2006!). Over time, Irene has evolved Bloesem, rebranding as BloesemDesign, adding BloesemKids, and now she’s even started a magazine… on paper! It’s called Koel, and …
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Making Friday: Macrame
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Friends & Neighbours: BOFRED
Although Bofred was only started in 2014, their beautiful furniture, lights and other designs have been spotted all over local interiors mags. I liked what they’re doing so much that I approached them to include one of their furniture pieces in the BRISE SOLEIL Lookbook. Owners Carla Erasmus and Christa Botha had two of their …
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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: The New Modernist
For our 2016 Lookbook, I had a brainwave to collaborate with local furniture designers and manufacturers, presenting one of their signature pieces in our new BRISE SOLEIL collection. I approached Emma de Crespigny of The New Modernist, who has recently opened the doors to a beautiful new shop in the BoKaap. After looking at a number of …
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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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Friends & Neighbours: Sindiso Khumalo
I first met Durban-born, London-based fashion designer Sindiso Khumalo in 2015, when she was (rather impressively) one of the speakers at the Design Indaba Conference. She was such a friendly, energetic person, I immediately wanted to be her friend, so we’ve been staying in touch on Instagram while she’s been back in London, but she’s often in Cape …
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Friends & Neighbours: Meet Jing Du
We first met Cape Town sewing whiz Jing Du after she posted the gorgeous coat on Instagram made with our Palmetto print. Since then, we’ve been following her Insta feed closely, and checked out her blog too, and then we had the bright idea to send her a couple of packs of our DIY Squares to see …
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Friends & Neighbours: Wild Olive African Artisans
I first came across Wild Olive early in 2015, while getting a coffee at Jason Bakery, half a block from the Skinny laMinx store. This dramatic, black and white-painted building was a new sight in the neighbourhood, and I was intrigued. And since having met the creative mind behind this neighborhood Apothecary (thanks to her neighbourly side-project, the …
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Friends & Neighbours: The South is Blooming
Today’s edition of our monthly Friends and Neighbours blog series is an interview with our European distributor, Marian Counihan of The South is Blooming. Marian has just returned from OntwerpSalon in Utrecht, where she was showing her selection of all the things from Southern Africa with a cheeky Afro pop aesthetic. We’re thrilled that Skinny laMinx is included …
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