The Paradise is Here fabric collection is pretty different from what I’ve designed for Skinny laMinx before, but in May, while I was hiding away at the ThinkTank, shooting our Lookbook 2014, I was very happy to find how well these crazy new prints integrate with the existing fabrics. The Lookbook is organised around five …
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Lookbook 2014
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Inspiration – Paradise is Here
After my visit to Tokyo last year, I felt my eyes were opened to was how important plants are to a city environment, and my thoughts about this ended up with the fabric collection we’re launching this evening, called Paradise is Here. Plants in a city – but maybe particularly in like Tokyo, which was …
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Pink, silver, grey
Winter has hit us, and while I’m not crazy about the chilly toes, I’m quite excited about all the opportunities for new clothes combinations. A little boy asked me about my favourite colour the other day, and I told him that I mostly like colours teamed up with others. (Poor kid – he picked the …
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OH Tours: Fagan Residence
On Thursday last week, Paul and I were lucky enough (along with 120 others) to get onto the OH tour of Gawie and Gwen Fagan’s iconic home. These are the photos I took. Gawie Fagan has been in private practice in Cape Town as an architect since 1964, and his buildings have contributed substantially to the …
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On the way in and on the way back
It’s great having a phone on my camera, as I can take pics of things I spot on my walk to the studio in the morning, and on the way home, too. Today’s batch: This morning (above): colours on a pole set in concreteoutside the garage on Kloof Street (to stop people parking on the …
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Out & About: Shapes I like
Who’d have guessed that the SABS building in Rosebank would have such interesting shapes and colours for me to snap? By the way, if you like the shapes and colours in this post, you might enjoy a new Pinterest board I started recently, called Shapes I Like.
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Resting Bones
I’m still kind of on what I’ve been calling ‘skeleton time’, which means that although I’m on holiday, I’m still available, occasionally popping into the studio and shop to do bits of work. But in between, I’ve mostly been staying home, going to yoga and taking naps. Over New Year’s, the shop closed, and we …
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Humans of New York
I caught the bus to The Book Lounge on Sunday, and spent a happy hour browsing. One book that held my attention for quite a bit was called Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton. It’s a photographic book that does what it says on the cover: photographs of all types and shapes of human (and …
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Joburg shapes and colours
I’ve just spent a week in Johannesburg, doing the FoodWineDesign fair, which is held annually on the roof of the Hyde Park Corner shopping centre. I spent a lot of time driving in and out of the centre, and really came to appreciate the parking lot on the 3rd floor, which has a great paint job, …
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