The party season is upon us. After Rocking the Daisies I realised that by having a few essentials on you you can save yourself from having a crap time. Your accessories can literally save you, here’s why: A moonbag: One of these will allow you to have a great time with your hands free. PutContinue reading “Festival Essentials”
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SS’14 :: Witchery, Cape Town
With the exciting additions of quality fashion labels within Woolworths, Witchery and Mimco are the most recent additions within the last six months. Both stores have also opened their own stand alone stores in the Waterfront, similar to Country Road and Trenery. Walking into the Witchery store I was impressed by the unparalleled visual merchandising and garmentContinue reading “SS’14 :: Witchery, Cape Town”
High Street Feet :: Normcore, Platforms & Flatforms
The leading shoe silhouettes this year are undoubtedly the chunky platform styles inspired by the 90s, along with Birkenstocks and flatter styles with a slight to extreme built up heel. Flatforms are a branch off from the platform style, focusing on a mostly uniform flatter platform sole. It can be seen incorporated in manyContinue reading “High Street Feet :: Normcore, Platforms & Flatforms”
Behind The Scenes :: Sugar High
As we see a shift in seasons, so we see a shift in colour palate from darker and structured to lighter and whimsical, thus setting the tone for our pastel & candy tone shoot. Styled with a twist of retro and a playful spirit, I collaborated with photographer Lesca Steyn, hair and makeup artist CharmaineContinue reading “Behind The Scenes :: Sugar High”
The Great Outdoors
As Spring is giving us a taster of what’s to come, the turn of the season brings us the inspiration to get outdoors. Lazy hazy summer days, beach bumming and sunset cocktails spice up our lives, whilst surfing, a run on the promenade or scaling mountains are on the cards for the adrenaline junkies amongContinue reading “The Great Outdoors”
Just checking in …
As the winter laziness sweeps over Cape Town, I attempted to ditch social media for a bit (40% effective) and take a well deserved sanity break to go and climb in Rocklands, Cederberg and Waterval Boven, Mpumalanga. It’s amazing how a bit of space, time spent in nature and on the mountains, and time outContinue reading “Just checking in …”
Middle Eastern Magic :: Chanel Cruise Collection 2014/15
A show that I’ve found truly inspirational is Chanel’s decadent 2014/15 Cruise collection. In the tomorrowland of Dubai, built up from scratch on a remote manmade island, models walked through a lounge of lattice work and towering artificial palmtrees, with princesses and sheikhs among the audience on low lying couches. Overall it was an etherealContinue reading “Middle Eastern Magic :: Chanel Cruise Collection 2014/15”
Kate Moss in Stella McCartney Campaign
Old time celebrity besties, Kate Moss and Stella McCartney, have teamed up again for Stella McCartney’s latest Fall/Winter 2014 campaign. Set in intergalactic zip portals against stars, forests and glaciers, Moss is yet again McCartney’s muse for the seventh time. From star spangled platforms to dip dye techniques resembling amethyst, her range is inspired byContinue reading “Kate Moss in Stella McCartney Campaign”
Not a Wallflower
Florals never really seem to go out of fashion. They may take a momentary break from the spotlight just to come back in even fuller force than before. Come Spring and Summer, we see designers giving new spins on florals in bursting colourful prints, innovative fabrications and even physically bringing bouquets and landscaping into theirContinue reading “Not a Wallflower”
Colour & Texture
Inspired by colour and texture, here are a few local Cape Town artisans who use these elements holistically in their designs. http://skinnylaminx.com/ http://ladymacaron.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/IndaloDecor https://www.facebook.com/WolfandMaiden
