Felt-ful and fabulous, hats by milliner brand Simon & Mary have become a moment – to local street style, travel wardrobes, and worldwide fashion. Here’s why these hat makers have even Hollywood stars titillated…
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Fashion Find: The Chic Dress Bringing Fresh ERRE to Travel Comfort
ERRE – A celebrated South African fashion house has designed a Must-Have high fashion dress fit for travel, the red carpet, and even everyday life.
Find out whether this chic dress will fit your lifestyle like it did my Eurotrip travels…
Fashion Find: The Comfort-Focused Michael Ludwig Studio Dress Bringing Bold & Bright Back!
If Orange is still the new black then Michael Ludwig Studios Double Drawstring Dress is the essential Must-Have that’s fit for more than just one dress code…
Decadent ERRE Threads: What Accessible South African High Fashion Looks like
In their latest collections, ERRE, a South African powerhouse fashion brand, reaffirms their link to the tenets of high fashion AND accessibility, in inspired and flattering ways…
Upcycling Budget Fashion Pieces for Luxe Resortwear Style
Don’t want to shop, but want to look stylish?
I’ve got tips on just how you can get that luxe look AND how to make Upcycling a lifestyle, and not just a fashion trend.
Read on for DIY sustainable styling, where I went to with my own look, and how to score some of the pieces…
Decadent Threads: The Coastal Grandmother Aesthetic
Find out if you have what it takes to be a Coastal Grandma now…
Travel style can sometimes satisfy a case of wanderlust, and on my recent seaside staycation, I dived into the Coastal Grandmother Aesthetic currently trending on TikTok, in movies, peoples wardrobes & ‘soft life’ lifestyles, and in travels around the world.
5 Photoshoot Tips: Self-Portraiture & The Art of Posing
Whether its selfies or self-portraiture, fashion editorials or something else involving camera work, here are my 5 Tips to make your photoshoots better – including posing and equipment tips…
Decadent Threads: The Black One
A look of the day that is grounded in all the fashion sensibilities (and silliness) that Andre Talley embraced in his own personal style.
This is a rumination on a amateur editorial’esque photoshoot with a dark fictional tale…
Decadent Threads: Cocoon Cardigan, Coat or Both?
You try fashion trends, but are they now among your Winter essentials?
Just ruminating on the ERRE outerwear that’s become my year-round Must-Have, and the other warm styling picks that make this season’s cut…
Decadent Threads: An Off-White Selection
Easing into summer with a color that feels fresh, pure, and like the best parts of summer – and a dress and sneaker that pairs well for the season!
With help from my street style, red carpet looks, and resort styling, learn more about the shades of white, and its place in my look of the day and wardrobe for life…
Travel By Scent: Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse Florale
We travel to the Americas with today’s scent: Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse Florale Multi-Use Dry Oil.
Find out more about this glimmering beauty product, the floral fragrance, and my journey to its discovery…
Travel Essentials: Cosy for Cottagecore
There’s so many ways to re-style knitwear to suit the weather and an aesthetic mood.
Check out how I planned my looks for Cottagecore life at Boschendal Farm – my recent travel staycation stop…
Travel by Scent: NUXE Prodigieux le Parfum
During the lockdown, scent became a singular sentimental experience to satisfy my wanderlust.
Here’s how NUXE Prodigieux le Parfum fared in my metaphorical travels with beauty…
Decadent Threads: Vaccinated in Velvet
Plush velvet was my fashion choice for the momentous occasion of my first Covid-19 jab.
There was a whole process to styling – being swept up in the euphoria of finally being closer to this pandemics end, and the fascinating rise of merch saying things like #PfizerGang
Here’s how I got vaccinated in velvet…
Decadent Threads: Bougie by Daylight
For lack of recent fashion week moments, I reminisce and appreciate styling the wearable art fashion house ERRE makes – this time, an evening gown to elevate even your daytime streetstyle, or just High Tea…
Decadent Threads: The Gift of the Bow
I’m talking self-styling, fashion commentary, event looks, my favourite proudly South African fashion house ERRE, and the flourish of a fantastic fashion find…
Check out some great travel style snaps if you don’t feel like reading too…
Decadent Threads: Restyling Quality like ERRE
Getting ambitious with styling as I play with ERRE designs.
Discover ways to rework your existing wardrobe items, and why this fashion house deserves all the praise…
Decadent Threads: Mohair Sweaters for the Winter
It’s Sweater Weather season, and I’m contemplating my fashion needs – from knits to haute couture.
Here’s more about the fresh ERRE winter collection that’s bringing design substance to the spacious practical knit…
Travel Essentials: White Sneakers & PUMA Styling for Comfort
Sneakers are a travel favourite for many, and the reasons why a white pair can be beneficial, are plenty!
Find out which PUMA takkies I favour for travel comfort, style, hygiene, and going the distance…
Travel Essentials: An ERRE Dress for Luxury & Leisure
Celebrating the styling versatility of a fresh ERRE fashion house creation, and the spaces and contexts it could have thrived in without a pandemic in play…
Travel Essentials: Skincare Beauty Finds
I honestly have Self-Care Exhaustion from being locked down, but these are the products I cant do without now, where my skin, travel, and beauty is concerned…
Decadent Threads: Ritzy PINK Comforts
I’m thinking on the long weekend ahead, and styling that’s going to keep me chic and comfortable.
Here are my travel and style musings on ritzy pink comforts by elite South African fashion designer favourites of mine…
Travel by Scent: Berdoues Somei Yoshino & Other Beauty Essentials
Scent became a singular sentimental travel experience to satisfy my wanderlust during the lockdown.
This is why Berdoues Somei Yoshino is now my scent of choice, along with a few new NUXE Beauty essentials…
Travel Essentials: The ERRE BOW Fit and Flare Dress
I may be going through a Fashion Existential Crisis, but ERRE is bringing vibrant new life to this fashion blogger’s wardrobe, starting with a dress EVERY fashion lover is better for having even seen…