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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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: 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…
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…
Outfit of the Day: Winter Sunshine
Reviving Summer with this Canary Yellow Ootd, snapped on a cold day, at France’s opulent Palace of Versailles.
Look of the Day features: ERRE, Coast & Koi, Swiitch Beauty and more…
Cape Town Fashion Week 2019: Day Four Outfit of the Day
Find out how well a mix of Street Art, Resortwear & High Fashion work as a street style OOTD, at AFI Cape Town Fashion Week.
Cape Town Fashion Week 2019: Day Three Outfit of the Day
One of South Africa’s finest and most celebrated milliners, Crystal Birch, and her impeccably crafted crowns of revelry, offered up the opportunity to not take myself, Fashion Week, or fashion, too seriously this season.
Cape Town Fashion Week 2019: Day Two Outfit of the Day
Today’s outfit of the day, is continuing my slow-burn into the penultimate #IAMAFRICA Cape Town Fashion Week runway nights.
Cape Town Fashion Week 2019: Day One Outfit of the Day
Day 1 involved AFI ‘Masterclass’ Talks in a creative space, removed from the cities Central Business District – Salt River. With the location in mind, I kept my Day 1 look comfortable and simple.
Top 5 Incredible South African Designers Fashion Lovers Should Invest in, in 2019
I feel honored and obligated to make a little ruckus about these Top 5 incredible South African designers, whom I think, deserve more love, and should be on any fashion-lovers radar in 2019.
Travel Paris: Eiffel to Arc Outfit of the Day
“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.” – Coco Chanel Sometime between finding my head during Paris fashion week, and learning to briefly live in a different language, Eiffel in love with the tower. It is an incredible feat of human engineering – a phallic monument attesting to great power. We visit this…
Travel Paris: Versailles Outfit of the Day
Once home to the famed Marie Antoinette, the Palace of Versailles was a gilded cage for the final (Austrian) Queen of France, before s%#* hit the proverbial French Revolution fan. Christened as a symbol of ‘absolute monarchy’, the Chateau went through a riveting period of the entire French kingdom being ruled from its hallowed halls…
Paris Fashion Week 2018: Day Four Outfit of the Day
What do you do in-between shows, and hoping for more tickets to them? I don’t known about you, but I sight-see like you wouldn’t believe. *P.S: I am the only real sight to see here I headed out the door, making sure to look cute just in case a show ticket should happen upon me….
Paris Fashion Week 2018: Day Three Outfit of the Day
I revel in drama. I am a situational extrovert – which means, for the most part, I am an introvert who is able to manifest a sliver of social skills & graces, when necessary. One polarizing personality trait that stands in defiance of this fact, is that when I am aware I look good, I…
Paris Fashion Week 2018: Day Two Outfit of the Day
Designs from the incomparable Erre fashion house, are beauty in motion. I never feel anything but sublime in their exquisite creations – each one vocalizing a deep and abiding adoration of the female form. For Day 2 of Paris Fashion Week, I relinquished minimalist sophistication, for bold modernity. Planning my outfits mostly amounts to throwing…
Paris Fashion Week 2018: Day One Outfit of the Day
Yesterday, I had a harrowing experience that nearly decimated my #FrenchKlaas trip before I kicked off Paris Fashion Week at all. I was shaking and crying, freaking out about the potential idea of having no money while I’m still at the start of my trip. Luckily, everything worked out just in time for my first invite-only Fatima Lopes showcase. I had…
Outfit of the Day: Darkness
A forgotten simple outfit – its visuals lost to the back-end of my phones archives. I love this straight, ombre hair from Aretha Bauwens Hair. It makes it easy to just dress and go when I’m travelling. I’m also rocking black tassel earrings by H&M, a vest and pleather jacket (that is falling apart, after…
Outfit of the Day: Fine Art
I recently got the opportunity to visit Norval Foundation, in Steenberg. The incredible magnitude of the gallery itself, is matched only by the landscape that makes its backdrop. “We are dedicated to the research and exhibition of 20th- and 21st-century visual art from South Africa and beyond…We aim to create high-quality exhibitions and public programming…
Outfit of the Day: Deep Blue Broad
“We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis lazuli, the sky, someone’s eyes. Our definitions are as different as we are ourselves.” – Sarah Dessen I’ve spent so many travel days wearing this dress, that it’s nearly my…
Outfit of the Day: Winter Song
This look is literally from an event I attended a while ago, but I’d be remiss in my duties as a fashion blogger, not to post something this Saturday. So here’s an Outfit of the Day for you. It’s cold in Cape Town, and so I got my Adrienne Landau fur out for the day….
Outfit of the Day: Earth Tone
I figured, my clothing is useless if I don’t re-wear my favorite items so here we go with regular Ollie look, and some exceptional pieces.
Outfit of the Day: Grand Duchess
The beach may be all encompassing of the depth and vast expanse of my wanderlust, but in-land getaways have their charm. “In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms…