We’ve moved studios, and shops too. From today, the Skinny laMinx studio and store are both at 201 Bree Street, which can be found between Buiten & Bloem Street, in central Cape Town. See you there!
Looking for a production manager
Skinny laMinx needs half-day help!
We are looking for a super-organised, very proactive person to manage the printing and production of Skinny laMinx fabric and product ranges, including setting up and maintaining a stock control system. The role also includes providing assistance in the new Skinny laMinx retail space, and managing local and international trade orders.
The position duties include:
- Developing and maintaining a stock control system
- Managing production process and relationships (printing and CMT)
- Ensuring trade orders are processed and shipped timeously
- Quality control of all products
Applicants must also willing to be involved in:
- styling for product photography shoots
- styling of shop and shop window displays
- assistance in retail environment
Contact: pearl@skinnylaminx.com with CV and references
2011 Catalogue on Issuu
So pleased to have my 2011 Catalogue available to view online at Issuu.
In the DECOREX Designer Collection
I’m so happy to have my Abacus in Inky Blue design included as tea towels, napkins and aprons in the Decorex Designer Collection, launching at the Joburg Decorex. Read more about the Designer Collection here
Furniture at Skinny laMinx
Delighted to announce the launch of a fledgeling Skinny laMinx furniture range, with 50’s-style sofas and stools available to order in any Skinny laMinx print! Read more here
Skinny laMinx on Facebook
I’ve finally succumbed, and joined Facebook. Click for the Skinny laMinx Facebook page
Eep! in sorbet colours
I’ve just released my old favourite Eep! design in running metres, in a range of sorbet colours: cocoa, blueberry, framboos and lemon ice.
Seconds, Samples & Scraps
Save the date!
Cut Out & Keep for Cloud9 Fabrics
I’m so happy to have had the opportunity to design a range of organic quilting fabrics for US company Cloud9 Fabrics, as part of their Designer Series. My collection is called Cut Out & Keep, and will be available for sale from Cloud9 Fabrics and their stockists from April 2011.
Te Hana sparkling wine
In 2010 I was commissioned to design a label for New Zealand sparkling wine company, Te Hana.
New stockist - DesignFabrix
I’m happy to announce a brand new stockist of Skinny laMinx goods as a Dutch online shop called DesignFabrix.
Online shop - for locals only!
I’ve recently opened an online shop selling Skinny laMinx goods to South Africans only. Prices are in Rands, and shipping is at local rates. Hooray! Visit the shop at www.shop.skinnylaminx.com.
Flatware and Pincushions
I have two new tableware designs, available as runners and napkins. One is called Flatware, and is available in Wasabi, Liquorice and in Sage. See more images here
The other new design is based on my paper cutout of a Pincushion Protea, and is called Pincushion. It is available in Charcoal and in Old Gold. See more images here
Skinny laMinx shop opens
I’m so thrilled to have just opened my first retail space. It’s a sizeable 21 sq/m inside the Silk & Cotton Co. showroom in Greenpoint Cape Town, where you’ll find my range of homeware, tableware and paper goods for sale.
Look out for the Vida e Caffe on Somerset Rd, Greenpoint, and you’ll find us right upstairs. Click here for a Google Map to the showroom.
Design*Sponge Top 20
I was thrilled to bits to see Skinny laMinx listed as one of the Design*Sponge Top 20 Fabric Resources, alongside Marimekko, Purl Soho, IKEA, Hable Construction, and more. Thanks, Design*Sponge!
New tea towels
I’ve got three new tea towels available for sale in my new Supermarket shop.
When Everyone Came to Tea, and is in china blue and wedgewood grey.
Shadow Glass is in bottle green and smoke
Leaves is in autumn gold and winter grey.
Stocking Terrain
Very pleased to be stocking Urban Outfitters’ home and garden store, Terrain with some of my tea towels.
Orla yardage
My Orla print is available for sale as yardage. It’s great for all kinds of projects. In a collaboration with Dan Saks of Saks Corner, I’ve had some chairs upholstered in this print.
Organics at Volksfaden
I delighted to announce that one of my designs is being sold at German fabrics company Volksfaden, as part of the Volksfaden organic cotton print collection. My ‘Linked Birds’ design is printed on GOTS certified organic cotton and printed with vegetable dyes, available in gold and in plum.
Skinny laMinx at the Design Indaba Expo
On Thursday 26 Feb 2010 the Design Indaba Expo opens at the International Convention Centre in Cape Town, and I’m very excited to be showing my things for the first time at the Expo. If you’re visiting, please come to the Threadcount stand, where I’ll be along with the rest of the Threadcount Collective.
Four of us are showing together at Expo, and at the same time, we’ll be running a Pop Up Shop in a studio the BoKaap, where there’ll be much more space to see our fabric and buy our things.
The Pop Up Shop will be running until 6 march. Click [here]http://www.threadcount.co.za/2010/02/design-indaba-expo-2010/) for a map to the Shop.
Skinny laMinx for Frazer Parfum
I’m so proud to have my Pincushion design adorning the african hardwood of the Frazer Parfum Solidecontainers.
This local company is selling their high-end products all over the world, including in Harrods, and from this month, the Parfum Solide is available at Anthropologie stores.
Skinny laMinx at The Silk & Cotton Co.
I’m very excited to announce that from January 2010, The Silk & Cotton co. will be carrying my Sevilla Rock range of fabrics in their four showrooms in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban.
Satsuma/Heath Ceramics/ Skinny laMinx giveaway
In collaboration with Satsuma Press and Heath Ceramics, there’s a wonderful giveaway on the Satsuma Press blog, where you can win ceramics from Heath, kitchen linens from me, and letterpress cards from Satsuma Press, designed by Skinny laMinx. It runs to 7 December, so go enter now!.
Fenomen IKEA
The Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg has just opened a show called FENOMEN IKEA, “dealing with the complex field of mass production and quality, globality and national tastes, individual habits and quality of life, fashions in living and advertising, and asks questions such as: does IKEA offer good design? Where does IKEA get its ideas from? Is IKEA typically Swedish? Can living quarters be organized? Does living in a good environment mean that you live a good life? Is there such a thing as a collective IKEA experience?”
Part of the exhibition is a section called NON IKEA, dealing with designers and artists who have made objects that “take up the concepts, materials and products of IKEA and create something completely new out of them: taking aesthetic principles to extremes, introducing new functions, alienating the designs to make them subversive and provocative.”
I’m thrilled that my I Wish We had IKEA tea towels and cushions are on the NON IKEA part of the show. Wish I could be there.
