Everyone’s been going a bit crazy over the Durex parties. This could be your night on Friday night at St Yves beach club in Camps Bay: Get the party going in one of the themed product chill rooms: relax for a massage in the warmth room or sip on cocktails while fire dancers turn up the heat. If guests can’t take the pace, the Play Tingle Chill room will cool you down. Guests looking for refreshment can make their way to the bar and enjoy Play Cherry or Play Pinacolada cocktails while getting down to the sounds of Goldfish, Crazy White Boy, Roger Goode & Gareth Cliff. It’s almost too much for one evening isn’t it?
If this sounds good to you and you’d quite like a double ticket to the EXCLUSIVE FRIDAY NIGHT event (the others you can buy tickets to, but not this one), justleave a comment below naming two flavours of Durex Play (you’ll find them somewhere in this blog post, except in their cocktail form) or mail me at editor@capetowngirl.com. Winners will be drawn and contacted on the Thursday night.
Click here to like Durex on facebook and stay up-to-date with the Play Parties – some amazing ones coming up including a Locnville party, and the Fat Man Scoop New Year’s Party in Durban. Clicky clicky!
Love this Sea Folly full-piece from Nap. Something about a full-piece that’s so sexy in a ‘I don’t have to show you my belly button to prove I love my body’ kinda way. Plus it frames the female shape so beautifully. Sometimes a bikini can make the body look a little boyish, depending on how well you’ve stuck to your not-eating-in-advance-of-summer-so-can-stuff-myself-at-Christmas-and-everything-will-just-even-out-after diet.
Vivienne Westwood scoring ‘cool heel’ points again. Love these winged beasts. Strutted around the shop in them feeling ‘positively Mercurial’ ( let’s get mythical). From Dillon & Jada for R1 250.
So much love for this little white lacy number from Coco Li. Perfect to pair with the winged beasts. And to throw over the full-piece. Forms part of my Dolce & Gabanna White Summer fantasy where I have fights over the food table with my large and extended Italian family over whether we’re going to sell the Tuscan residence or not (of course we are not, it is our family’s heritage, and what’s an Italian family without a heritage?!). I could go on for days.
“Carine Roitfeld’s influence on fashion is first and foremost her own doing–the fruit of that edgy, chic, and audacious glamour that is hers and hers alone,”Cathy Horyn writes in the forward.“Her style is as sharp and assertive as it is hard to describe, for it depends as much on how she wears the clothes as the brand and labels she chooses.”
The book itself:Irreverent serves as a visual history of a career among the highest echelons of fashion-world elite. More than 360 pages of tear sheets and photographs chronicle Roitfeld’s work since the early 1990s with Tom Ford at Gucci, at Elle and The Face, and with close friend Mario Testino at Vogue.I LOVE hearing stories about how people, who have done well at companies then break out to do their own thing. I am convinced that this is when the good stuff really starts happening. It’s an exciting time to be an exceptional individual – I for one am way more interested in the individuals behind big name companies than I am in the companies themselves. Put it this way – I would much rather read Anna Wintour’s blog than Vogue. Just putting it out there Ms W ;)
Chatted to Ndoni from eTV’s Tech Report on Monday morning about online shopping in South Africa, what companies are doing well, what they could be doing better. I always think after every TV interview that I’ve just babbled on and on and not made any sense. This interview was no different but the crew were super fun, and thanks to them for having me.
An aside: TV is awesome because they do your makeup all stagey and make your hair all pretty and you get so glammed up, but it’s for like fifteen minutes of filming. If you’re like me you think it’s a shame to wipe all this hard work off, so you go to lunch looking like a transvestite that hasn’t been home yet. Good times.
Facebook’s Sean Parker’s got 99 problems. He feels like he ‘doesn’t get taken seriously’. Plus he’s got this albatross of a partyboy reputation he has to live up to that is all Justin Timberlake’s fault. His house got trashed by a party he threw that involved 100 000 bottles of Cristal. When he googles himself, he finds people calling him a jerk. And someone once asked him to leave a party. Basically, Sean Parker hates his life because he’s a terrible miserable-billionaire cliche. Hilaire.Read on at gawker.
Frans sent in this funny video of this past weekend’s ‘Bare to Care’ charity run, which sees a bunch of guys run around Cape Town in speedos (very entertaining and for a good cause). From the Bare to Care site:
“We decided to do it in memory of Chris Henderson who passed away from Diabetes related complications earlier in the year and who was a loving father to one of our runners. None of us knew what a positive response the run would receive, with people hooting and running out of restaurants to have photos with the brave guys in their crazy hats. This year we have decided to add more purpose to the run by doing it to raise funds for the Saint Angela Trust and harness all the attention and hype surrounding our 1 year anniversary run.”
Looks like it was super fun guys. Glad to see the happy people of our pretty city doing something to help those who need help this time of year.
Since Carine Roitfeld left Vogue France a year ago, she’s been working on 
