Fairlady asked me to write about the best gift I gave to myself in their love-themed February 2012 issue. Can you guess what I wrote about? Not macarons or shades or shoes…
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.
Think the segment will be screened next Thursday. Follow @TechReportSA on twitter for more.
It’s a bit delayed but just got hold of premium publication Live Out Loud and loved the feature on renowned ‘macaronerie’ (I just made that up – think it works?) Daniela’s. Daniela’s created the Cape Town Girl macaron, which she talks about at length in the interview. Daniela’s also made the MOST incredible macaron cake for my birthday. Did you see it? Clicky. Still makes me shiver with pleasure when I think about it.
The BryanBoy workshop hosted by Sunglass Hut & Marie Claire last Friday at Tjing Tjing was all kinds of fun. Lots of people wearing shades indoors, without fear of ‘looking like total pretentious tards‘ since Sunglass Hut was the official sponsor. Lots of lovely bloggers there including cocotheblog, Dylan Jack, Style Guide CT, Man of the Cloth, Talya Goldberg and FashionBreed. It was great to see you all and so nice to meet a blogger outside of the old CT circles.
BB chatted very openly about a bunch of things, some a bit naughty to repeat here, others less so including how he doesn’t consider himself to be a brand and thus will not be designing his own ranges with fashion labels (missed opportunity sad face) and also how he doesn’t think labels are important (tres capetonian – you can spot a Joburger by the size of their labels). He also spoke about ‘tweet regret’ and about how he doesn’t like to be a ‘hater’ anymore online, agreeing that being bitchy online tends to make you look rather bitter and pathetic since, as he says, it’s all out there in the open and once you put it out there, it’s permanent – defs a lesson a few tweeties could learn here in SA.
A huge thanks to Sunglass Hut for bringing him out here and Marie Claire for facilitating the process – definitely two world-class brands who’re in touch with what’s happening.
PS. Have you seen the new summer stock at Sunglass Hut? Some DIVINE stuff! Like these red and white checked D&Gs. LOVE!
CTG gets quoted on p124 on an article about running. Journalist gets her age wrong (says she’s older than she is) but well what else do we expect from a journalist ;)
Bloc Party’s Banquet and Daft Punk’s Human After All are my favourite running song submissions too. Now go get running!
PS They also have a GREAT article on the psychological damage dieting does to women in this issue. Love Elle. They really are rocking it at the moment.
PPS the writer of the running article is @Brodiegal and she has apologised for getting age wrong. Otherwise she must be applauded on a great article.
You can see my nominations for my favourite beauty products on p98 of this month’s Elle magazine. 2 of mine were runners up - Chanel’s Vitalumiere Foundation and Clinique Pore Refining Solutions Corrector. The latter is always in my bag – it’s amazing if, like me, you go to Elements on Kloof for your eyebrow threading at lunch time and then your eyes are all red and a little puffy like a red panda. Pore Corrector takes the redness away in a matter of minutes!
Check out the video from the VW Date Drive a few weeks back :) Also featured is Tracy McGregor, Dan Nash and Dylan Jack. Check out the other date drive videos live on the website too.
Not only does it show what’s in CTG’s handbag on p114, but it also has a truly beautiful winter fashion story and a great story on girl power through the ages called The Female Factor. I also loved the history of Jackie Burger’s hair, and Chris Viljoen’s farewell article – this makes me very sad, as I always enjoy his writing. I believe he is going to Sarie to become their fashion director. Good luck to him! How lovely is the Missibaba bag featured below?
Entertainment and culture showcase CapeTownLive interviewed me a few weeks back. Here’s the link to the interview on their site.
You should get yourself a copy of the May Cosmopolitan mag - you’ll see me perched in a bauble, clutching my iPhone (and pointing to a fellow TQ’s shoes no doubt) in the Cosmo Queens of Twitter feature. We had such a lot of fun on the shoot, a big thank you to the team who made it so. LOVE those leopard print heels – they’re Zoom if you’re wondering. Jeans are Levi’s Curve ID. Sparkle top is from Slate. Makeup done by SLKaye.
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