Celebrate with Skinny laMinx this festive season

The holiday season is a time to celebrate with parties, family gatherings, and end-of-year functions. Whether you’re hosting a warm and cosy get-together around the fire, or whiling away an afternoon under the trees near the swimming pool, Skinny laMinx invites you to celebrate in style with an array of party perfect décor pairings.

Celebrate Outdoors

Set up a holiday table on the lawn under the trees and pair a Woodpile table runner in spruce with Simple Stripe napkins in mint. Add a zesty pop with Bowls cushion covers in lemon slice and finish with soft buckets filled with luscious greenery. Or celebrate seaside on the beach cottage patio with shades of pacific or china blue and lighthouse flash of cheerful signal red.

Indoor Celebrations

When the weather brings the celebrations indoors, it’s an opportunity to enjoy the glow of candlelight with friends and family. Keep it elegantly monochromatic, while playing with prints that clash in the subtlest way. Pair a Block Circle table runner with Simple Stripe napkins in liquorice and pile freshly-baked bread rolls into Palmetto soft buckets in tarmac. Or defy the chilly weather by throwing the hottest, wildest New Year’s dinner - aka a Confetti Sushi party - ever! Mix and match brights irreverently, and usher in 2016 with celebratory glee.

And for Dessert...

Fill stockings with rolled up aprons or change purses and, for the person that has everything, a framed Giclèe print, or a Nuvango iPhone case in a signature Skinny laMinx print will do the trick. Add the finishing touch with beautiful gift tags in an array of designs and colours.

Make the Skinny laMinx Christmas catalogue your celebratory go-to guide this festive season! Click here to access the catalogue.

All products featured in the catalogue are available from the Skinny laMinx shop at 201 Bree St, Cape Town, and online at: shop.skinnylaminx.co.za.

Introducing Diggi Dot Collection by Skinny LaMinx

A new fabric collection inspired by Jaipur and the process of block printing!

In 2014, Skinny laMinx designer Heather Moore was invited to teach a three day course in pattern design and generation to an international group, as part of a seven day experiential tour in Jaipur, India. The focus of the tour was traditional Indian block printing and dying techniques, and Heather’s role was to teach the group to design and create pattern, using linoleum printing blocks. She stayed in a charming old hotel called Diggi Palace, teaching in the shade at a leafy poolside courtyard.

While preparing for the trip, Heather did a lot of lino block printing in her studio, finding this method of generating pattern very exciting, because of the way the simplest shapes can generate endless combinations and variations, with just a shift of direction or colour.

Heather had anticipated, upon her return, that she would create designs bursting with the vibrant aesthetic excesses generally associated with India, but instead, she found herself drawn to soft colours and delicate lines. This is what she wrote in her journal on the last day in Jaipur:

“I have come away with a sense of sweetness and calm beneath the clamour and chaos of the traffic. Delicate fabrics, the finest lines, the softest tones: My experience of India has been all about exquisite skill, craftsmanship and attention to the finest detail.”

The Diggi Dot Collection

The result is the Diggi Dot collection, where the simplest block printed motifs- a line, a half circle and a dot - combine with the fresh, light colours of Jaipur.

Incorporating Diggi Dot

Including Diggi Dot into the existing range of prints and palette has revealed lots of new & unexpected colour combinations, which Skinny laMinx is looking forward to sharing in the 2015/6 COLOUR BOOK.

Simple Stripe

• Lemon
• Mint
• Liquorice
• Steel
• Signal red

Sway

• Steel / Signal
• Lemon / Mint
• Liquorice / Fog

Gridly

• Steel / Signal
• Glass / Mint
• Lemon / Fog

Block Circle

• Liquorice
• Steel
• Signal red

Skinny laMinx fabric is priced at R545/meter and is available from their Bree Street shop in Cape Town and online at www.skinnylaminx.com

Skinny laMinx Launches Paradise is Here Wallpaper with Robin Sprong

Skinny laMinx introduces their newly-launched Paradise is Here wallpaper collection with Robin Sprong. All the wallpaper designs are printed onto a pre-gummed PVC-free wallpaper that is 100% recyclable, and printed with non-toxic latex inks. Peep the pictures below:

Skinny laMinx x The Christmas Edit

This year, Skinny laMinx designer Heather Moore gives traditional Christmas décor a Southern Hemisphere twist. There may be snowflakes and pine trees decorating the streets and stores in the Northern Hemisphere, but down South it's hot and sunny – much more in tune with palm trees than pine trees!

To celebrate Christmas this year, Skinny laMinx brings us amazing products to set the tone for our Christmas lunches and diners.

Take a look at some of the products in their amazing Christmas collection:

Skinny laMinx have also introduced a cheerful range of ‘North/South’ festive greeting cards and gift tags. The flip-over design allows you to send appropriate seasonal greetings around the world, no matter whether it’s deep Midwinter or blazing Summertime. Sending greetings to family in Australia? Send your card sunny side up. Off to icy Berlin? Well then, lead with the snowy side. You can also expect a selection of litho printed gift cards and gift tags in sets of 6.

Visit http://skinnylaminx.com/catalogues/ for more information and to see the Skinny laMinx products catalogue for 2014/15. All the items in the Skinny laMinx Christmas product catalogue are available for purchase online at skinnylaminx.com or from the Skinny laMinx shop at 201 Bree Street in Cape Town.