There’s been so much change and loss in the print magazine industry during this time of Covid, so it’s heartening to hear from JP de la Chaumette who used this time to launch a brand new online magazine, called Lifestyling.co.za. I asked JP to tell us more about the origins, plans and dreams for this …
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Lifestyling
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Best Things: Stripes
Do you know about the Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon? It’s that thing where you notice something once – a new word, an idea, a colour – and then it seems you just can’t avoid it. It’s everywhere. But is it really everywhere, or have you just become attuned to it? I’ve been feeling that way about stripes. …
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My Home is my Horst
It’s always so exciting to see what stylish people do with Skinny laMinx in their homes, especially when they have a super-strong look of their own. German interiors stylist and author Julia Ballmaier has totally wowed us with the way she’s integrated some of our most colourful pillows into her spectacular home, where she lives …
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Notes from the Pillow Lab : What’s your Pillow Personality?
Take the quiz to find out your Pillow Personality.
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Tips from the Pillow Lab : How to style a sofa symphony
The top 5 tips from the Skinny laMinx Pillow Lab to help you mix pattern and palette with aplomb!
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The Pillow Lab
The Pillow Lab is the Skinny laMinx research facility, where we do groundbreaking research into the issue of mixing and matching pillows to perfection. Read on for more about our Lab work:
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Colour Yum: A peaceful palette
One of my favourite shots from our Living with Skinny laMinx Lookbook is this bedroom shot, where we made up a headboard in the Breeze print, and teamed that concrete colourway with a squishy pile of pillows in restful greys and sages. It’s the perfect palette for unwinding and recharging, don’t you think? Cushions from L-R: Breeze, …
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How Pattern Works
I spent the first month of lockdown designing, filming and editing the How Pattern Works online workshop, which launches today. I developed the course out of my teaching experience with Ace Camps in Portugal, where I was using the amazing tile heritage of Lisbon as my teaching tool. While teaching, I noticed how the energy …
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Making Friday: My Apartment Safari
“What if our real problem was not so much that we are not allowed to go anywhere – but that we don’t how to make the most of what is already to hand?” -Alain de Botton
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