Cape Town Fashion Week

Lisp

The Cape Town Fashion Week kicks off on 14th July with some of the most promising designers in African fashion! African Fashion International (AFI) along with the Cape Town Fashion Council and SA and Cape Town Tourism, expertly selected the designers participating in this fashion week in a strict curatorial process and invited them show, rather pay to take part. Wish we could be there… Gavin Rajah’s exquisite pieces, Thula Sindi’s creative designs and Abigail Betz elegant creation… sigh! It will indeed be a decadent celebration of fabulous fashion.

Gavin Rajah

David Tlale

Latinova

#TeamTwiggy

#TeamTwiggy is going out tonight. It's about to be a situation. Stay tuned tomorrow for pics of what the ladies were wearing.
Wish Latinova luck ;)

My first love

My first fashion love was Art Deco jewellery pieces. My mother collects Victorian Garnets and costume jewellery, and on our many hunting trips I developed a deep love for the angular shapes and precious gem stones in an array of ink colours. The pieces are loud and decorative, but edgy at the same time. If you look in my jewellery box, that's what you'll find. If my future husband is reading this....pay attention.

This is like a flashback...

Just a trip down memory lane. I was flipping through some old photos and found this one of some mates of mine. If I remember correctly, we were at an electro gig in East London, raving hard like cool kids do. It's funny how the look was big in the 80's, it came back early 00's and I'm almost willing to bet it'll be back soon.

IT WAS ACCEPTABLE IN THE 80'S!

Style Word of The Day - Bias-Cut

The bias (US) or cross-grain (UK) direction of a piece of woven fabric, usually referred to simply as "the bias" or "the cross-grain", is at 45 degrees to its warp and weft threads. Every piece of woven fabric has two biases, perpendicular to each other. Non-woven fabrics such as felt orinterfacing do not have a bias.

Woven fabric is more elastic as well as more fluid in the bias direction, compared to the on-grain direction. This property facilitates garments and garment details that require extra elasticity, drapability or flexibility, such as bias-cut skirts and dresses, neckties, piping trims and decorations, bound seams, etc.

The "bias-cut" is a technique used by designers for cutting clothing to utilize the greater stretch in the bias or diagonal direction of the fabric, thereby causing it to accentuate body lines and curves and drape softly. For example, a full-skirted dress cut on the bias will hang more gracefully or a narrow dress will cling to the figure. Bias-cut garments were an important feature of the designs of Madeleine Vionnet in 1920s and 1930s and bias-cut styles are revived periodically. In the Middle Ages, before the development of knitting, hose were cut on the bias in order to make them fit better. The old spelling was byesse.

This iconic dress worn by Kiera Knightly in Atonement is an example of a bias cut dress.

A garment made of woven fabric is said to be "cut on the bias" when the fabric's warp and weft threads are at 45 degrees to its major seam lines.

My life be like oohhh aahhh

This is me and my girl Tshepi, together we form #TeamTwiggy :)

Note the jewel blue jacket with hand sewn detailing on the lapel. I will load a picture of the piece separately so you can properly admire.

Turkish Delight cocktail from Tasha's; just for kicks ;)