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Meet Team Skinny laMinx #1
Let’s start the new year by introducing the ever-growing, and endlessly fabulous gals who make up #teamSkinnylaMinx. First up, the head honchos at Skinny laMinx, also known as Heather and Pearl. I’m...
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Meet Team Skinny laMinx #2
You met me and Pearl in the first of these posts, and now it’s time to introduce more of the gals in #teamSkinnylaMinx. Please meet Arlene, Melissa and Sonia, who make up our sales and marketing team....
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Meet Team Skinny laMinx #3
If you’ve been following this Meet The Team series of posts, you might be surprised at how many of us there are at Skinny laMinx. Even I’m taken aback, now and again! But there’s a lot to do around...
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Meet Team Skinny laMinx #4
At last, here they are: the people who put the hands into the handmade. I’m so happy to complete this Meet the Team series by introducing our sewing and cutting team, who work from a studio above our...
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Goodbye, Astrid
Oops! We’ve hardly got going on our little blog series to meet Team Skinny laMinx, and already we’re losing one of the team! If you’ve emailed the shop, or shopped online, or have visited our store on...
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Launching Diggi Dot
We had so much fun at the Diggi Dot launch on Friday! Here are some pics of all the things we got up to at the Open Day, including the selfie station, the make-your-own-bunting station, the printing...
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Upstairs from the shop
At our Diggi Dot fabric launch two weeks ago, we invited everyone to come up the stairs to see what we get up to in our studio above the shop at 201 Bree St. Lots of you couldn’t make it, so I thought...
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Team Skinny laMinx tours Cape Town
Last week, the whole Skinny laMinx team caught the Big Red Bus and took a peninsula tour from Long Street all around Kirstenbosch, Constantia, Hout Bay, Llundadno, Camps Bay, Sea Point, and back home,...
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Skinnylaminxenstein: on REFLECTION
Running a small, rapidly growing business can feel like stumbling through a cave with bats flying in your face. The only thing you can see is the thing right before your eyes, and all you want to do is...
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Meet Team Skinny laMinx #1
Let’s start the new year by introducing the ever-growing, and endlessly fabulous gals who make up #teamSkinnylaMinx. First up, the head honchos at Skinny laMinx, also known as Heather and Pearl. I’m...
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Meet Team Skinny laMinx #2
You met me and Pearl in the first of these posts, and now it’s time to introduce more of the gals in #teamSkinnylaMinx. Please meet Arlene, Melissa and Sonia, who make up our sales and marketing team....
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Meet Team Skinny laMinx #3
If you’ve been following this Meet The Team series of posts, you might be surprised at how many of us there are at Skinny laMinx. Even I’m taken aback, now and again! But there’s a lot to do around...
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Meet Team Skinny laMinx #4
At last, here they are: the people who put the hands into the handmade. I’m so happy to complete this Meet the Team series by introducing our sewing and cutting team, who work from a studio above our...
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Team Skinny laMinx tours Cape Town
Last week, the whole Skinny laMinx team caught the Big Red Bus and took a peninsula tour from Long Street all around Kirstenbosch, Constantia, Hout Bay, Llundadno, Camps Bay, Sea Point, and back home,...
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New York subway scenes
Ok, so that’s me on the New York City subway platform, sporting my freshly Colour Popped Alexander Sack, but… this is not the only sighting of Skinny laMinx on the hot, hot New York subway ride this...
View ArticleBest team ever!
This is a big shout out to the Skinny laMinx team who, in just 4 weeks managed to nail our first New York trade show at NY NOW, pulled off a GIANT fabric sale and topped it off with a very successful...
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Fanmail for Sonia… and team
Oh Sonia, what a treasure of a customer services / online shop manager you are! And with Belinda by your side, wrapping and packing orders so beautifully, and Lericia and Nobuzwe handling the...
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How to style your Scarf : “The Pearl” Tutorial
We’ve made a nifty tutorial to demonstrate one of the many ways to wear our limited-edition woodblock printed scarves. Although the model is our wholesale manager, Lericia, this particular style is...
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How to style your Scarf: Headwrap Tutorial
Our stockroom manager Nobuzwe is one stylish lady and can rock a headwrap in all kinds of ways. Here she shares one of her favourits styles with us in a nifty headwrap tutorial, using our Matchsticks...
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Hello from NYNOW
Hello from New York City, where Pearl and I are finishing up 5 days of showing Skinny laMinx at the NYNOW trade show. While it has been chilly, and the days have been long, it’s been a seriously good...
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