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Middle Campus, University of Cape Town

//Jersey: Traffic // Skirt:Take Care // 
// Boots: Country Road // Sunglasses: Dolce& Gabbana //
(which makes this a 50% South African outfit!)

//So, this may or may not be myself. I don't really like posting pictures of myself but sometimes it's easier in terms of photographing convenience. Here I am at university looking particularly awkward.

//If you're wondering about my hair colour...my ends are peroxided!

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//291/ Video: White Mischief // Katryn Kruger for KLUK/CGDT

Katryn Kruger for KLUK/CGDT

//I am quite proud to show off this wonderful video for KLUK/CGDT (not that I had anything to do with it) featuring the increasingly popular South African model Katryn Kruger. KLUK/CGDT is one of the bigger designer houses (if one can call it that?) in South Africa and they make truly beautiful clothing: take a look at it here. Apart from that they seem to be warm, genuine people which matters a great deal.

//I love the background song and the fun, silly approach and of course Katryn Kruger's beauty is out of this world.

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//290/ Photography: Clifton 4th

// Clifton 4th, Cape Town

//It's a wonderful, crisp saturday morning in Cape Town and here is one thing you could do today: nothing, on Clifton 4th. 

//And if you're still in bed....which I am absolutely not.....read about Marlene's H&M x Margiela experience on Spruced. I'm not sure I support these High Street x Designer collaborations either and I would most certainly not pay $350 for H&M, ever, under any circumstances. However, it is quite an interesting discussion: whether these collaborations are a good thing. While it might be nice for the person on the street, I don't quite understand why the big design houses do it...I feel it compromises their brand's reputation and renders the small understanding of luxury that we have as irrelevant. 

//And on the topic of luxury: I am sad that it is becoming increasingly more accessible and therefore practically non-existent. An interesting quote by Costanza Pascolato on how the luxury market has changed : 

"Luxury was something that was rare and expensive. Now a days, it’s only expensive because it’s not rare anymore."

//Have a fantastic weekend.

//Love

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Shirt-Tibi  //  Skirt-Anna Sui

Sunglasses- Illesteva  //  Backpack-Pierre Hardy  //  Loafers-Prada

//Today it is overcast in Cape Town and this is what I would like to be wearing. It took me some time but I too have fallen for the Prada espadrilles with their wonderful platform.

//PS// I only recently discovered StyleDevil...take a look it's fantastic.

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//288/ Photography: Muizenberg Beach

Muizenberg Beach, Cape Town, South Africa

//This is where I grew up and it will always be one of my all-time favourite places. I love that black and white film adds a kind of synthetic antiquity to photographs.

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//287/ SS2013RTW: Dolce & Gabbana

Dolce & Gabbana Spring-Summer Ready-To-Wear 2013

//Here are some of my favourite looks from the 80-strong Dolce & Gabbana collection. Despite the fact that there were so many different looks (some I haven't included here, such as the horizontal stripes or the ones with lace), Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana managed to maintain a strong brand identity and that is what I love about Dolce & Gabbana. They consistently re-create the Sicilian woman, either lively in colours and prints or regal in black. One could consider this predictable, but I feel as though they manage to innovate in spite of sticking to the same theme.

//Also, this collection is unapologetically spring.While with some spring-summer collections it is difficult to identify the spring in them, this one is so bright and skimpy and simply unmistakably spring.

//More on the collection on OOOK.

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//The real beauty of these two photographs was lost in the black and white: this girl has fiery red hair which made her look super fierce in a really cool way. Her hair kind of belied her personality...she was in fact really soft-spoken, super shy and somewhat perplexed as to why I would want to photograph her.

//I would love to know if she is really swedish or if Swedish is just a trendy nationality to be at the moment...

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//285/ Photography: Lion's Head

Lion's Head, Cape Town

//Finally I have had my film developed and there are some fairly lovely photographs. Here is a small taste.

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//284/ Eva Downey in the name of summer

Tropical Island

Publication: Cosmopolitan Australia

Issue: November 2012

Photography: Steven Chee

Model: Eva Downey

//When it comes to summer editorials the Australians are really experts (I suppose they have more experience than the Europeans). This is simply heavenly: beautiful swimwear, a simple setting and a gorgeous model (who, yes you can say it, thank goodness, has breasts which is really a rare thing amongst models.)

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