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or Cape Town based textile designer Heather Moore, a penchant for retro style has directly inf luenced her much-loved creations and store design.
la Minx all began, it all makes perfect sense. “I don’t have any training in art or design, and at first when Paul and I were making our home, we just bought things because they appealed to us, not because of their vintage value. Paul has a highly-developed visual aesthetic that values things like texture and patina. In the beginning he would point something out that I couldn’t see the beauty in, but over time, I started to appreciate”, she says.
Walking into the Skinny la Minx shop and studio feels like you’re walking into a pared down Scandi-style living room. An understated, lean lined sofa, dark painted walls, retro-fabulous cushions in some of the brand’s latest designs and a collection of hanging plants fill the space. It’s not unlike how Heather and Heather studied drama and worked husband Paul’s parquet-f loored city as a copywriter before her foray into pad looks and once I hear how Skinny fabrics. She started sketching some
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