Danielle Franco is one of our stylish Jo'burg fundis, she promotes beauty brands and creates fabulous events around them. Neofundi caught up with her at the luxurious One & Only Hotel in Cape Town where she hosted the Pond’s event.

1)What do you love most…

It is rare when an international playwright identifies SA as the place to develop her newest work prior to its run in Paris and New York.

Eve Ensler has chosen to create her best-selling book into a play - right here in Jozi.

The run is almost sold out. We have one week left.

Eve identifies the female teenager as the world's most valuable natural resource. The show celebrates, challenges, exposes this notion. The audiences have been going crazy with daily and nightly…

After one of the coldest winter's in years, Grahamstown's spent the last week basking in sunshine! It's still freeeeeeezing at night, but daytimes are positively balmy! And maybe it's cos I was writing a commentary piece on the Greeks yesterday - check out the long blog after this one - but as I was making a fire last night, my thoughts fell on two little nations - one at the bottom of Europe and the other at its very top - who in the bitter cold of winter 1940 fought these amazing guerilla…

In a world taken over by electronic games and virtual entertainment, the Missing Pieces table stands as a reminder of the days of patience, tangibility, and interpersonal synergy. The 4800 jigsaw puzzle pieces that make up this table are from a compilation of the Arc de Triomphe, Winnie the Pooh, the Taj Mahal, and a night sky, and serve as familiar fragments that invite us to play and enjoy…

I have always said "we are the mask we wear". The photos I have chosen represent different moods and evolving personalities. These photos capture the moment of personal transformation.

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Even icons need a bit of updating once in a while, something fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg knows all too well; it explains her astonishing longevity in the business. So when she started noticing inescapable signs of wear and tear in Claridge's-the venerable English hotel that she's called her home away from home since the…

Fact 1

No word in the English language rhymes with purple, orange, month or silver.

Fact 2

Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.

(source)

Fact 3

When you kiss someone for a minute, you both burn about 2.6 calories.

According to that math, it would take about an hour of…

As you know by now, I am obsessed with Cinemagraphs. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

The difference between GIF(Graphics Interchange Format) and Cinemagraphs, is that an animated .gif is usually a sequence of stills pulled from a video, combined together and repurposed into a .gif. Cinemagraphs are different because Jamie and Kevin use a single photograph while adding a…

Inspired by cool, chic Australian fashion, sleek silhouettes and retro pin-up vibes, White Sands Australia set the bar this Miami Swim Fashion Week for effortless glamour. Designer Leah Madden focused the line to not only be cutting…

“He had more issues than the Readers Digest, so she cancelled her subscription.”

I was raised to be a good girl, nice to strangers, and caring to the less fortunate. But seriously, what do I look like? Florence bloody Nightingale?

I seem to have got myself ensconced with a good-looking, successful, charming, funny gentleman who happens to have so much baggage that I’m sure he shouldn’t be allowed to purchase flight tickets at normal…

Shoelosophy notes: 'A shoe is like a scent, a smile, a movement. You don't wear it, you are it'-shoelosophy by Socrati.

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Infinite            Eternal            Forever          Everlasting

The infinity ring is an Elegance signature…

A couple of years ago I was feeling sorry for myself-I can't even remember why, that’s how ridiculous my problems are. But even so, when your smile is missing, you will do anything to get it back. How I get over hiccups is I write myself letters from my inner self to my outer self, 'outer self' also goes by the name 'ego'.

Please note I don’t have a photographic memory, I have a…

                  'Part in the subway with Paris Hilton'

I came across these paintings, which I really liked. So I thought I would share some of this stunning art and discover a little more about the artist. Tos Kostermans. This series is called Bold and Beautiful, it is all about life and humoristic situations. The style is very realistic…

What I'm about to say will probably peeve off everyone I know in marketing and advertising. But I'm going to say it anyway. Just like any nationality can only truly be criticised by its own, after 13 years in corporate communications, I think I've earned the right to point.

So ...

I have come to believe that members of our industry thrive on the impossible deadlines, long hours and the ridiculous turnaround times we're all subjected to, because the degree of difficulty that…

Nick Kaoma is the CEO and cofounder of the local urban streetwear brand HeadHoncho, and here he shares a few of their winning business savvy strategies that saw them through the recession and what is expected to be a double dip(a recession followed by a short-lived recovery, followed by another recession). 

1) Ways in which we’ve expanded the…

SHEER MADNESS

Dolce and Gabbana launched the Spring/Summer 11 season with what was to become their rather famous take on sheer…

        Natalia Vodianova

The exhibition, first shown in Madrid, brings together 54 photographs that reveal the two opposing concepts found in Testino’s work, fashion and the nude. These subjects are to be discovered both in his well-known published oeuvre as a fashion photographer as well as in his personal work, and the show includes a…

 

 

Moments Inspired - Captures the dreamy essence of galmour, feminiity and beauty.…

Photo:Eve Ensler  

tashas sponsored the food and drinks for the Teen Workshop on June 26th with American Playwright

and Activist Eve Ensler.  …