Gun Metal Greys are the latest trends

Bye-bye smoky eye! Gray is laying claim to another important part of our beauty routine: the nail. Less dramatic than black, but nowhere near as bland as white. Grey is quickly becoming the lacquer look du jour for many fashionistas. From ashen to smoke to gunmetal, sooty is…

Remember that daft game we played at school? - the one where you held out your left hand, got the other kid to look and then bonked him on the head with your right - remember? In today's South African socio-political landscape, that game's now a firm favourite - and the red herring left hand has a name: Malema.

It happens time and time again, as I've pointed…

Skyline Gardens, Braamfontein. The photo is from SouthPoint Hospitality

Thursday night I spent surrounded by Joburg’s fashion set at the Marie Claire Prix D’Excellence del la Mode 2011, which if my French serves me (until now…

The Glitter look- both genders seem to have embraced this with sparkling fabrics.

Boho Baroque look

Kitsch

Throwback Hair…

'A woman so beautiful, I dress her with my eyes' - Shoelosophy

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Infinite 60, high fashion retail stores house some of the trendiest and most sought after denim and lifestyle brands globally. These brands include G-Star Raw, Feiyue, Superdry, Hudson, Fromanteel, Melissa x Vivienne Westwood shoes and uber-brand Scotch & Soda. 

Infinite 60 prides itself on a high level of knowledge of their product, consumers and the their market. The success of…

Swap out your statement necklace with a pin, à la Alexa Chung at the launch of 30 Days of Fashion and Beauty in Sydney. Strategically placed right in the center of her buttoned-to-the-top collar, Chung's bow-shaped brooch is a cute alternative to this season's collar necklaces and chokers.…

Comedian and cabaret artist Ursus Wehrli must be the tidiest artist I have ever come across. He is the author of Tidying Up Art, a visionary manifesto that yearns toward a more rational, more organized and cleaner form of modern art. 

His upcoming book, The Art of Clean Up, extends this principle into the physical world, with extremely (though oddly) satisfying results. Scroll…

Apivita-Express Beauty Masks: 

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Photo by Zac Rusagara

It’s reassuring to know that there’s a name for this condition. Among its symptoms are thinking that every cloud formation is worthy of a photograph, and every amusing sign or artfully arranged plate of food deserves to be captured, shared and…

This humorous poster series takes some of the most common, everyday lies we tell ourselves and hear from others, and bluntly translates them into the unequivocal truth. By visually representing the difference in what we often say but secretly mean, Truth and Lies uncovers the inane conversational nuances that reveal paradoxical dichotomies in our otherwise ordinary life. In…

Jennifer Aniston, Demi Moore, & Alicia Keys talk to Glamour about their new project…

The women’s advocacy project of the year: Five, a series of films about women and breast cancer that, stitched together in a two-hour block airing on Lifetime on October 10.

I love the project and positive message, as for the cover, to much photoshop.…

Two of my favourites - Madonna and Rolling Stones Magazine. Follow their covers through the years.

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An astonishing animated chart that summarizes the shift between LPs, cassettes, CDs, and MP3s.

The series of pie charts shows the sales of various music formats: Thus, you can see cassettes begin devouring the LP, and then CDs devouring cassettes, and then, of course, downloadable MP3s decimating CD sales.

Obviously, the contours…

Humorous ads remain one of the few effective ways to engage an audience in a very saturated advertising market. This is an area where the audience is far more receptive and still willing to pay attention. 

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Paz de la Huerta stars as the meta-celebrity in this challenging and emotive Agent Provocateur A/W 2011 Campaign. Echoing the overt sense of sexuality so powerfully articulated in her role in ‘Boardwalk Empire’, de la Huerta brings glamour and explicit confidence to this character.

For those that know my blog, this is the first campaign I have ever covered. I am…

Two years ago Acqua di Parma asked Milanese architect and designer Luca Scacchetti to reinterpret the bottle for their iconic eau de cologne, Colonia, and produce a limited edition collector's piece.

Scacchetti, who…

Sexy Summer – Here is a look at Victoria’s Secret’s “Bombshell” collection which is in stores now. The summer lookbook features four of our favorite VS girls including Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Candice Swanepoel and Erin…