Gatsby Girl Glamour

Like many I'm sure, The Great Gastby is my favourite book and has been since I was seventeen and falling in love with Fitzgerald's conjured world of West and East egg and the tragic hero that is Jay Gatsby. It is a book and a time period which I continually return to for inspiration and much like Gil Pender, Owen Wilson's character in Midnight in Paris, I am so enfatuated with this decade, so much so that my 21st birthday's theme was the 1920's. 

Some of Miuccia Prada's outfit sketches for Daisy and Jordan 

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Win (again) with Urban°and Artists in Residence

Good news readers, today on the blog I get to share about Urban°'s latest artist in residence, Andrew Sutherland, and give a lucky reader an exclusive tank top from the new range! 

For those not familiar, the “Artist in Residence” project that sees local design talent collaborate with their fashion designers on each Winter and Summer range. The aim is to create unique artwork applied in various techniques to t-shirts, dresses, scarves, jacket linings and other items. In December last year, Urban° featured Lauren Fowler, a talented illustrator and graphic designer as the first artist of this project with her 'Neon Summer in the City' range, and one Angelheaded Hipster reader won one of her tank tops. 

This Winter season, the featured local designer is artist Andrew Sutherland. His range features  3 unique fonts created by Sutherland and then applied to dresses, tees, tanks and graphic tees.  This range is inspired by the fairytale “The Little Prince” but adapted to the African landscape with animals such as the jackals, dassie and starling the theme is ““The Urban Burrower – We are Creatures of Comfort”.

I love the graphic nature of the prints, as well as the purpose behind the project - to encourage local designers to learn and explore new techniques and to create a wider audience for young and upcoming artist/illustrators working in South Africa. If you're a regular reader, you'll know how much I believe in the nurturing of local talent and growing the South African creative industry. So the "Artist in Residence" project is a real passion point for me. 

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A touch of whimsy

Sometimes I like to have fun with my clothes and not take them too seriously. Things like a big bow in my hair inject a sense of humour into an outfit and leave me feeling happy, so why not wear one? 

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