ON SHOOT

While in Cape Town I was lucky enough (by way of contacts, in this world it truly is not what you know but who you know I tell ya) to do a few days of job shadowing with a photographer, designer and food stylist for a South African magazine. These are some photos from behind the scenes during the fashion shoot. I couldn't stop thinking about how different this is to the few fashion shoots in I'd been at in Oz - we all piled into one Kombi (sans seatbelts and a side mirror) and set off for some interesting (read: dangerous) parts of the city.

BLOCK

Photo: Karla Spetic AW12 'Heart' via Oyster, collage: moi.

I like this shirt, like, a lot. That is all.

DIY: SCRUNCHIE

I never wear my hair out. Even if you know me, you probably have never seen me with my hair not in a pony tail or a bun. I'm much better at wasting time eating breakfast and reading before realising I should have left home five minutes ago and not sparing my poor (rather long) locks a thought.

Enter scrunchie.

Have had my eyes on some cool American Apparel ones for some time now but remembered childhood days where my gran used to let me 'design' (/pick out material) my own hair scrunchie and make it in less than 20 minutes.

I picked up this cool-coloured scrap fabric at an Australian fashion label where I've started doing some graphic design intern work recently and this scrunchie took me all but two train trips to complete.

DIY: CUT OFF SHIRT

I don't know if it's the way I dress or if look particularly needy but I always seem to get heaps of second hand clothes passed on to me. Most of the time these huge bags of clothes get passed straight to charity shops (no I don't want your old school uniform) but today I felt a bit inspired...

NEED:

• T-shirt (preferably rock 'n roll)
• fabric scissors

I found that it worked best by turning the shirt inside-out before cutting the sleeves off.

I got the idea to 'modify' this shirt from one of my favourite Sportsgirl tops- I really love the squareish shape of it. If the particular T-shirt is quite large, there isn't even a need to cut around the neck, I just found this one a tad tight for summer.

It literally took about 4 minutes to do this and I will definitely be trying this with some of my other old & forgotten T-shirts. Note: I am not actually a big fan of ACDC...but wearing this I like to think that I look like someone who is.

I had a really nice weekend- the party on Friday was great and I spent the rest of the weekend lazying by the pool drinking slurpees and San Pellegrino (one of my presents was a whole case of it!). Photos of Friday night to come soon.