GARWOOD & GRACE

9 October 2014

Garwood and Grace is the up-and-coming young designer swimwear label that has until now been known to just a handful of style, sun and beach loving  Capetonians. The s/s14 range of tailored, quality swim shorts has a distinct St. Tropez just- stepped-off-my-yacht appeal, which is not surprising given founding partner Tiphaine Alston’s credentials: a BA Hons from the UK’s Ravensbourne College, a Masters at the Royal College of Art in London and work experience and commissions from Burberry, Alexander McQueen, Roksanda Ilincic and Victoria’s Secret. But why men’s swimwear? Alston explains: 
When Simon, my husband and “the business brain behind the brand”, and I moved to Cape Town two years ago, we noticed that most men are wearing baggy, unflattering board shorts. As a result, Garwood & Grace came about because I wanted to introduce a tailored, European sensibility to South Africa’s beaches with swim shorts that will be equally at home at a beach bar or restaurant. 
The Summer 2014 prints were inspired by plant textures found in and around Cape Town, by the indigenous fauna found in the North of the country and by rock art observed in the mountain and nature of Cederberg.  Shop the collection online here.

MUTE BY JENEVIEVE LYONS

6 October 2014





JENEVIEVE LYNONS HAS RECENTLY LAUNCHED HER PRET A PORTER COLLECTION APTLY TITLED MUTE. THE COLLECTION IS AN EXTENSION TO JENEVIEVE LYNONS THE BRAND AND EXPLORES WEARABLE MINIMALISM THAT STILL TOUCHES BASE WITH HER VISUALLY ABSTRACT AND CONCEPTUAL AESTHETIC.
MUTE is an extension to the Jenevieve Lyons brand where the ready-to-wear extension lines will compound. MUTE expresses an aesthetic of wearable simplicity whereby garments are intricately designed and constructed with the use of high quality textiles. The garments are strongly articulated with an aesthetic  of ‘oddity’,  which is filtered through the conceptual side of the brand and injected into the ready-to-wear garments to carry through the aesthetic of telling visual parables through apparel; hereby executed in a wearable and accessible manner.

Photography: Kent Andreasen
Models: Loulou Swanepoel and Johannes Westerveld at Ice Models

Shop her other collections on AKEDO
 

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