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healthy & fit this summer: 10 easy steps:

So the newest member of the Old Street team is not only a dance guru with extremely cool style, Vee also represented South Africa in the b-girl breakdancing world championship in France last year. Vee has put together some basic steps to get into shape for summer. We are huge advocates for a healthy body and mind, so have a read and apply these easy steps into your life - it’s doable and fun!

Whether you haven’t taken a dance class in 20 years or have never even danced in your life, my Dance Fitness class is designed specifically to get into shape. Regular exercise increases the metabolism of your body - every time you perform any kind dance exercises, if only 30 minutes, you’re burning about 200 to 400 calories. Always remember not to push yourself too hard though, even if you are doing simple or complex dance routines. Right pacing is important so that your body can adapt to the routines gradually. Remember, take it easy and just have fun with what you do. Take a break when you need to. It’s very important to determine your limits. When you feel your body is starting to feel fatigued, lower your movements and slowly end your exercise. Do not stop immediately because your mind and body should also be conditioned to avoid body shock. Dancing is enjoyable for all ages and fitness levels – so smile and enjoy yourself when you dance and silence that inner critic and don’t be afraid to strut your stuff!

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10 Steps: Take brisk walks Snack on veggies if you feel peckish – leave the junk food Make sure you get about seven to eight hours of sleep each night Quit sugar Don’t eat processed foods Include protein in your diet E at leafy greens Drink water – in fact, drink lots of water Take part in more relaxing outdoor activities for peace mind Dance OLD STREET MAGAZINE

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Andy Warhol and fashion the ultimate auction A special two-week online-only sale to benefit The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts takes place at Christie’s, the world’s leading art business.

Andy Warhol@Christie’s: Fashion will focus on art which offers insight into the New York fashion world through the eyes of the artist, and will feature over 120 photographs, prints, and drawings. Collectors around the world will have the opportunity to bid online to acquire these exceptional works, the majority of which have never been seen by the public. Before he found fame as the father of Pop Art, Andy Warhol was an accomplished advertising illustrator and commercial artist for fashion tastemakers such as Barney’s, Neiman Marcus, I. Miller, Glamour, Mademoiselle, and Harper’s Bazaar. In 1945, Andy was accepted to the Carnegie Institute of Technology (known today as the Carnegie-Mellon University). While on summer break, he worked at a prestigious department store creating window displays, “When you think about it, department stores are kind of like museums.” It was there that he was introduced to the world of high fashion, which would later influence his interest in becoming an illustrator. Carnegie Tech nurtured Andy’s keen sense of design and visual creativity. In New York, armed with a portfolio of samples, Andy sought work as an illustrator

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and quickly was hired by major magazines like Glamour, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar. Throughout the 1950s he created a prolific number of fashion ads, books, record albums and many other promotional items. He also worked to create innovative advertisements for I.Miller, a popular shoe company. From his background in advertising, he was well-groomed for the 1960s art world. After a decade of breaking barriers as a pop artist, Warhol decided to create Interview magazine In 1969, which became one of the mostinfluential publications of the time. Documenting the cultural climate, Warhol incorporated fashion, art, and of course, the cult of celebrity. Through Interview, Warhol forged personal relationships with many fashion designers like Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent, while models like Jerry Hall and Bianca Jagger appeared regularly throughout its pages. He dined with Diana Vreeland, shopped with Halston in London and partied with Diane Von Furstenberg. Everyone from designers to socialites vied to have their portrait painted by him.

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Africa’s greenest hotel has arrived

Next time you head to Cape Town International Airport have a lookout for Hotel Verde - Africa’s greenest hotel. This world-class establishment surpasses what owners Mario and Annemarie Delicio’s had hoped for with regards to comfort, functionality and a level of sustainability not yet seen on the continent.

Part of the BON Hotels Group, Hotel Verde is conveniently situated just 400m from Cape Town International Airport and within easy driving distance of the city’s central business and shopping districts. Designed to meet the specific requirements of travellers on their way in and out of the city, Hotel Verde also has excellent conferencing and dining facilities. But, what makes it unique is the length to which the team have gone to minimise the hotel’s carbon footprint, from (under) the ground up. What it offers: - Natural, fresh, optimum temperature airflow is fed into every room and will reduce the need to use the air conditioner. - The hotel is built with concrete slabs containing recycled materials, using Cobaix - Void Formers. Strategically placing these recycled polypropylene, hollow spheres save approximately 1279 tons of concrete, while maintaining structural integrity. - Hotel Verde also boasts photovoltaic panels, wind turbines and a sophisticated grey water recycling plant that will reduce the hotel’s water consumption by a massive 37%. - Guests are encouraged to embrace our greening philosophy and will be offered rewards for sustainable practices during their stay. - The fully equipped hotel gym is the first in Africa to have power-generating equipment. These machines push power back into the hotel as you work out, showing the amount of energy you are generating. - In order to bypass the need for standard air-conditioning systems, traditionally one of the biggest energy consumers, Hotel Verde uses geothermal heat pumps coupled to 100 boreholes drilled approx. 65 metres into the ground, where the temperature is a consistent 19 degrees.

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Bold, bright and fearless

Stooshe, the three-piece girl group made up of Alexandra Buggs, Karis Anderson and Courtney Rumbold, hail from London and are opinionated, witty and willing to try anything with fashion.

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They dabble in the smooth sounds of 90s R&B and are not afraid to put their stamp on things – daringly doing a cover of TLC’s “Waterfalls” in 2012.

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The SOCK GUY

“I think the fashion industry in SA needs a little bit of disruption.“ - Nic Haralambous , founder of nicsocks

What inspired you to start making socks? I’ve always had a passion for socks and local produce. So I decided to try my hand at making the loud and colourful socks I love but doing it locally. I tried and so far I have been successful. What has the reaction being like? I’ve dealt with reactions varying from complete shock that I’ve entered the fashion industry to delighted surprise at the boldness of the socks. On the whole though I think there has been a very positive response and the socks have sold very well. What can people expect from your brand? People can expect incredible quality from fabrics grown and manufactured in South Africa. They can also expect a new way of looking at men’s fashion and catering for the things that men want out of fashion. My internal motto for NicSocks is that if I won’t wear it, I won’t sell it. is this a first for SA? I think that there are some things that make NicSocks a first for SA. We do subscription socks online - so you pay us and we send you our new designs every few months. That’s new and that’s a first for socks. Producing locally and shipping globally is a big deal for us, we’re trying to show other small manufacturers that exporting goods can be done. It’s not a first but we’re making great steps here. What’s your take on the fashion industry in SA? I think the fashion industry in SA needs a little bit of disruption. I think that there are cliques that exist that are impossible to break into from the outside but with e-commerce knocking on everyone’s doors things are changing. I’m trying to be an agent for this change and at the forefront of fashion online.

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“Failure is a natural route to success so you need to learn how to fail before you can figure out how to succeed.“ Where is the company based and how can people purchase the products? We’re based in Cape Town. To purchase NicSocks people need to head to: http://nicsocks.com. We ship globally. How did being a previous business owner help you? Having started and failed more businesses than I care to remember and succeeding in my last venture I can confidently say that it gets easier to start businesses the more you do it. Failure is a natural route to success, so you need to learn how to fail before you can figure out how to succeed. What is the one pearl of wisdom you can offer to someone who wants to start a business? Shut up and do it. Stop making excuses, stop saying that you don’t have the time or the money. I started this business with a tiny budget and had everything off the ground and generating revenue in less than 6 weeks. Can you tell us a bit about Motribe? Sure. Motribe was a mobile community platform that I started back in 2010 after having left Vodacom. My business partner and I believed that we could help brands and individuals in Africa build communities using their mobile devices.

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skattie, what are you wearing? Kim Van Wyk caught up the ever-fabulous Malibongwe Tylio. His blog Skattie, what are you wearing? is a staple when you need a dose of fashion, humour and inside look into what the fashionable and not so fashionable are up to.

What was the motivation behind starting your blog? When I started the blog I used to be in a more corporate job as a fashion buyer at a retailer - very creative but still corporate. A part of me wanted to work on something outside of the corporate world, something that wasn’t governed by market forces. I also went to a lot of art exhibitions and I was inspired by the style I saw there and the style I saw on my friends. How did you come up with such an apt name? A friend and I were quite drunk and talking rubbish, and we got to imagining a YouTube show about questionable outfits which we decided we would call it ‘Skattie, what are you wearing?’ The premise for the show was quite different, more bitchy, however the blog turned out to be much more of a celebration of style I love rather than focusing on questionable outfits, but that conversation stayed with me, and when I decided to start the blog, I thought it was just the perfect name. You have managed to become one of Sa’s trendiest bloggers and socialites. How has this influenced your life? Honestly - it’s been really awesome. While I enjoyed fashion buying and all the international travel that came with the job, I’ve always wanted to get into media and to work on something that felt like my own. The blog definitely is that, and it’s opened doors for me in the media world. I currently work as Editor at Large for Visi Magazine, undeniably South Africa’s best decor and design magazine. I also do quite a bit of freelance writing work for other magazines. So basically this blog has given me a complete career change, which i knew I wanted but did not know how I would get, before the blog that is.

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With a title as SA’s Best Fashion Blogger under your belt, have you ever considered making your blog a primary source of income someday? This one is a tricky one for me, the methods of making money through blogging in SA currently do not appeal to me. Most of the time it’s through advertising and sponsorships. The sponsors often require bloggers to punt their product, which I think often messes with the blogger’s voice and credibility. As for the advertising banners on blogs, I find them aesthetically unpleasing. So, I end up regularly turning down advertisers and sponsors, preferring instead to maintain my voice and opinion. If I read something on a blog and I think it’s bullshit for cash, then I lose a bit of respect for the blogger, so I try to maintain some integrity, and a respect for my blog’s readers. However, like I mentioned above, my current job and other money making opportunities have come to me because of the blog - so indirectly I am making my income because of the blog. As for the future, my ideal advertising situation would be for the blog to grow big enough for me to take on one advertising banner or sponsor that would fit into the aesthetics of my blog without overwhelming or influencing the content. What would be your advice to people wanting to start a blog ? Just do it. I think sometimes we overthink things and we don’t start because we think they’re/we’re not good enough. And yes, sometimes they are not, but most things improve with time and practice anyway. We just gotta be brave and put ourselves out there, and be receptive to feedback, and seek out the not so good feedback as well. Rejection used to be, and still is one of my greatest fears, but I’ve also learnt to say ‘shit happens’ and soon it’ll hurt less’. What is your advice on finding one’s individual style? Do you. Sure, educate yourself on trends, styles, what’s out there, but ultimately you must do you, what’s comfortable for you, what excites you. However, you must know your body, get comfortable with it and dress for it.

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Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s

The Old Street team were lucky enough to visit the Victoria & Alfred’s fashion exhibition in London - Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s. The exhibition explores the creative explosion of London fashion in the 1980s and offers inspiring insight into how the impact of underground club culture was felt far beyond the club. More than 85 outfits by designers such as John Galliano, Vivienne Westwood and Katherine Hamnett is on display together with accessories by designers including Stephen Jones and Patrick Cox. The ground floor gallery focuses on the young fashion designers who found themselves on the world stage for creating bold, exciting looks. The mezzanine gallery concentrates on club wear, grouping garments by tribes such as Fetish, Goth, Rave, High Camp and New Romantics. This includes clothes worn by Boy George and Adam Ant, as well as more extreme designs worn by Leigh Bowery.

The Catwalk To provide a snapshot of the most fashionable and creative designers working in London in the 1980s, the exhibition shows a display of Blitz denim jackets. In 1986, Blitz magazine commissioned a group of 22 London-based designers to customise denim jackets provided by Levi Strauss & Co. The jackets were exhibited at the V&A and auctioned in aid of the Prince’s Trust on 10 July 1986. Further cases will display garments by influential 1980s designers, with a substantial amount of menswear designs by Jasper Conran, Paul Smith, Workers for Freedom and Willy Brown who dressed Duran Duran. Textile design played an important part of 1980s fashion, with designers such as Betty Jackson working with design collectives like The Cloth, helping to create the archetypal early 80s silhouette of loose shirts and bold prints. Wendy Dagworthy utilized Liberty prints while English Eccentrics and Timney Fowler made print fashionable. There will also be sections dedicated to the energetic, bright clothes of Chrissie Walsh, Georgina Godley, Bodymap and John Galliano. In the early 1980s Katherine Hamnett pioneered the vogue for stylish, casual clothing made in oversize crumpled cottons and silks. Her designs were often based on utilitarian boiler suits and army fatigues. She conceived a series of T-shirts emblazoned with slogans, using fashion as the platform for her Green politics. Hamnett caused a sensation by wearing her T-shirt with the slogan ‘58% Don’t Want Pershing’ to meet the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984. Bodymap, founded in 1982 by Stevie Stewart and David Holah, produced an exhilarating

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Bodymap, A/W 1984, Cat in the hat takes a rumble with a techno fish. Model: Scarlett Cannon, 1985 Monica Curtin Installation image of From Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s, V&A

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E V E N T blend of form-fitting knits, layered stretch Lycra jersey and rhythmic print. As one fashion editorial noted, their inspiration had ‘sprung from the streets, sharpened in the clubs’. The designers gained further momentum through their collaborations with choreographer Michael Clark. Mixing and matching, or ‘bricolage’, was reflected in the titles and themes of Bodymap collections, such as Cat in the Hat takes a Rumble with a Techno Fish, which pulled together elements of Dr Seuss’s surreal cartoon comedy, black-and-white graphics, bright colours and 1980s American ‘bratpack’ films. John Galliano graduated from St Martin’s School of Art in 1984. His degree Collection, Les Incroyables, was inspired by the French Revolution and he spentmany hours studying the dress collections at the V&A. Two of Galliano’s menswear ensembles from the 1985 Fallen Angel collection will be on display, along with a pink, muslin dress from 1986. This section will also explore the emergence of knitwear as fun and fashionable, with examples from Kay Cosserat, Artwork and Patricia Roberts, while evening wear by Bruce Oldfield and Anthony Price will reflect the more glamorous aspect of 1980s fashion. The Club London’s clubs in the 1980s acted as a site for the convergence of music and fashion and provided a safe environment in which young people could experiment and mix with those of similar tastes. Fashion designer Stevie Stewart of Body Map noted that ‘each group of people, whether they were fashion designers, musicians or dancers, filmmakers or whatever, living together, going out together and at the same clubs … had a passion then for creating something new … that was almost infectious’. Examples of the resultant looks will be displayed, ranging from the exaggerated, exotic styles favoured by the Blitz crowd, through the distressed styles of Hard Times, to the eclectic mixing and individual expression of Taboo, to the dance influenced looks of acid house. In September 1982, The Face observed a ‘hardening of attitudes in music and fashion’ that reflected the economic conditions of Thatcherite Britain: ‘Ubiquitous Levi’s worn into holes, sweatshirts serving their purpose and losing their sleeves, leather dominating everything … big boots and no socks and espadrilles … T-shirts ripped and torn’. The ‘Hard Times’ look coincided with a revival of rockabilly style in clothing and music, reflected in leather designs by Lloyd Johnson.

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At Taboo, so-called because ‘there is nothing you can’t do there’, Leigh Bowery became the ringmaster of a carnivalesque nightspot, where parodying the norms of everyday life and ‘fashion’ was encouraged. Clothes designed and worn by Bowery will be on display alongside fetishwear by Pam Hogg and Vivienne Westwood. Clothes by Christopher Nemeth and jewellery by Judy Blame will show how customization, DIY and re-appropriation of objects prevailed as the club look. Michiko Koshino’s first store in Covent Garden had a dance club atmosphere and included DJ turntables to complete the effect. In 1987, she began a line of menswear called Motorking, which was worn by David Bowie and Moby. Her club designs included garments made from inflatable plastic fabric that blurred the distinction between art and fashion. Rave and euphoric house nights, where the combination of dance music and drugs created an atmosphere in which inhibitions were totally gone, changed dress once again. Following the summer of 1987, a number of DJs began to recreate the sound and atmosphere of the Ecstasy-fuelled Ibiza dance clubs. The loose shapes of the early 1980s disappeared and a new kind of tight fitting club wear evolved that featured day-glo colours and metallic tones. This movement is represented by the designs of Rifat Ozbeck and Westwood’s silver leather ‘armoured’ jackets. The atmosphere of friendly and fun clubs like Shoom began to be reflected in much more casual styles. The dressed-up aesthetic of earlier clubs, like Taboo, was replaced by ‘ponchos, dungarees, and loose T-shirts bearing the yellow Smiley motif’ as reported The Face in June 1988. A small club-like area will be created within the space to show film footage of clubs from the 1980s and stream music chosen by DJ Princess Julia. There will also be unique garments made for club stars such as Leigh Bowery, Scarlett and Juliana Sissons. The clubs were a place to perform and shine and the clothes, worn by men and women, were extreme and made a statement. Magazines and accessories The exhibition will feature magazines of the time – The Face, i-D and Blitz – that captured and propagated the club and street look to a wider audience. The Faceheralded the arrival of the ‘style’ magazine and combined a sense of immediacy with the highend production values of Vogue and Tatler. i-D was launched in August 1980. It adopted a radical agenda by showcasing street fashions and featuring non-professional models. Essentially a fashion fanzine, this ‘exercise in social documentation’ evolved into a magazine that, alongside The Face, was considered the definitive ‘style bible’ of the 1980s. Accessories were an essential part of any clubber or fashion follower’s wardrobe and the 1980s launched the careers of some hugely influential accessories designers. The work of Judy Blame, Bernstock Speirs, Patrick Cox, Johnny Moke and collaborations with Sock Shop will be on display alongside the Filofax and Mulberry bags.

The Cloth, Summer Summit, 1985 Anita Corbin

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