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Repeat After Me Repeat After Me
PHOTOGRAPHED BY WARREN HEATH WRITTEN BY ROBYN ALEXANDER
Step into the Skinny laMinx store on Bree Street in Cape Town, and you’re instantly transported into designer Heather Moore’s colorful, multipatterned world. In one section, a cushion cover in a signature Skinny laMinx print such as Brancusi Stripe accessorizes a chair upholstered in another linear Moore design called Weft.
This corner of the living room in Heather Moore’s Cape Town apartment features a linocut, “The Same but Different,” by her husband, South African artist Paul Edmunds (pauledmunds.co.za).
Heather Moore at work in her studio. Just visible on the cane chair behind her, which is from South African furniture retailer Weylandts (weylandts.co.za), is a bright green cushion in Skinny laMinx’s ZigZag print in Brazil (skinnylaminx.com). Asked about the origins of the name “Skinny laMinx,” Moore says, “The short answer, and one that everyone can understand, is that it’s a nickname for our skinny little Siamese cat, Monkey. The long answer, which is a little more culturally specific, is that it’s a slightly mangled version of the playground chant, ‘Skinnymalinky long legs/ Big banana feet,’ and also, Skinnymalinks is cute, but Skinny laMinx is sexier.”
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