TIE ME UP, TIE ME DOWN # 2: Save The Tie, Save a Child designer outfits made from neck ties

Three designs by Marshal Enyioma, fashion designer and owner at 

Perfect Touch Garments, Cape Town

BY ERIKA

As sponsoring photographers, we photographed some of the designs by Saskia Wicomb and Marshal Enyioma for Save the Tie,Save a Child  fashion show, on a very cold but bright winters day at The Garage on Mhondoro farm on Blaawklippen Road outside Stellenbosch.  

These designers with Hein Smit, were asked to use neck ties to create beautiful outfits such as the ones we have pictured here.

Hair styling and make-up for the ten models models were done at Kuif 53 in Dorp Street, Stellenbosch before setting off to a freezing cold workshop where they were posed among old cars and metal shaping equipment. And not one complaint! 

The Save The Tie, Save a Child event which is being held on  27 June and 28 June at Emo Adams’ The All Star Theatre in Brackenfell is part of Mrs Cape Town Chantal Whitthun’s fund rasing project for RoleModels Foundation and the children of Imfundo Project.

To see the rest of the collections, book your tickets at Computicket and join the Save the Tie, Save a Child Facebook-page.

And watch this Die Burger video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ8LxGJZy3g

Design by fabric architect, Saskia Wicomb of Stellenbosch

Models receiving the royal My Tie treatment at Kuif 53 Dorp salon in Dorp Street, Stellebosch
before the shoot

Couture and cars in The Garage on Blaauwklippen Road, Stellenbosch

INSIDE OUT: Reflections of Stellenbosch

By Martin Van Niekerk

If you really love what you do, it won’t feel like work.

That was definitely the case recently when Erika and I spend several days walking the streets of Stellenbosch on assignment, looking for images that align with a particular company's branding. 

We felt like tourists strolling through town, absorbing impressions and features of the Boland town that you otherwise fail to spot for being in too much of a hurry.  As our eyes became adept at seeking out minute detail and layered reflections, I started capturing images outside the brand-related brief. 

Here are some images that caught my eye. 

Ou Kollege building across the road from the Oude Werf Hotel in Church Street

Window shopping in Church Street

Across from Morkelhuis in Ryneveld Street

Window shopping in Church Street

Window shopping in Church Street

Geometric shapes repeated in the De Wet Centre

Bookmarks , De Wet Centre

Night and day in the courtyard of the De Wet Centre

 Aspects of Asia in Simonsplein Centre, Plein Street

PORTRAIT OF A PRINT MAKER

Artist Leonora Van Staden of Stellenbosch

I recently did a portrait shoot for award-winning Stellenbosch print artist, illustrator, lecturer and recently furniture designer, Leonora Van Staden in a beautiful historical building in the town centre. This is one of the images.

OFF-BEAT OFFERINGS AT NICE STUFF IN STELLENBOSCH

If you are in the business of selling beautifully designed and crafted objects then that is what your website should show. Nice stuff needs to look nice.  Always!

That much visual artist and owner of Nice Stuff in Dorp Street, Stellenbosch, Leonora van Staden knows for a fact. So, to make sure the slightly off-beat designer objects and pieces of furniture in her shop were shown in the best possible light, she called in the professionals – me! 

And that is how we managed to spend a beautiful summer day in Die Bos cataloguing the objects and photographing the interior of the shop which is situated in one of the town’s many historic buildings.

Afterwards we celebrated a job well done with an ice-cold Stellenbrau beer on the stoep of the Stellenbosch Hotel.

Lekker!

Here is the final result. 

The front page of the Nice Stuff website

Some of the designer objects available at Nice Stuff, Stellenbosch

Funky furniture

Leather luggage and satchels