Safashiongirl: mom

Happy Mother's Day

I went through a bunch of old photos today of my mother. I love the magic of photographs, it makes me want a polaroid camera and a permanent marker stat. I want to make memories and stick them away for my own daughter to look at one day. I miss the photo album!

My mother is so beautiful and glamourous but she's so modest about her life. She studied Drama at Wits University. She played the nurse on stage in Romeo and Juliet and had barely any lines but the critics praised her in the review. She sang on Pop Shop in 1976, a sort of Top of the Pops tv show for South Africa. She even made the newspaper for just hanging out on Clifton. She was gearing up to launch a fashion line in the 80s but the factory didn't get the clothes done in time for the big order. I'll finish what you started momma. Thank you for everything. x

Graduating from Wits

This is what made the news in the 70s. They credited her with the wrong name, I wonder where Claudia le Grange is now.

Being a hottie in Hawaii

Mom's 80s fashion line. She and my aunt totally did the Flintstones thing before Jeremy Scott.

Mom holding me in the California sun

boyfriend's mother

Possesion Obsession - Jean Paul Gaultier's Fragile

There are a few products/items I have a cult obsession with. Jean Paul Gaultier's Fragile fragrance is one of these. The Fragile campaign was intoxicating; I'm a pale gal that has resisted tanning and when I saw how enchantingly milky the model looked next to super bronzed Aztec sun men I was down with being in her club.

That goldilocks guy looks like he's writing a sonnet about her thigh in his head but I'm kinda disappointed with inexplicably dreadlocked guy, his focus is too non-committal for my liking.

But hold on a sec! You're telling me that the fragrance is housed in a gold glitter snowglobe with a muse inside!? I had been waiting for this like a bag lady at a bus stop. Sparkly and funtional is serious business (this doesn't apply to most sparkly things, like say vampires). The scent is a bonus, it has mysterious tuberose notes which has satisfying depth to it. I love switching perfumes to go with seasons/holidays/events because it instantly evokes that time whenever I wear it again. x

80s

Why my mother is amazing

First off, my mom recognized the benefits of hoarding old clothes and accessories. Secondly she produced a daughter who shares her shoe size. I wore my mom's 1980s Michael Jackson LA Gear sneakers today. I love them so much.