skattieTV TRAILER 4 UPCOMING WEBISODES, feat. CLIVE RUNDLE, TIAAN NAGEL & CAREN WALDMAN

I went up to Jozi a couple of weeks ago for a bit of a touchdown, some events and the promise of free food and booze. Whilst I was up there my friend Sandiso and I hooked up with a couple of designers, namely Clive Rundle, Tiaan Nagel and Caren Waldman from Two, we picked their brains about their businesses and all things SA fashion. This here is a short trailer of the upcoming skattieTV webisodes featuring those conversations.

PARTY PIX /// WOMEN'S DAY EVE, AT THE RESERVE AND AT THE CRAZY WHITE BITCHES ANNIVESSARY

As kind of usual with these morning posts, i just got back home from a rather hectic party night, and i am looking forward to passing out. Last night I went to The Reserve to check out the opening of their new brasserie, naturally I had shitloads of fun, made even better by the open bar. I fucking love free booze. Later after the opening I went to The Waiting Room to check out the girls from Crazy White Bitches's first year annivessary party, and of course that rocked. The pics above are a mix of those two parties, definitely in no particular order, so i'll leave it to you to figure out which ones were taken at The Reserve and which were taken at The Waiting Room. Anyway, pics and parties aside, today is Women's day. I was kind of planning on writing a bit of a rant about issues that affect women in our country. Or rather issues that bug me about the way the female role is viewed in certain parts of our society. And let's be honest here, there are a shitload of men and women who believe some fucked up shit and entertain the idea of femalekind as inferior, which i find to be some really weird bullshit. Anyway, women issues are kind of close to my heart, not really a major revelation that. Besides, almost all my friends are women (note to self: sounds a bit too much like "I'm not racist, some of my best friends are black"), and work wise it's kinda important to me that my bosses be female, I've only had two male bosses in my entire life and both situations didn't end well. for some fucked up reason I don't do very well under male authority, kinda sexist I know, but it's the truth, male bosses don't bring out the best in me. Anyway, whatever, it is 7h00am and i am kind of fucked and i wanna pass out, so it's probably not the best time to write the rant about my issues with sexism in SA, so i'll leave it for now. Hopefully when I wake up a little later today I will revisit this post and write something that borders on insightful.

THE SHOWS: KLÛK CGDT AT CITY HALL

When it comes to fashion there's a couple of things that I have a massive weakness for, firstly it's older girls. You might not guess it from looking at this blog because I hardly ever publish pics of older girls but I really love them. I'm talking about them girls way past 40 but tanned (for the melanin deprived ones) and pulled and stitched and rocking bodycons so short they remind me of that line by Patsy from Ab Fab, "You know, one snap of my fingers and I can raise hemlines so high, that the world is your gynaecologist". I find something really special about a girl (a womyn if you're a feminist) who refuses to let go of her youth, refuses to buy into that "grow old gracefully" vibe. I know they're not everybody's vibe, but I love them, and in about 10 years time when I'll be 44 I  hope to be surrounded by them in the middle of the dancefloor downing tequila and indulging in occasional one night stands with people in their 20's. The second thing I have a weakness for is a massively produced almost theatrical fashion show, and the Klûk CGDT show at City Hall on the opening night of fashion week was one of those shows. Admittedly, all of that drama can distract from the actual clothes, sometimes to the designer's advantage, although i must admit I don't think that was the case here. But fuck my opinion, I also went around asking a lot of fashion types what their favourite show was, and this one consistently came up in the top 3, so there.