LOOKBOOK Studio

10/11/2025

Recovering from our four-day fashion bender 🍿👠🥂🏩

Wow, what a week. We are still a bit at a loss for words, and sleep, so we’ll do our best to summarise (with an emphasis on short & sweet) all the glitz, glamour and glory we’ve experienced over the course of the last seven days. 👁️

What the team dubbed CPT’s unofficial fashion week kicked off with a screening of ’s short film Temple Road, hosted at 🎞️. Through ’s sensorial journey into his Indo-Kenyan heritage, the tone (and stage) was set for the cinematic performances that followed – all stories of Our Homecoming, told through craft. 🧶

After some bubbles at window launch party, we headed straight into the start of this year’s Confections x Collections – hosted in collaboration with at 🍰. Now, to say it was exceptional, would be the understatement of the year. So we’ll spare you the unjustifiable words (there’s a character limit to obey & loads of articles to read for the ‘meat’) and, rather, encourage you to swipe to experience a sweet slice of , , , and ’s shows 🤳.

Speaking of desert… as ‘cherry on top’ of the week, we had some (more) cake and a salon-style show of SCARAB – .studio’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection. Again, equally speechless.✨

To all our friends and mentors, the team of artisans and creators, and every individual who played a part in all of the above, we salute you. 💛 You didn’t just show up; you showed out. This continent speaks in power, voice, and undeniable talent.

Photogarphy by &

05/11/2025

In the mood 🍂

Okay, so we’ve JUST recovered from the post-Design Week hangover (thanks !)🥂😜. And so, naturally, our appetite for ‘cool things to see and do’ is back! 👁️

Next on our to-see list: Kasia Stefanczyk – ’s artist in residence – and the beautiful display of her ‘Light Paintings’ series. It’s everything but an afterthought. 🙂‍↔️

Make sure you swing by our homies at CURACIÓN House. 🪑

9 Orphan Street, Cape Town.
Tuesday - Friday (10am - 5pm) Saturday (10am - 2pm)

28/10/2025

Spotted (and snapped 📸) at Design Week CPT 🌈

Our studio has a new toy… 📷 and what better time to put it to the test, and play, than at ! 🤸

Here’s a little snap (pun intended) of ‘The Things We Love’ – an exhibition hosted at ’s 107 Castle Street space and curated by and – along with some of the meaningful home ‘things’ on display and ‘loved’ by creative practitioners in Cape Town. 🪑 We love them too. 💛

Spotted through the ‘eye’ of LOOKBOOK Studio (), and the lens of the new Fujifilm x Instax Mini Evo Hybrid Instant Camera – now available at . 🎞️

Featured:candle heirloom tomato candle, loved by
ringo vase, loved by
chair, loved by
stoneware lamp, loved by

17/10/2025

Make your own world🫸🟨🫷

Swipe to meet ‘Hand, made’ – Plascon’s 2026 Colour Forecast, curated by yours truly (LOOKBOOK Studio), and a few litres of paint! 🎨

Taking inspiration from the zeitgeist, popular culture, the natural world, the streets, and our homes; we (Plascon + LOOKBOOK Studio) crowned the colour forecast for 2026 ‘Hand, made’. A colour world that feels human. 🤲

We crafted four distinct colour ‘worlds’ that celebrates imperfection and individuality – the way we are... in contrast and in harmony. 🙂‍↔️ Butter + Sky, Land + Sea, Fashion + Candy, Orchard + Blooms; a mix of earthy tones with daring brights, subtle neutrals with expressive accents. And, of course, we had to add in a buttery yellow to the mix, not that we play favourites or anything. 😉

Head to plascon.co.za to explore the full forecast and shop your world, your way. 🌈

Concept, colour, creative & CI by LOOKBOOK Studio
Creative direction : Charl Edwards
Art direction & styling : Storm Ross
Photography : Michael Oliver Love
Photographic assistance: Tatyana Levana & Luke Chomse
Production assistance : Robyn Collyer, Murray Scottk, Jessica Kempton Jones
Retouching : Murray King
Design & curation : Jessica Kempton Jones
Project management : Robyn Collyer
a LOOKBOOK Studio production

16/10/2025

From swatch 🔸🟫◻️🟨 to space 🏠

Our journey with Plascon began a little more than a year ago – with the 2025 Colour Forecast, Hybridity. Fast forward, and we’re here again. Only this time, LOOKBOOK Studio took the lead 🙂‍↔️: concept, colour, creative and CI. Basically, the creation of the 2026 Colour Forecast campaign, titled… any guesses?

…At the heart of painting is the hand. 🫴 It’s part of every step – choosing shades, testing swatches, and finally bringing colour to the wall. Paint is not abstract or artificial; it’s tangible, textured, and deeply human. It’s real. It’s hand, made – a story told by you.

Visit plascon.co.za to shop, colour and make your world. 🌈

Concept, colour, creative & CI by LOOKBOOK Studio
Creative direction :
Art direction & styling :
Videography & editing :
Production assistance : , ,
a LOOKBOOK Studio production ()

15/10/2025

08/10/2025

Wake up and smell the coffee, people.👇
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It’s time for Design Week South Africa (). ⚠️

Kicking off tomorrow, the Jozi edition runs until Sunday 12 October with a city-wide programme of all sorts... exhibitions, studio and urban tours, product launches, installations, intimate panel discussions and hands-on workshops. 👏

Make sure you follow for the latest updates, announcements and event reveals. And a piece of advice? Attend it all, go to every workshop, see every studio, and make the most of this immersive four-day experience. You won’t regret it! 🙂‍↔️

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Poster design :

02/10/2025

L👁️👁️K!

Heading out for later? Be sure to swing by , a house and host of contemporary Zimbabwean art and artists. Tonight, they’re hosting ’s first solo show in Cape Town, titled The Colour “Gentle”. 📸

Go 👏 check 👏 it 👏 out 👏 !

129 Bree Street, Cape Town
2 Oct (on view until 5 Nov)
17:00 – 21:00

23/09/2025

A lookbook of lookbooks, spotted by LOOKBOOK 😉

The name (and caption title) says it all. We love looks, and books, and looks of books and books of looks… So I guess its expected that this memorabilia from Cafe Sofi (), grabbed our print-loving hearts. A beautiful (in words & pictures) tribute to their late mama Sophia Electra, and all her ‘likes’. We like them too! 💛

Make sure to swing by Cafe Sofi⁠ on 2 Park Road, Gardens, Cape Town⁠. ☕️
You won’t regret it. 🙂‍↔️

13/08/2025

Shaping rituals and your inner deity 🏺

Taking place at this month’s end, at full moon, at the cusp of Spring – ethical jewellery atelier, , will join (female) forces with tea practitioner, Jessica Bonin, and woman-owned studio, .ceramics, for a sacred ceremony... a guided morning clay workshop filled with intention and storytelling. ✨

Head over to Pichulik’s website (you know the way) to learn more and book your spot. 🧘‍♀️

🗓️ Saturday 23 August
⏰ 09 : 30am - 12 : 30pm
📍PICHULIK Atelier. 8 Watson Street, Cape Town City Centre
🎟️ pichulik.com

✂️ Snipped x .ceramics poster design

08/08/2025

Spot the 🌻s🌻u🌻n🌻f🌻l🌻o🌻w🌻e🌻r🌻

She’s the moment, our cover star, a repeated floral muse, bringer of joy... she is iconic, she is our sunflower. 💛

Swipe for your daily dose of ‘sunny’. ☀️

1. , Untitled (flowers) 🏺
2. Volume 17 (Harvest) cover image shot by 📸
3. ‘Five Sunflowers in a Vase’ animated by with sixteen oil pastel drawings 🖍️
4. Sunflowers wrapped in & a copy of Volume 17 (Harvest) sitting on a ‘bankie’ outside 🗞️
5. Andy Warhol posing with a giant sunflower in a series of photographs taken by Steve Wood in 1981 👱
6. ‘Van Gogh’s Flowers’ exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden with large-scale sunflower sculptures by French artist .and.concrete 🪜
7. Another Van Gogh moment captured by Editor-in-Chief, , in Amsterdam 🚲
8. JACQUEMUS SUMMER postcards from our forever muse – 💌
9. Floral installation by for a post wedding celebration at 🪑
10. Flower fields spotted by Editor-at-Large (and bestie) in Italy 🚗
11. Scene from ‘Can Carreras’, a short film by , via 🎬
12. archive stack topped with Issue no 21, June 1995 📚
13. Our little sunflower – volume 17 (Harvest) – taking a leisurely afternoon nap 👒
14. Special drop on its way out for delivery 🛵
15. Our in-house courier, Editor, and nr.1 sunflower fan aka 👨🏻
16. ‘Too Bright For The Windowsill’ by ✏️

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