The mood of Cape Town

Lis Watkins preserved memories of her childhood in Cape Town and transferred color patterns and the spirit of indigenous freedom to the fabrics.

The aged colonial style is next to the primitive thirst for life, the sounds of a jamboree, and the bright colors that are woven with large beads into necklaces, earrings, and bracelets.

Fading contrasts

The fusion of cultures in the world continues amid growing interest in the East and Africa. While people from tribes are emigrating to cities, Europeans are going to places where there is no hot water or cell phones, all in order to see with their own eyes the lives of others. Those who are so different from us. Those who are so similar to us.

Animalistic prints and tai-dai

The textured velvet with an animalistic print, repeating the skin of a crocodile, white rhinoceros, ghost frog, turns out to be unexpectedly soft to the touch thanks to the viscose.

The imitation of tai-dai techniques enhances the feeling that the fabrics were brought to the metropolis from places where people believe not in progress and civilization, but in the spirits of ancestors and gods sending rain or drought.

Colonial style

At the same time, Cape Town is also a European classic, tightened in a strict corset English rose, Victorian bordeaux. Clear lines, as if repeating the cave painting of Africa. Flower ornaments of colonial style. Impossible, unexpected, crazy - and therefore, an attractive combination.

Variety of technologies

The design unusual for classic collections was transferred to velvet by digital printing. Thanks to the embroidery of dense cotton with hinges, it was possible to achieve identity with the original African fabrics and folkloric patterns, obtained by painstaking handwork. Batik and Ikat in the collection are combined with floral patterns that refer to the female part of the tribe and to flowers blooming after the rains.

Key accents

The main emphasis was on embroidery from the voluminous threads of cotton and viscose, as well as a combination of dense satin, soft velvet, upholstery chenille, natural cotton and linen, which fully reflect the spirit of African culture. At the same time, all attention was concentrated on details and general mood. Thus, Cape Town is the result of the way the indigenous style influences the global world trends.

Cape Town Palette

Cape Town is difficult to break down into separate colors - its character dictates other rules, so it is not shades, but palettes.

Bay leaf

The focus of nature itself, the delicate green as a symbol of life, the green crowns of trees that stand out against the background of the desert plains of Africa.

Blue spark

Unguaranteed tanzanite, sparkling azure, the gaze of blue eyes, which look uninterruptedly in brown, ocean waves crashing on the shore. Blue and brown are a spectacular and commercially sought after combination.

Hot coals

Ochre and umber, hot coals, flames, ritual dances, copper rings, red clay, pictures on the faces of women of the tribe. Typical African palette and sharp contrast.

Lime twist

Graphic patterns in the original sound, gray and black with lime accents: a bold solution dictated by the requirements of modern design.

Linen sack

Cape of Good Hope, rocky shore, wind and stone. An emptiness in which there is nothing and everything. A long-awaited rain that fell on the hot ground. Natural colors that will create the right accents in almost any interior, breathing in peace and quiet.

Salmon scale

Dawn in Cape Town, pink pearl, turquoise surf. Dreams about Africa that someone sees under the gray Nottingham sky. An experimental combination of tender pink and dark green tones.

Spice trail

Royal Protea, the heart of the desert, branched patterns on the fabric, cardamom and ginger. Hot afternoon in a city that has become the heart of South Africa.