I bought this wonderful top from a lovely lass called Margot Molyneux. She is the talented hands behind her clothing label Margot Molyneux. I was in Cape town a couple of months ago and I spotted it, tried it on, paid for it and then danced around in my head for the rest of the day like a child whose had too much sherbit and Oros mixed.
Margot Justine Molyneux lives in Claremont, Cape Town and works from home – by dream job. She started her label in 2009 and you can buy her stuff directly off her website or from Mungo & Jemima, Spence, Lily and soon from Nap (All details are on the website though in case you don’t know where these places are).
Margot tries to create clothes that are simple and easy to wear. Clothing that is not fussy, so while items can be worn by themselves, the wearer also has the option to add her own stamp. Whenever I look at her stuff I always want to wear it and then go for a long walk down a small street in Paris eating an ice-cream and greeting everyone that walks by while Vampire Weekend plays in the background. Maybe, seeing as this is my dream, they can be on a flatbed truck following me while I make my way through the city – yes why not!
I asked Margot if she is a pants or a dress person, she says she prefers pants – I think I’m with you on this one friend, pants all the way. I also wanted to know if she were forced to watch Days of our Lives or Bold and the Beautiful for the rest of her life, which one would it be. Yes this is a serious question ok and very important.
Answer: I think Bold and the Beautiful. You can miss episodes for months (years more like) and be sure to find Brooke with one of the Forresters. Makes for easy catch ups.
Agreed, that show is like an endless bowl of oats. You know what you’re getting all the way through and it never ends.
So you may be wondering why i’m telling you so much about Miss Margot, well it’s because I just love her stuff ANNNNNNND she has been kind enough to part with one of her beautiful sailor dresses for a giveaway. I’m loathed to give it away, but one of you pretties will soon be waltzing around in it, with an ice-cream in one hand and probably Steve Hofmeyer playing softly in the background – balls!
So you know what to do, leave me a comment and if you feel like it send Margot a mail telling her how awesome her stuff is, because it is x x xx Good luck friends.
Pictures taken by Mr Andrew Berry
i want it please please please
I’m going to Paris, therefor need that dress 😉 xx
I love her wondrous work!
I have one of her dresses – similiar, but the collar detail is different…could do with another!
Happy wearing! x
WOWzers friend face, what a giveaway! Your blog reminds me of telly fun quiz without the boo boo screen and everyone gets to go home with one of those ducks.
Well, I need a beautiful dress to wear during the last few warm weeks and when autumn/winter hits, I will wear it will stockings and a cute cardi. Sounds good, yes? Ok, holding thumbs!
i blogged about going to paris on my birthday dream wish list , so maybe if i get to win the dress my dream of going to paris in the spring will come true!
Yes please!
Dress = pretty
Margot = lovely
Jo in dress = happy
Pick me?
xx
That dress is a BIG WANT! I wore just black for years and years, now trying to wear some colour/non blacks, but for this dress I will wear it black. For sure.
Recently a pig of a man said I would make out with him by the end of the night… “because you are 31 da’ling” was his explanation for this rude comment. SO… I need this dress to look and feel young again!! please. thank you.
So so pretty!
Oh Em Geeeeeeeeee!!
What pretty clothes do I see here!
Tonight I’ll wish upon a pretty star to see these clothes on my body (very soon)!!
now only to find out where in jhb i can get it 🙂
yes please!
i love dresses!
dresses love me!
we would be a perfect match!
xxx
i consider the lucky pony competition as the universe’s last attempt to get me one of those bloody sailor’s dresses. Oh, how i have searched! I have mungo and jemimed, biscuit milled and labia marketed myself to death. However, the holy trinity of ‘product in stock’, ‘right colour+size’ and ‘me-having money’ never ever seem to coincide. I even tried to get on from you directly, but communications were thwarted by a lost phone and then an out of town sojourn on my side. It’s all starting to seem very eery and fateful, like those parts in The Lord Of The Rings where the seeming disaster is but an essential part in the fated and glowing victory and everyone dances and smiles forever. So basically, what I’m saying is that I should totally win this dress. In black. Size L. For the love of cheeses!
“It is written”
Ooooh, this dress brings makes me happy face!!
So much of the prettiness 🙂
Oh how I want, no, need that dress!!
woweee so so so so nice! x x I love.
It is destiny that this dress and I become lifelong friends…it is black and white, I love black and white, it is a dress, I wear dresses, it should be worn on a lovely sunny autumn day, I have a couple of those coming my way, it is sailor inspired, I have always wanted to “sail the seven seas so blue”, it would look fabulous with little red shoes, I happen to have the most gorgeous pair of patent red shoes…PREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETTTTTTTTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYY PLLLLEEEEEEEEEEAAASE (me rolling on the floor in a frenzied performance reminiscent of a 2 year-old throwing a tantrum as she is being dragged out of Disney World) x x x Oh beautiful dress!!!!
such a cute dress, and an absolutely splendid collar!
I’m not even going to attempt better comments than these lovely ladies 🙂
But wowzers what a beautiful dress!
Pick meeee!
Margot = fashion genius!
x
Dress, yes please! Ice cream, yes please! Steve.. not so much.
What size is the dress in?
Oh my…saw this dress somewhere on the interwebs couple of months ago…and fell in love.
Only recently discovered she was a local iKapa resident! So exciting!
…i love the way her simplicity still has a fun quirky element!
I think this really resonates with me…so would love to waft down the road…ice cream in hand…NOT listening to to Steve (sorry Steve)…
Margot – you are SO talented…really really
x
kati
It is sooo purrdy. Please oh please can I be a sailor on that pretty dress 😉
I would SOOOOOOOOOOO LOVE this dress!I am turning 30 in DEC and this would be the perfect dress for my Paris themed high tea I plan on having!!!!! I MUST have it! 🙂 pretty please!
It is almost my birthday (March 26). I have been a very good girl. I love Margot Molyneux’s work and I need something special to eat cake in.
You can’t beat the simple beauty of Margot’s clothing! I love their calm colours together with their striking cuts. Margot, I’m so looking forward to your winter selection!
Love it! We want Margot Molyneux in Durban! Would love to throw on a cute waist belt and some brouges with it and head to the promenade to feel like a sailor princess. x
Mary had a little lamb
His fleece was rather bland
Margot made a pretty dress
I’d wear it to impress
Michal wrote a cheesy poem
to win that pretty dress
cause when it comes to winning
I’m as keen as…
Charlie Sheen
I have been oogling that dress for the longest time on Spence but have resisted buying it because I am currently on a spending ban since I have to buy a wedding dress. I WAAAAAAANT it so much. I am going to Paris at the end of April and I thought that would really convince you to give it to me, but I see Leigh also has that as her arguement. Damn you Leigh, just kidding I don’t know you Leigh and I’m positive you’re really lovely :).
I promise to listen to non-stop vampire weekend all day long if I win this dress, I might even throw in a little bit of She & Him for the sake of hipster, happy tunes. It is so lovely. Don’t you wish that “iwantiwant” got you something?
Pick me Mr. Random Number Generator, pick me!
Oh! I love it!
Fingers crossed!!
hello lovely dress
I’ll have to find me a sailor to spot this dress with**
Me please 🙂 pretty please with sugar on top
Me please 🙂 yes please 🙂 pretty please with sugar on top
*dies at thought of owning something as outrageously gorgeous as this dress*
And yes, Bold and the Beautiful, totally like oats. I “catch up” every now and then during my summer holiday when they do the repeats during the day. Been doing it for ages and never missed a thing after a whole year of not watching.
All I want to know is what happened to Passions on etv. I miss that weird Timmy doll.
P.S. Those blue shorts. Yum yum yum.
ANGIE! I wish I had more time to read your blog and make posts on my blog again:( man alive my life is busy busy busy. I love this dress very much and I also love boats and if I win I’ll very surely go boating in it.
x
oh em gee what a clever, perfect-clothes-making lady! They are so good that I said oh em gee, so please can I win to cover my embarrassment? Please? x
Now, I don’t know if I need to win another pretty dress from a lucky pony giveaway… 😉
But come on, who could resist!
This is such a fun giveaway, and such a pretty dress! I’d pair it with sparkly flats and maybe a long gold necklace! It’d be fun for casual and formal stuff!
xoxo
Emma
eek! Adorableness. I am madly in love with that dress (that collar! swoon). I hope the random generator gods smile upon me.
I would ABSOLUTELY love the prettiest dress ever!! I am usually a ‘pants’ person too but Margot’s dresses are just too divine.
Yes thanks – i WIN! it’s my birthday – Beat that other comment makers.
yes please!!!!!!!! Never see her label before so thanks for introducing me!
Would look fantastic on me at the Royal Cape Yacht Club whilst I sip on ice cold white white before I set sail for a cruise around table bay…… 😉
hello
its me, of course I want the dress. So am holding thumbs that my number gets picked.
I am feeling lucky by the way.
Jackie
Shut up Leigh!
You can get your own in Paris ; )
in my worst Afrikaans-English accent: “vat are a very naais dres, ve piepel heer can like to haf vat dres i tel u.”
I would love to add it to my “a dress for everyday of the year” collection. i think this one would look fanastic on a warm durban tuesday afternoon – on the deck! 🙂
love the dress – great find
This is just beautiful
I LOVE THIS! Please please please pick me! 🙂
I’m trying to become more of a dress person.
novaisawesome@gmail.com
want want want!
Wow! If I won this dress, I would buy a quaint little sailing boat. I would paint it red and blue and have bunting and solar-powered fairy lights strung across it and I would sail the world. I would take a cat with me [his name will be Felix and he will be my sidekick] and I would read TS Eliot to him all day.
Want! Love!
LK
Gorgeous details on the collar…LOVE xo
Aah sheesh. 54 responses. Well make it 55. PLEASE I want to be lucky enough to win this treat. I have graduation coming up and this, quite frankly, would be the perfect dress for such an occasion!
oh goody! oh gosh!
oh how i want this!!
i would love it forever and give it a wonderful home 🙂
Wow! That’s so so so so so pretty! Like a lot a lot! Wish I could be a sailor!
Awesome prize! I have been eyeing that dress on Spence!