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Kumari Luxury Boutique
Cape Town, South Africa – January 15, 2009 – Epitomising all that is Lavish and Luxe, Kumari Luxury Boutique is the latest addition to Cape Town’s Fashion vibe. Showcasing the best South African Fashion Designers, the boutique offers an openness of extravagance if you are looking for something UNIQUE.
Nestled in Cape Town’s northern suburbs, Kumari Luxury Boutique serves the local shopper with a distinct taste for hard-to-find yet affordable designer pieces. Poised to be the go-to spot for fashion, the location is a prime spot for shoppers with variety in mind.
Additionally, the boutique offers a lavish menu of services that help clients refine their image, build their confidence, improve their social etiquette skills and master the art of entertaining. Services include Image Styling, Personal Shopper, Etiquette Refinement and Makeovers.
The boutique will soon launch its first-ever private shopping event, an initiative dubbed “High Style”. Locals get to hobnob with a slew of celebrities and stylish socialites at this private shopping soirée while previewing a unique selection of luxury. Wine and canapés will be served.
The boutique’s trading hours are 9am to 5pm from Mondays to Fridays, and 9am to 1pm on Saturdays.
Clients who cannot visit the store during regular trading hours can arrange an after hour private shopping session at no extra cost.
Contact:
Kumari Govender
5 High Street
High Street Shopping Village,
Rosenpark,
Durbanville
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IMAGE STYLING SERVICE
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Kumari Luxury Boutique – Image Stylist & Etiquette Consultant
Cape Town, South Africa – June 15, 2009 – Celebrities have personal stylists, and so can YOU! Get professional style advice in a friendly and affordable one-on-one style session. Kumari Govender can help you create a whole new look or refresh your current look to include this season’s hottest trends. All on a budget, off course. Whether you need a style makeover, a total wardrobe revamp or an updated look, Kumari can get it done quickly and with style.
Personal Branding:
This service begins with the client assessment form, which outlines your lifestyle needs. During this consultation, Kumari will define your personal style, determine your body shape, and identify clothing and accessories best suited to your body shape and form. Proper fit, tailoring and shopping tips for building a core wardrobe are discussed. A personalised electronic copy of your Style Plan is presented to you within 14 days.
Personalised Style Plan: R5 000 (incl. 2 Consultations)
Wardrobe Weed:
Kumari examines all the clothing and accessories in your existing wardrobe to determine what is appropriate to your defined image and style. Then she helps you identify and purge those items from past identity confusion. The purge aspect literally and figuratively provides open space for new possibilities. After that, she draws a list of items needed to build a core wardrobe that is 100% “you at your best”. And finally, she organises your closet to allow you to access your wardrobe and get dressed with ease. Materials such as hangers, clear shoe boxes and various storage containers can be purchased and installed at an additional cost after the closet has been assessed.
Wardrobe Weed: R7 500 (incl. 3 Consultations) excl. travel fee
Personal Shopper:
The Personal Shopping Service takes the guesswork out of where to shop, what to buy for and how much money to spend. This personal shopping service saves you time and money because Kumari pre-selects the items before the consultation. This is a very well planned and structured process whereby Kumari tries to maximise your existing wardrobe by complementing with new versatile purchases.
Personal Shopping: R10 000 (incl. 4 hours) excl. travel fee
Kumari makes shopping quick, easy and cost-effective by:
Pre-selecting clothing and accessories to your specifications, personal style and budget.
Broadening your existing wardrobe.
Maximising the impact of your clothing expense and creating multiple outfit variations.
Choosing stores and brands that enable you to create a distinct look that reflects your own style, compliments your body type, and is age and occasion appropriate.
Kumari strongly advises taking advantage of the Style Plan and Wardrobe Weed before the Personal Shopping service. This allows you to discover your true style, capitalise on your fashionable clothing, and build a wardrobe that reaps success.
Full Image Styling Package including your personalised Style Plan: R20 000
Kumari recommends a minimum budget of R10 000 for Personal Shopping. Kumari also provides the option for her clients to use their store cards at major retail stores. Tailored made packages are available on request – all services by appointment only.
Contact:
Kumari Govender
5 High Street
High Street Shopping Village,
Rosenpark,
Durbanville
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The Brand
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Kumari Govender: The Name Behind the Brand
Cape Town, South Africa – June 1, 2010 – Unique to the world of luxury services, Kumari Govender is at the forefront of everything stylish. A creative head of the lifestyle brand that bears her name – a brand that includes fashion, beauty and style events.
Using her expertise and impeccable taste, Kumari hosts an eclectic mix of style events that offer one on one expert advice, tips and trend updates on all things Fashion and Beauty. These intimate styling sessions are perfect for women who would like a total makeover or an updated look. The event usually concludes with an exclusive pop-up shop showcasing Kumari’s favourite brands.
Kumari is also the brainchild and creative driving force behind the StyleSociety which started out as a monthly newsletter back in 2009. With years of experience behind her, Kumari is a trusted and comprehensive source of the most up-to-date fashion, beauty and lifestyle news. She also champions talent through her regular style events showing her support for local up-and-coming South African Fashion Designers, most of whom she works very closely with.
Kumari (aka Cape Town Fashion in the social-sphere) is also one of the early pioneers of Pop-up Boutiques in South Africa and keeping with her unconventionality and innovativeness, and the quest to remain current; she has recently added Style Hunts and Online Fashion Parties to that list.
Currently, Kumari focuses her time on her seasonal Pop-up Boutiques that have made such waves in the Cape Town Fashion scene. StyleSociety Pop-up Boutique offers a new take on shopping. It is no surprise that it has become the highlight on the Cape Town Fashion calendar.
According to Kumari, “The concept of this exciting Pop-up Boutique is to offer a more exclusive alternative to shoppers, creating a pampered environment for shoppers to access the latest in luxury, designer clothing and accessories while they shop and meet designers.”
To keep up-to-date with Kumari, make sure you visit StyleSociety, her ultra-glossy fashion blog dedicated to sophisticated style mavens who have their finger firmly on the pulse of fashion. She publishes a creative mix of the latest fashion, beauty and lifestyle news that help readers develop their personal style.
Contact:
Kumari Govender
5 High Street
High Street Shopping Village,
Rosenpark,
Durbanville
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THE RECESSIONISTA by Kumari Govender
Cape Town, South Africa – May 1, 2010 – All curled up with my latest Cosmo, reflecting on the sluggish economy and tightening credit, this fashionista is going into serious withdrawal. I’ve heard a stream of catchphrases that describe the state of our global economy and recently stumbled upon an entirely apt neologism for fashion: recessionista. A humorous addition to the latest lexicon “recessionista” captures the de rigueur belt-tightening that appears to be the most recent trend.
As Style Bloggers around the globe tell us to embrace thrift as the new norm, I baulk at the thought of rummaging through piles of dusty troves. Call it a global reality check, with the country officially in a recession I too have embraced a new frugality with fashion. But there’s a silver lining in the dark Prada clouds…
At Kumari Luxury Boutique “Frugalness is the new black”. Our shoppers can be proud bargain hunters, after all, the recessionista is all about looking super stylish on a budget!
As personal shoppers, we favour being less extravagant by offering our clients excellent discounts during their private shopping sessions. Recessionistas can enjoy a glass of bubbly and canapés while browsing our latest designer pieces and still be super stylish all on a budget, off course!
Contact:
Kumari Govender
5 High Street
High Street Shopping Village,
Rosenpark,
Durbanville
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