Product is Designed and Developed by Pieter Lategan and Anton Visser
Thank you my friend Wouter for your support. Please come and visit again. I am open from 11am - 4pm on Sundays.
Please remember if you have no need for the shirt anymore, you can give or sell it as pre-loved clothing, or I would also like to see that it is been recycled.
Sunday was something different, something new, and some exciting here at my home. It can also be like a boot shop?
I got three people to come and visit me today; it was very nice to see the people coming. Some expected something different, but the people were kind and friendly.
They interact very well; this concept is very new for them. Strange enough, they did not take pictures of me or my art; I told them they could.
I made R120 out of the kitchen and Wouter bought the shirt; he liked it.
My apartment became a gallery (now open to the public every Sunday from 11:00 to 16:00), and I am the Live Performing Living Artst/Product Designer/Product Developer.
The Kitchen. Photo Pieter Lategan
The Work Station. Photo: Pieter Lategan
Lategan Fan Pieter. Photo: Pieter Lategan
All My Drawings: Photo Pieter Lategan
Food Corner. Photo: Pieter Lategan
The Clothing Shop. Photo: Pieter Lategan
Sold. Wouter Bought this Shirt for R400
Pieter Lategan Shop - Photo by Pieter Lategan
The shopping experience you get on my blog. This is what you are going to see: how people buy stuff. You have to market your products so that people will buy them; you have to tell them this is what your art looks like.
The Interview
Wouter and André were thinking of a new interesting concept. Andre feels South African artists don't have enough freedom to do their art.
This interview is also part of the shopping experience my friends will have in the shop.
Tomorrow will be a big day for me, I am starting to sell my art. I tried this and that, and I was fed up.
I have this stoep in front of my living and bedroom which I never used. Now I am using it to exhibit my work. I will show more pictures about this stoep I have.
Most of the work that I now have is pencil sketches. This is eight years of working, for hours. I really enjoyed it because it kept me busy during lockdown in Covit. So there are a lot of memories of people who died, worried about, and I was worried about this flu which I had.
These are photos that I took today while I was getting ready for tomorrow.
Torso (Mannequin) Photo: Pieter Lategan
Wood Canvas - Photo: Pieter Lategan
The Product Designer Who Only Has to Empathize Did His Job.
Enrique Iglesias - Addcited (2003)
Humans, what is empathy? The question is, do our friendly robots know and understand how to work with a person who has a problem?
You let him speak and you only empathize. That is how you do your job. Listen and don't say a word you only give empathy. If he is the job worth, you can't solve the problem for him, then he spends hours wasting your time and money, then you could do that job yourself. Don't give him a smoke break. Let him run but keep him under your eye. Let him do what he wants to do. You say nothing don't tell him: "That is wrong, you have to do that. I am not sure if you are the right guy." No, you don't do that to a human being.
You leave him and listen so that he can solve his own problem. You should already teach him how to do that; that is why you only have to listen and empathize. If he doesn't know how to solve it, I am afraid you did not do your job. - Pieter Lategan 2024
The invention of mannequins is unknown to the human being. Records show that there were mannequins found in Egypt in 1300 BC.
Life-size mannequins come to life in the mid-18th century. They were used in the military to do nuclear tests on what the effect would be on humans in the 1950s. In the 17th century, doctors used mannequins to study the medical anatomy of pregnant women for childbirth.
Mannequin head! Paper mache tutorial
How to Prepare A Mannequin for Draping | Sewing with Stefanie
Zita Fabiani
Development and manufacturing of sustainable products, including recycled products, in the fashion industry are important for the environmental and social impact they have. The competitive fashion world is strategic and innovative, keywords to be ahead of the development of products.
When starting to create, the blog can easily be used as a recording platform or a drawing board to memorise unique ideas captured from the internet.
When you observe your immediate surroundings, including your house, garage, garden, and dustbins, you can find materials to start building the product (mannequin). Recycle as much as you can. Be environmentally friendly!
Google says: "The fashion industry produces up to 100 billion garments a year and as much as 92 million tons of clothing went into landfills." Start now to recycle and be friendly to our mother earth, who feeds us fresh food in our stomachs to keep us healthy.
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (Official Music Video) - 1987
"I am going to leave you with a thought; it is OK." - Pieter
Miyake was born in Hiroshima, Japan. When he was only seven years old, he lost his mother to the atomic bomb at Hiroshima (9 August 1945), which he survived and also can remember.
His clothing designs were technology-driven, and that was what he was well known for. He was also famous for the design of Steve Jobs, a friend of his, the black turtlenecks he wore.
Evening dress
Designer Issey Miyake Japanese
fall/winter 1992–93
Tokujin Yoshioka has created an installation of see-through bodies as part of a large-scale exhibition of fashion designer Issey Miyake
- Written by:
Pieter Lategan (June 2024)
Shayne Ward - No Promises (10 April 2006)
To Riaan:
I remember the night you came and visited—no shoes, your tone hurt the previous night when we were on the mobile phone. This song is playing in the air tonight when you enter my apartment. You touched my hand and I felt your breath next to mine.
I had a lot of meetings when I worked, and one lady who worked with me always sat and drew figures while in a meeting, sometimes she just drew lines and circles, I thought, in the beginning, it was boring, but today, I am busy with the TEFL course, they give it a name. This part of learning and they call kinaesthetic. So if you draw and listen you are not always bored, you are just busy learning. Never know that...
Lay a whisper on my pillow Leave the winter on the ground I wake up lonely, this air of silence In the bedroom and all around
Touch me now, I close my eyes And dream away
It must have been love, but it's over now It must have been good, but I lost it somehow It must have been love, but it's over now From the moment we touched, 'til the time had run out
Make-believing we're together That I'm sheltered by your heart But in and outside I turn to water Like a teardrop in your palm And it's a hard winter's day I dream away
It must have been love, but it's over now It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without It must have been love, but it's over now It's where the water flows It's where the wind blows
It must have been love, but it's over now It must have been good, but I lost it somehow It must have been love, but it's over now From the moment we touched, 'til the time had run out
Yeah, it must have been love, but it's over now It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without It must have been love, but it's over now It's where the water flows It's where the wind blows
but it's over now No, no, no (It must have been love) (But it's over now) but it's over now No, no, no
What is the message of the song "It Must Have Been Love"?
It's a song about lost love, regret, and the feeling that the person singing it could – and should – have fought harder to keep the relationship alive. “It must have been good / but I lost it somehow” – the brutally wry understatement in that line has the gallows humour of the truly devastated.10 Dec 2019
Then hopefully start to facilitate as soon as possible.
It is 1:26 AM this morning. I went to bed around half past eight, and now I am wide awake. I must say I had a few glasses of white semisweet wine, which put me in a state just to eat and go and sleep.
I got this mini mat a year or so ago, and it was just lying in the studio. I thought to make a shirt on it and started around Thursday. It was not a huge success, and I still need to work on it.
Today, Anton and I went to MetroLifestyle where we buy our fabrics from. It is about 2 km from our house here in Reagan Park. We looked at shweshwe fabric to make our jackets. That was what I had in mind for my jacket which we want to wear to the modeling school fashion show next week.