Get the Coca-Cola Light® Look

It’s competition time and this prize will appeal to all fashionistas for every trendy woman in Mzansi. Coca-Cola Light® have just launched their new Marc Jacobs packaging and have teamed up with Grazia to bring you this fabulous competition.To stand a chance of winning, Grazia SA readers will need to answer an easy question via sms in Issue 57, on shelf from tomorrow 5 July 2013 ... 

In the dazzling prize, you will find the Coca-Cola Light® 330ml collection designed by Marc Jacobs, inspired by the ‘80s. ‘90s and ‘00s; a pair of Marc Jacobs sunglasses; a Coca-Cola Light® Sparkling Together with Marc Jacobs key ring and Marc Jacobs Oh, Lola! 100ml Eau De Parfum.

"As Olympic shoppers in need of refreshment, it goes without saying that, here at Grazia HQ, we love the collaboration with Coca-Cola Light® and international fashion designer Marc Jacobs. And we're so thrilled to be able to share the Marc Jacobs fashion experience with our readers" says Danielle Weakley, editor of Grazia SA.

The Coca-Cola Light® Sparkling Together with Marc Jacobs limited edition 330ml, 500ml and 2L collection is now available in South Africa.

Happy 1st Birthday Grazia SA!

Break out the champers and grab yourself a slice of red velvet to join in the celebration – tomorrow SA’s first fashion and news weekly celebrates its 1st ever Birthday. And to mark the occasion, Grazia South Africa has enlisted the country’s most talked-about and ultra-stylish celebrity to grace the cover of their birthday issue ...

Hitting newsstands from tomorrow (10 May 2013), Bonang Matheba, the queen of local social media, TV and radio talks to Grazia's Mokgadi Seabi about her reinvention in the special 50th issue of the magazine, which was shot in Sandton by star photographer Aubrey Jonsson ...

Grazia South Africa editor Danielle Weakley says Bonang was the obvious choice not just because of her trailblazing style which has seen her garner countless awards but because the star, who juggles a multitude of gigs from Top Billing and Clash of the Choirs to her popular slot on YFM, is one of the hardest working and most astute young women in the entertainment world today.

“Bonang is everywhere this year – And its only May! With a line-up of TV shows, a slew of weekly appearances, several magazine covers and hundreds of thousands of followers, we predict that her entry on the Forbes List is only the start of her 2013 tour de force” says Weakley.

But what would be a birthday celebration be without a surprise? The birthday edition is a bumper mag – and one of only two issues Grazia will produce as a perfect-bound collectors’ issue. In a further nod to the globally savvy, thirty-something urban readers (who avidly buy Grazia every week to find out what they can add to their wardrobes), the fashion and news weekly has unveiled a brand new website www.graziadaily.co.za and an online Grazia shop at www.spree.co.za/grazia where you don’t even need to leave your desk to shop the looks straight from the magazine.

“We truly believe in the power of Grazia as a 360-degree brand and the idea of being able to shop the mag appeals not just to our brand ethos but also to our fashion-smart, digitally-savvy readers.”

Over just 50 issues, the 21st syndicated edition of this weekly glossy magazine has single-handedly revolutionized the local publishing industry since its launch in May 2012, with other publications following on its stylish heels to cover fashion on a weekly basis.

Out every Friday, Grazia South Africa has quickly gained a reputation for bringing news with shoes and speed with style, week after week.

A Little Bit of GAP goes a long way ...

Last night I attended the first GAP Styling Sessions event hosted by Grazia's Fashion Editor Kirsty Stoltz. The event took place at the GAP outlet in Sandton City inviting bloggers, readers and tastemakers in the Gauteng area. 

The Evening started with awesome Style tips while we sipped on delicious 4th Street Wine. 

Our Mission for the Evening: 

Find a Pair of GAP Jeans to take home and style ... ♥

Top: Forever New

Jacket: Forever New

Jeans: 'Sexy Boyfriend' Cut from GAP

Bag: Forever New

Shoes: Aldo

Alice band: Forever New

Pearl Necklaces: Sass Diva

Bangles: Assortment from Topshop, Miglio, Sass Diva,  Forever New, Mr Price

Fellow Fashion Blogger Kelly Ross (Left) and Me

With so many styles to choose from in various washes and colours it was tough deciding, but I ended up settling for a "Sexy Boyfriend" Pair of GAP Jeans (wondering if they came with a complimentary Sexy Boyfriend ... ) 

Thank you GAP SA and GRAZIA SA, it was a fun evening! My new Gap Jeans look and fit Amazingly and they will be featured in many outfit posts to come!

~ ♥ ~

Grazia Bumper Christmas Issue

December usually includes Amazing Bumper Magazine issues, and Grazia has one, jam-packed to make your Holiday Season that much more Festive! 

The Grazia Bumper Christmas Issue includes:

A Bumper Christmas Fashion Charts

12 pages "Great Grazia Christmas Gift Guide", which includes lists for everyone in your life. "Drop Heavy Hints List" for YOU; "Sock-free Zone" for him and more.

After Dark Dressing – Urban Cocktail Wear for the festive season

Bedazzle Your Beauty Look – With inspiration from the Fendi and Chanel catwalks

A Bumper Fragrance Charts

Festive Foodie Gifts - from DIY Limoncello to pistachio and cranberry star cookies

Designer Christmas Stockings – We asked top local designers and industry insiders to make Grazia Christmas stockings

Trend: The New 2012 Party Rules – What to wear, what to bring, what to drink, what to talk about, what to Tweet

Local is Lekker Festive Décor – Handmade craft, Highveld home, plus the best crackers, baubles and décor treats

Bumper Christmas Entertainment Special – what to watch, read, listen to and PVR over Christmas

Plus an exclusive interview with Kim Kardashian.

So what are you waiting for? ... Get yours today!

Grazia South Africa's very First Local Cover Star

It's been local publishing’s burning question since Grazia South Africa arrived on our shores in May: which local celebrity would be the first to grace the cover of the country’s first weekly news and fashion magazine? 

With Grazia South Africa covering not just Fashion but Current Affairs, Beauty, Lifestyle and Entertainment, the very first home-grown cover star needed to have the ultimate blend of star power and style to enthrall the magazine’s globally savvy, thirty something, urban professional female reader ...

And today, readers of the 21st edition of the magazine will find out that the ever-stylish singer, songwriter, Idols judge and radio personality Unathi Msengana will make history as Grazia South Africa’s very first local cover star.

Shot on location on the streets of Sandton by Aubrey Jonsson and Mbali Soga, the 33-year old personality and mother-of-two talks Grazia through her favourite styles of theIdols season, as well as how she got into such great shape after the birth of her baby.

Grazia South Africa editor Danielle Weakley says the two-time SAMA nominated artist (who has shared the stage with international superstars including Youssou N’Dour and John Legend) was selected because of her enduring fashion appeal and warmth on screen. “I just love Unathi – she’s been firmly in the public eye since the start of the Idolsseason making week after week of savvy (local!) sartorial choices, which is no mean feat. Plus she addresses the contestants – and anyone she meets - with warmth, wit and grace.”

Long a supporter of local fashion (she has often been snapped wearing the couture creations of designers including Gavin Rajah, Asanda Madyibi and David Tlale), Unathi follows in the footsteps of pop superstar Rihanna, who was featured on the cover of the launch issue of the magazine.

Intriguingly, Unathi was also featured on the cover of Grazia South Africa's launch issue under the headline, “Unathi: Move over J.Lo, SA Idols returns!”.

Comments Danielle Weakley, “Yes, I guess we knew even back then that she was going to be our girl – she stepped out in this fantastic form-fitting yellow dress the week before we went to print with our launch issue - and it was the perfect local fashion start. If I remember correctly, there was even a helicopter in the background!”

Out every Friday, Grazia South Africa launched in May this year and has quickly gained a reputation for bringing news with shoes and speed with style, week after week.

The magazine is aimed at a globally savvy, 30-something urban professional woman who reads monthlies, but wants more.

Info via Brand Ambassadors