OneLove | Elizma Le Roux
Love Child
Elizma Le Roux, was born in Robertson and arrived here in Hermanus 19 years ago after leaving Cape Town behind! Elizma is a passionate person with a lot of love, light and fashion advice to give to anybody who graces her store OneLove – The Fashion Shack.
See what this local lady had to say to us…
Describe yourself in 3 words…
Ok, I asked my kids for this answer and they said: “Weird, fun and loving!” I would say, eccentric, dedicated and unconventional!
My three favourite things in the world are…
3 Favourite things in the world are, OneLove, my kids and travel.
What made you decide to open One Love The Fashion Shack?
OneLove was opened with a deep sense of passion. I backpacked through Spain and saw colour, saw girls and women dress to suit their personalities and express their creativity – I was inspired!
I fell in love with a shop called Desigual, everything was so fresh, so colourful, so positive. I did not find OneLove, it found me! I started small and bought an over-locker second hand, sourced fabric and started to design my own individual range filled with passion!
If you are not in the store what are you doing?
If I am not in OneLove (hehe) I am all over – I am buying food (reality), driving kids around, making and designing clothes from my home and from my mom’s home. I am also overseas sourcing clothes and accessories about 3 times a year.
The best part of owning OneLove is?
The best part of my little shop is honestly my clients. A whole new journey has for opened up for me, I get to meet the most crazy, fabulous and loving souls daily! I have never come across a town with such a mixture of souls.
I learn something new from young and old! I have a client of 80 something years old, buying the most funkiest teen clothes. She says she doesn’t care, she is to old to care and she never had the guts to wear tights with ducks on them, but now she just lives her life! It is so Inspiring to me to have this little shop!
Your thoughts create your tomorrows, pick them wisely!
Hermanus is…
Creative and dynamic. It is a community where the people still care. Here we truly are still involved, it is not only beautiful from the outside but the people that live here, their beauty shines through and reflects in our little, awesome town! I am very proud to be part of this town and to be able to play a little role in the growth of Hermanus.
I love Hermanus in the…
I just love Hermanus for all its seasons. It is not Hermanus and the seasons, it is what is inside your heart. As you as a soul move through your challenges and seasons, so you enjoy the seasons of nature, and so you grow. We have everything here around us that is profoundly beautiful, but we first have to see beauty on the inside to experience it from the outside.
My favourite place in Hermanus ……
Besides OneLove must be Onrus Beach – to watch Dylan and his friends surf or have fish and chippies at the Kiosk on a late Saturday afternoon after I closed my shop (there are so many favourite places, really only one? I can go on and on and on…
I wish I knew then what I do now about…
Hearing MY OWN VOICE and following MY OWN TRUTH. Now I follow my bliss and my passion. I worry less about what others think or say and love me first!
My best memories are…
I try to live in the NOW – as far as possible, but I had a moment last year where I met Ketut, the real medicine man, from the movie Eat Pray Love in Bali. There was no pretence around this old man, he hardly remembered the movie, he was so authentic and love just oozed out of his existence, this touched me deeply. I had a profound moment when he said to me: “You know the light, what you do with your life now – it makes your heart smile! And yes Ketut was right – my heart smiles!”
Life is really a journey, there is no but no destiny, live your own journey and take your eyes off each other. Create your own magic every day!