Scandinavian Fashion

Meeting the press: Nina Jarebrink

The inspiration for Nina Jarebrink’s F/W collection was the 1946 film noir classic The Killers staring the glamorous Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins. 

“The feeling in the collection is sensual and dangerous,”  Nina informed me during a little tête-à-tête held in a suitably glamorous suite on the second floor of Stockholm’s Diplomat Hotel on ritzy Strandvägen.  (tête-à-tête  is about one-third of my total French vocabulary.)

Ms.  Jarebrink actually comes originally from Sweden, but lives in Norway.  She moved there some 11 years ago and has no immediate plan to shift elsewhere: “I have a Norwegian fiance,” she explained. 

For her meeting with the local Swedish press, the lanky designer was wearing some high-waisted black pants infused with gold metallic glitter, and a delicate transparent silk blouse.  Definitely sensual and dangerous.  She likes a high-waist because it gives an attractive silhouette.  Many of the items in her F/W collection are infused with gold glitter, including several of the wool sweaters.

“I love gold, but hate silver,” she said. 

Jarebrink is one of Norway’s most successful independent designers, represented in faraway places like Japan, South Korea, the Caribbean islands and South Africa.  She will have a runway show in Capetown, South Africa in August. Photo: David Bartal