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Stockholmers took advantage of a much-appreciated sunny day on Sunday for a pilgrimage to the frozen lakes. The clothing style in favor on Liljeholmen Lake was more functional than fashionable, though some nifty retro-baby carriages could be viewed. Insulated pants in dark blue or black are not necessary, but quite wonderful. Popular means of locamotion [...]
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Why I don’t have a photo of Noomi Rapace
The 2012 Mercedes-Benz Stockholm Week started today with a a ribbon cutting by actress Noomi Rapace, best-known in this country for her starring role as Lisbeth Sahlander in the Swedish films based upon the Millenium thrillers by Stieg Larsson. Ms. Rapace– who is currently making a name for herself in Hollywood– surely cut the ribbon, and [...]
Underwater Love: Not so good for suede
Posted: 9th January 2012 by wordhack1 in Ad Campaigns, Cool photos, Finnish
Tags: fashion photography, Minna Parikka, shoes
This photo taken by photographer Antti Viitala of some gorgeous shoes from Finland’s Minna Parikka sure makes some great eye-candy. Styling was done by Teri Niitti. The shoot was done for an editorial called Underwater Love for Finnish lifestyle magazine Image. But was it necessary to sacrifice the beautiful shoes in order to get the beautiful [...]
Friday night at Golden Arches and Debaser
It was a typical evening on the south side of Stockholm in the area of Södermalms Square and the Slussen subway terminal. I was sitting in McDonald’s enjoying a culinary treat with a journalist friend when I ran in John “SpaderTheInvader” Spade. John is the drummer in the psychedelic rock band Katla. We had met up a few weeks earlier [...]
Window shopping in Stockholm and Oslo
Posted: 3rd January 2012 by wordhack1 in Boutiques, Cool photos, Norwegian, Swedish
Tags: department store displays, glas magasinet, Monki, Norwegian Fashion, swedish fashion
Department store styists seem to have imbued some unusually strong spirts duirng the holiday season. Or perhaps they have been sampling the hallucigenic mushrooms which sprout in the Scandinavian forests? This family of mice resides in a storefront of the exclusive Glas Magasinet t in Oslo. Below, a metallic visitior from another galaxy, dressed with colorful Norwegian folkoric flair, stands for some reason in [...]
The Happy Socks phenomenon
Posted: 29th December 2011 by wordhack1 in Ad Campaigns, Cool photos, Fashion Photography, Swedish
Tags: accessories, happy socks, swedish fashion
Who would ever imagine that the most colorful and playful socks in the world would come out of Sweden? This is a country, after all, where fashion has traditionally been functional, not frivolous. This is a country, after all, where large numbers of perverse men wear shorts in the summer together with shiny leather shoes [...]
Bearing Witness: Greenpeace in photos
Posted: 28th December 2011 by wordhack1 in Cool photos, Events
Tags: Fotografiska Museum, Greenpeace, photography
While sipping my coffee at an Expresso bar near Fridhemsplan, I spotted American transplant Shirley Johansson, who is head of digital media for Greenpeace in the Nordic Region. She advised me to check out Stockholm’s wonderful Fotografiska museum, where an exhibit called “Bearing Witness” is under way. Check it out, people! The “Bearing Witness” [...]
Gorgeous fashion photo exhibit on tour
After an extremely successful debut in Stockholm, Peter Farago and Ingela Klemetz Farago’s exhibition “Northern Women In Chanel” is shifting to Copenhagen. The Designmuseum in Copenhagen will show 50 large prints and 25 more intimate black-and-white portraits. The exhibit is the result of a unique two year collaboration between the photographer duo and Chanel. The [...]
Karl Lagerfeld visits Aspudden
Posted: 14th December 2011 by wordhack1 in Cool photos, Events, Swedish
Tags: Aspudden, karl lagerfeld, Swedish street art
Fashion guru Karl Lagerfeld seems to have taken the wrong turn in Paris and ended up on a concrete wall in Aspudden, a rather anonymous suburb of Stockholm. The photo, which was taken by Lotta Söderberg, found its way to a street-art website. If you visit the site, be sure to check out the images [...]
Mystery and mysticism from Ziska of Iceland
Posted: 13th December 2011 by wordhack1 in Cool photos, Fashion Photography, Icelandic
Tags: fashion illustration, Harpa Einarsdottir, icelandic fashion, Ziska
For a country with a population of only about 320,000, Iceland seems to give birth to a surprisingly large number of wildly creative people. It must be the magic vibrations coming from the amazing lunar landscape. One of the biggest new creative talents is multimedia artist and fashion designer Harpa Einarsdottir. The first collection of [...]