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There is, to recycle the title of an old Led Zeppelin tune, a whole lotta art going on. This weekend art lovers in the Swedish capital can gorge themselves on not one but TWO huge art extravaganzas. One is called Market, and takes place at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. The second is [...]
Events
Market, Supermarket or both of them?
Posted: 16th February 2012 by wordhack1 in Events
Tags: Art Fairs, Kulturhuset, Royal Swedish Academy of the Arts, Stockholm events
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Win a free trip to Ibizia
Posted: 15th February 2012 by wordhack1 in Ad Campaigns, Danish, Events
Tags: contest, free trip, Ibizia, nn.07, no nationality
I would love to be on the Mediteranean island of Ibizia right about now. The weather isn’t too bad here in Stockholm— just slightly below freezing with a light snow on the ground– but the dark days get me down sometimes. I want to bury my frozen toes in some warm sand and listen to the sound of waves hitting the shore. [...]
Psychedelic band Katla creates “Illusion”
Posted: 13th February 2012 by wordhack1 in Events, Swedish, videos
Tags: Katla, Nalen, psychedelic rock, Swedish rock
The Pussy-a-Go-Go club, based in Stockholm’s Nalen music venue, was the host Friday to a kick-ass performance by Katla, a young unsigned Stockholm rock band. Alex and I had a great time at the concert. Check out our video!
Art exhibit: A Trip to the Moon
Posted: 8th February 2012 by wordhack1 in Events
Tags: Bonniers Konsthall, film as art, Marco Brambilla
The idea behind the exhibit A Trip to the Moon which opened last night at Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm sounds great on paper: The exhibit aims to explore the love affair between art and film. Unfortunately, the art projects presented comprised mainly of moving images on multiple TVs and individual large screens were incomprehensible if one did [...]
Champagne collection By Malene Birger
In the soft light of twelve gigantic chandeliers hanging from the high ceiling in a massive hall in Copenhagen, celebrites and a small clique of privleged stylemakers sat in front seats separated by small tables covered with white linin. Most of the audience at the Friday evening show– including yours truly– stood watching in a mob from the sidelines as slender [...]
Queen Bee Josefin Strid
Posted: 4th February 2012 by wordhack1 in Events, Swedish, Uncategorized
Tags: josefin strid, men's fashion, stockholm fashion week
Josefin Strid has recently been to New York and this American experience can surely be seen in her design of a men’s collection. Exaggerated shoulders in her leather shirts give slender Swedish boys the strength of a hard-hitting baseball player. Triangle scarves let them preserve the youthful charm of a Boy Scout. Her show during Stockholm Fashion [...]
Three-D magic from V Ave Shoe Repair
Posted: 3rd February 2012 by wordhack1 in Events, Swedish
Tags: 3D printing, Alexander Lervik, Man versus Machine, swedish fashion, V Ave Shoe Repair
The A/W 2012 runway show of V Ave Shoe Repair presented a futuristic collection titled “Man Versus Machine”. The idea behind the collection was to combine traditional craftsmanship and human emotion with sculptural shapes created through computers and machines. Designers behind the brand,Astrid Olsson and Lee Cotter, told a story of humans converted into cyborgs. Edgy [...]
Revelation in Purgatory- strong debut at SFW
Posted: 2nd February 2012 by wordhack1 in Events, Swedish
Tags: couture, Maria Nordstöm, Stockhom Fashion Week, swedish fashion, women's fashion
-Why couldn’t all the designers try to create emotions like her?- asked my friend after Maria Nordström’s show at Berns in Stockholm. This newcomer of the year presented a thrilling vision. The show started with a procession of ghost-like models marching to the sound of church bells, filling the audience with an uneasy feeling, as [...]
Dangerous styles from David Andersen
Posted: 2nd February 2012 by wordhack1 in Danish, Events
Tags: copenhagen fashion week, David Andersen
To the tune of a remixed version of “Upside Down,” played loud enough to make my teeth rattle, dangerous David Andersen showed some sleek, sexy looks with plenty of leather in his A/W collection on Day One of Copenhagen Fashion Week. Altough most of the outfits were in different shades of black and gray, there was [...]
Edith goes guerilla on January 31
Posted: 26th January 2012 by wordhack1 in Events, Swedish
Tags: edith södergran, Jenny Grettve, swedish fashion
A guerilla fashion show will be staged in Stockholm on Tuesday 31 January 2012. An outdoors catwalk open to the public will take place featuring a collection by designer Jenny Grettve called “Edith on a Bike,” inspired by Swedish poet Edith Södergran…and motocross. Models wearing Grettve’s designs are scheduled to appear at 12:25, and strut their [...]