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The first-ever “Strut: The Fashionable Mom Show” took place earlier this week at Lincoln Center in New York City near the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week’s tents. Moms walked down the catwalk pushing strollers or proudly showing off the swelling bellies of pregnancy, according to a news story about the event by wire service AP. To stage [...]
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Lykke Li signed with Viva Models
Posted: 22nd January 2012 by wordhack1 in Models, Swedish
Tags: Lykke Li, Swedish models, Viva Model Management
The London office of Viva Model Management has snapped up Lykke Li, an attractive Swedish singer/songwriter with a seductive voice and oodles of talent. The 25-year-old electro-pop singer is no stranger to magazine covers. Her sultry image has already graced the covers of magazines like The Lab, Notion, Foam and Spin. In 2010 she modeled [...]
Pop-up exhibit of fashion adverts in Oslo
Posted: 13th January 2012 by wordhack1 in Ad Campaigns, Fashion Photography, Models, Norwegian
Tags: Gamle Galleri Gude, Trollbeads, Westerdals
Thursday the 12th of January, the students of AD 2 at Westerdal School of Communication launched their exhibition of fashion advertisements in Gamle Galleri Gude (gallery) in Oslo. The Pop-up vernissage was called «Eye Candy.» The students made one ad campaign each for a brand with which they can identify. The challenge was to find an [...]
How Julia Schneider got to be Elite model
Posted: 11th December 2011 by wordhack1 in Events, Models, Swedish
Tags: Elite Model Look World Final, Julia Schneider, model competition
Three months ago fashion was not a big interest of 15-year-old Julia Schneider, the new Swedish winner of the international Elite Model Look competition. She had never gone on a catwalk and had reportedly never even worn high-heel shoes. “I have definitely never been interested in fashion,” she told a reporter from newspaper Arbetarbladet in [...]
Swedish teen Julia wins Elite Model Look
Posted: 9th December 2011 by wordhack1 in Events, Models, Swedish
Tags: Elite Model Look World Final, Elite Stockholm, fashion model, Julia Schneider, Kristen Lane, model competition
Fifteen year old Julia Schneider from Gävle, Sweden is this year’s winner of the prestigious international Elite Model Look competition. The crowning of Julia took place December 6 in Shanghai after castings in some 800 different cities in 70 different countries on five continents. “We’re so happy and excited. She has the perfect face for [...]
A funny thing about hair
Posted: 20th November 2011 by wordhack1 in Cool photos, Models, Trends
Tags: beards, Hair, hair cuts, hair styles, Nordic Museum, Nordiska Museet
Nearly everyone has issues with their own hair. If you are like most people, you probably feel that your hair is too curly, too thin, too short or too long, a boring color or the wrong texture. A museum in Stockholm is currently collecting anecdotes, photos and memorablia related to hair for an upcoming exhibit [...]
Airbrushed models out of fashion in Norway
Posted: 10th November 2011 by wordhack1 in Ad Campaigns, Models, Norwegian
Tags: anorexic models, digital retouching, Norwegian Fashion, Thin models
Norwegian minister of Gender Equality Audun Lysbakken wants to reduce the pressure on young girls to try to live up to unrealistic ideals of beauty. Lysbakken plans to start a dialogue with the advertising industry and the media to stop advertising which promotes unhealthy body ideals, according to daily newspaper Berlingske Tidende. One possible course [...]
Tall Dane models for Dior Homme
Posted: 21st January 2011 by wordhack1 in Danish, Fashion Photography, Models
Tags: Dior Homme, male model, Versace, Victor Nylander
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFtDu8s0Dt8] Victor Nylander is the fresh new face of both Dior Homme and Versace in their SS11 campaigns. Willy Vanderperre shot a video and eight photos of the 18-year-old from Roskilde, Denmark for Dior Homme, while the maestro-himself—-fashion photographer Mario Testino –used the tall Dane for the Versace campaign. In the Dior Homme video, it [...]
They always ask for her ID
Posted: 4th November 2010 by wordhack1 in Cool photos, Models, Swedish
Tags: New designer, scandinavian, Stockholmsgruppen, Swedish, Swedish model, women's clothes
Elle Frostegard hasn’t taken a traditional path to a career as fashion designer, but it seems like she is nevertheless on the way to realizing her dream.
Northern styles in new Belgian magazine
Posted: 5th August 2010 by wordhack1 in Cool photos, Fashion Photography, Models, Swedish
Tags: 2PM Copenhagen, Antonella Baldassare, Belgian, Cornelia, Fhush Magazine, Henrik Adamsen, HPI of Sweden, Kawa H. Pour, Lasse Pedersen, Monika Grensteen, Nina Holma, Sandra Backlund. Nina Jarebrink, Sandwich, Unique Look, Waldemar Hansson
When F-Hush, a brand new fashion glossy out of Belgium hits the stands around the world for the first time this week, Scandinavian design will be well represented thanks to Stockholm-based stylist Kawa H. Pour.