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“Bleeeeugh!!!” is the name of the latest collection by Norway’s always original Fam Irvoll. The name is supposed to represent the sound made by monsters and slime. Some of the models who walked down the runway in Oslo to the theme song from “Ghostbusters” had green slime painted on their faces. The fanciful collection [...]
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Fur-free newcomer-of-the-year in Oslo
The recently introuced fur-free policy at Oslo Fashion Week, which kicked off this week, is one reason Genero Rivas of Peru chose to show his “Empire of the Sun” collection in Oslo. A self-taught desginer, Rivas was named “Newcomer-of-the-Year.” A few days earlier, during the Copenhagen Fashion Week, fur was much in evidence on both [...]
Killer collection from Oslo designer
Posted: 20th January 2012 by wordhack1 in Norwegian
Tags: glamorous fashion, Hotel Diplomat, 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 [...]
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 [...]
Fantastic shoe collection from Norway
Posted: 3rd January 2012 by wordhack1 in Norwegian
Tags: Ingunn Birkeland, Norwegian Fashion, women's shoes
Watch out, Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blanik. There is a new girl in town and her name is Ingunn Birkeland. The handmade “New York” model shown at left is just one of a large series of gorgeous creations which make up Birkeland’s first shoe collection, which was launched in August 2011. Photo: Anja Elmine Basma
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 [...]
Introducing Haaning & Htoon
The designer duo Haaning & Htoon have been named Designers of the Year 2011 in Norway for their new brand, which aims to provide women with luxury products at a price that the customer can appreciate. The Designer of the year award, called Nåløyet in Norwegian, will be presented to the designers in February. The designers [...]
3-D sunglasses by Norwegian twins
Posted: 9th December 2011 by wordhack1 in Norwegian, videos
Tags: 3 D glasses, 3D films, Ingri-Dahl, Norwegian Fashion
http://youtu.be/iQWaUzQpTGc This short film pretty much tells the story, how Norwegian twins Kine and Einy Paulsen moved to California to attend USC Marshall School of Business, and got the idea of making fashionable three deminsional viewing glasses after seeing a 3-D movie.
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 [...]
Will OnePiece be Xmas gift of the year?
Posted: 25th October 2011 by wordhack1 in Business news, Norwegian, Swedish, Trends
Tags: jumpsuits, news, onepiece, onesies, Zipperall
An online gambling site predicts that the jumpsuit may be the most popular Christmas present in Sweden this year. The odds are currently 4:1 that jumpsuits for adults youths and kids — like those made by OnePiece of Norway and Zipperall of Sweden– will be the most common gift when Santa comes calling in December, [...]