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Rock n’ roll footwear from Norway


Posted: 10th February 2012 by wordhack1 in Uncategorized

  Burgandy and black were some of the colors featured in the Fall 2012 shoe collection of Helene Westbye in a showing held Thursday during Oslo Fashion Week.  Westbye, who defines her look as “rock n’ roll with a feminine twist,  presented different styles of pumps, ankle boots and boots.  “The pumps look skillfully crafted,” noted writer [...]

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Queen Bee Josefin Strid


Posted: 4th February 2012 by wordhack1 in Events, Swedish, Uncategorized
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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 [...]

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Backstage at the Henrik Vibskov show


Posted: 2nd February 2012 by wordhack1 in Danish, Trade Fairs, Uncategorized
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Last night I got a chance to go backstage and snap some photos during the staging of Danish designer Henrik Vibskov’s “Shrink Wrap Spectacular” Autumn/Winter 2012 show in Copenhagen.   The models were nervous but happy, Mr. Vibskov, taking a sip from an aluminum can of Carlsberg beer now and then,  seemed cool as a cucumber.  This [...]

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Spraypaint animation from Finland


Posted: 31st October 2011 by wordhack1 in Finnish, Uncategorized, videos
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfHFw4FPjx4&feature=player_embedded#!] Is this cool, or what?

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Odd Molly takes a cold shower


Posted: 24th October 2011 by wordhack1 in Uncategorized

The spring and summer 2012 collections of Odd Molly, a Swedish fashion retailer listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, have gotten a chilly reception this year by fashion buyers. The order value for the collection is off by 31 percent compared to the same period last year. After seven years with the company, CEO Christina [...]

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Knitting up a macabre vision


Posted: 25th August 2011 by wordhack1 in Cool photos, Events, Finnish, Uncategorized
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Finnish textile artist and designer Suvi Suikki combines pen-and-ink drawings made on hand-made paper with knitted fabrics, extending the possibilities of both media. She seems to operate in a grey zone between good and evil, the delicate and the grotesque. That is the description, at any rate, contained in an invitation I got today to [...]

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ida Sjöstedt: Behind the scenes


Posted: 25th January 2011 by wordhack1 in Swedish, Uncategorized, videos

Fashion designers come and go, but only a few can win approval from the critics year after year like Sweden’s Ida Sjöstedt

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The news is that there is no news


Posted: 23rd January 2011 by wordhack1 in Swedish, Uncategorized
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Robert & Blads is opening a new chapter in the evolution of sustainable fashion. The Malmö fashion firm announces that its collections will in the future remain pretty much the same from season to season, with only a limited number of new items added occasionally. The idea is apparently to go in the opposite direction [...]

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Comfort rules with OnePiece of Norway

The downstairs 2.35:1 club at Berns in Stockholm was the scene on Friday of a runway show spotlighting some bright-colored cotton jumpsuits from OnePiece of Norway.

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Lady Gaga’s Icelandic designer

Lady Gaga was spotted wearing oneof Vera Thordardottir’s frost-inspired creations only a few days before Vera graduated from Istituto Marangoni in East London earlier this year. The Italian-American singer wore a frilly outfit from the Icelandic designer’s graduation collection when she performed at Elton John’s White Tie and Tiara Ball

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