Posts Tagged ‘stockholm fashion week’

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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Go wild at Scandinavian fashion events


Posted: 1st January 2012 by wordhack1 in Events
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There will be plenty of opportunities to rack up  frequent flyer miles during the next two months, if you want to check out all the trends up here near the Polar Circle. As usual, scheduled fashion weeks in the Nordic region overlap in terms of dates. Wouldn’t it be nice if the  fashion weeks in Stockholm, Copenhagen, [...]

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They are the losers at our fashion party


Posted: 22nd November 2011 by wordhack1 in Business news
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While Swedish fashion retailers are busy unveiling their new collections during Stockholm Fashion Week (November 21-24), morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter has published a timely feature article about those workers in the global clothing industry who do much of the work, but earn the least amount of money. The clothing manufacturing industry in Bangladesh has expanded [...]

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A sexy fairytale by Ida Sjöstedt


Posted: 10th August 2011 by wordhack1 in Swedish
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEcPxpAkrY0] Magical! Enchanting! were a few of the words that floated through my mind as I watched the runway show of Ida Sjöstedt’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Incurable romantics will love the feminine, fairytale-like look of many of the outfits. As those of us who have been following this designer are well aware, no one can [...]

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Stockholm Fashion Week- Tuesday


Posted: 10th August 2011 by wordhack1 in Events, Street Fashion, Trade Fairs
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Stylist Michelle Da Silva was one of the most popular targets for photographers on the second day of Stockholm Fashion Week. I grabbed this shot of Michelle on an iPod outside of Berns, one of the fashion week’s main venues. I’m shopping for a stylist to help with a an “underground” event I’m trying to [...]

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Fashion calendar for Fall 2011

Summer in Scandinavia is brief as a sneeze. Achoo! Before you have time to recover from your pollen allergy it is time to deport your flip-flops and swim suits to the bottom drawer in your closet. August means the start of another round of fashion weeks, fairs and festivals. Danish collections will hit the runways [...]

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Scandinavian fashion calendar Spring 2011


Posted: 17th December 2010 by wordhack1 in Trade Fairs
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Stylists, designers and clothing companies are already busy finalizing collections for the next round of fashion weeks during late winter/early spring..

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Dates to write on your calendar

The next Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Berns Salonger will take place January 31 – February 2, 2011.

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Nakkna stays true to itself


Posted: 26th August 2010 by wordhack1 in Swedish
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The color range was as usual with Nakkna mainly white, gray and black. But this time there was also a faded light brown or beige. The only other colors during the show were the orange/red and yellow eye-shadow on the models. The overall feeling was as usual minimalistic

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Fashion Calendar Fall 2010

August 11-15. Copenhagen Fashion Week is Northern Europe’s largest fashion event,  with three trade fairs: CPH Vision, Gallery and Copenhagen International Fashion Fair. In all, some 1,100 exhibitors representing a total of over 2,300 international brand name collections are represented. www.copenhagenfashionweek.com

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