zig zag wandering

Hmmm, sorry my dear blog, for ignoring you for months... I've been zig zag wandering around Europe and soaking in rain and sun in varying amounts, and not really thinking about clothes, or fashion, or even less blogging.

Two weeks ago though I did get the honour of helping prepare the Stine Goya fashion show for Copenhagen's Fashion Week. She has been one of my tip top favourite designers on the planet, and I can admit I almost fainted on the way to her studio on my first day. I can however report that she is one of the nicest, and most down to earth, amazing favourite designers of mine in the world. During the week, we made some of the Michael Jackson tribute gloves, bought and painted shoes (her own range wasn't back from the factory in time for the show), spray-painted tights (which unfortunately turned out pretty terrible) and beaded the swimming costumes that the synchronised swimmers wore in the intro bit.

Ida Sjöstedt S/S 09 catalogue

I came across this catalogue of Ida Sjöstedt's S/S09 collection at Snö and instantly fell in love with the girly, playful and innocent DIY aesthetic that the catalogue creates with its mix of mixed-material collages, drawings and dreamy low-fi photographs. I especially love the pink leopard print page... (and how its juxtaposed with the virginal white page across it.)

Ciel a nuit

(photos from stinegoya.com and style.com)

I loved the colour palettes at both Chloe and Danish designer Stine Goya's S/S 2009 shows, which featured shades of lemon, coral, burnt peach and gold, juxtaposed with a sheeny, dark, rich, blue. Makes me dream of Oriental holidays...

Stella Tennant in Damascus, shot by Tom Craig - Vogue UK May 2009.

(photos from Vogue UK)

I present you... Camilla Staerk

Camilla Stærk is a Danish-born designer, currently living and working on her label Stærk in New York. She originally designed under a label named after her full name, but after it was bought by CS DK she made a quick exit. To add insult to injury, that label doesn't even exist anymore! Just proves that they should have listened to her...

Her collections are consistently inspired by strong (her name Stærk literally means 'strong' in Danish), powerful, interesting women in history, such as Karen Blixen, and always feature a subdued colour palette, using textures such as leather and lace to create a modernist, minimalist, clean but slightly dangerous (for the lack of a better word) silhouette. I get the feeling that she is a very personal designer... that she designs very much for herself. She is a big fan of headwraps, scarves and hats for example, which are always used in the styling of the shows.

Here are some of her offerings for S/S 09:

Send me a postcard darling...

I'm hoping for Finnish relatives to send me mail lately (which they never do, so it's in vain, I know) because Julia Lundsten's Finsk, along with four other Finnish designers, have designed a range of stamps in Finland. Since discovering Julia Lundsten's brand, I have consistently followed and drooled over her designs online (and in Faith, where she does a diffusion range) which always combine an unexpected but harmonious juxtaposition of colours, finishes and materials. Manolo Blahnik has praised her work, citing it as "nothing anybody is doing at the moment, exquisite, divine, perfect."

Maria Carla by Lina Scheynius

I love these photographs by Lina Scheynius (some of which are in the latest issue of Another magazine) The shades of pink, Maria carla, and the almost eerie, sexy, absurd, poetic, tense, melancholic atmosphere that only hotel rooms with quilted blankets and old, patterned carpets with the right afternoon light can provide.

PURE - Falter magazine

paper snowflakes and big knits take me straight back to finland

photo: per zennström
styling: pirjo nimelä
hair & make-up: tony lundström

No hay vuelta

Extremely talented upcoming young designer Ida Johansson came to our poker-night last week and brought lovely surprises for me! A gorgeous dress, and prints of Carlo and I modeling her final collection last summer.

The print of the dress is something that my inner 13 year old will never stop lusting.... i.e., anything shiny, golden, and flower-print... even better if all at the same time! I think I'm going to combine it with some tougher elements like an 80s studded denim vest to tone down the flowery-ness every so slightly... or something grey, and woollen. Like a crazy librarian. Or wear it as Ida intended, with the sheer white dress over it. Though I love the print and shininess of it too much to hide it!

Mmmm... shiny flowers....

Here are some of the Mito Magico photos that Ida ended up using in her final presentation of the collection:

I'm still so surprised that she managed to can these pictures in about 2 hours of messing around in a field!


Here are some pictures of Ida's A/W 2009-10 show, which she presented at Cibeles Madrid fashion week!

(photos from Vogue.es)