To bring back the hand-made is her goal – Combining little girls playfulness with avant-garde designs her achievement. This is the first collection of Swedish designer Lamija Suljevic. A talent to watch. (more…)

After having spent the last five years as an art director, graphic designer and illustrator at the creative collective Acne, graphic designer Daniel Carlsten launched his own business. His portfolio shows off his expertise in visual identities and graphic design of printed matter and my favorite is the printed Acne invite for the release of the 5th Acne Paper, the elegant issue. (more…)

Guys watch out. There´s a fresh Swedish breath called Red Collar Project.
The young brand offers “updated classics” by adding unobtrusive details, cuts and materials to timeless classic pieces in a maskuline and relaxed, casual way. The concept behind the brand´s name comes from old English way of identifying a person by ones trade: the blue collars workers and the white ones academics. With the expression “red collar”, the brand tries to establish a new category, focusing on lifestyle and personality rather than a person´s occupation. (more…)

Like only a few others, African-born and Canada-raised industrial designer Kumvani Gomani knows how to recycle waste into something truly beautiful and wearable. The concept of recycling in fashion and accessoires design is not super-fresh, but there are not many who succeed in the challenge of making something stunning out of something ugly. (more…)

The stallion for the car, the pelican for the pen, the camel for the cigarette and the tiger for the petrol. The list of animals, we learned to associate with famous brands is endless.
In a century where nature is as far as possible calculable, where flora and fauna are protected, reared, dominated or even threatened and the creature “human being” is not at all living in line with nature, emotions and attributes we connect with some plants and animals miraculously stayed.
Cross-cultural and cross national.

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Moustache-Accessorie by Leo Forssell. (more…)

Some days ago, Anna-Sara Dåvik presented her first collection in the context of Stockholm Fashion Week.
While not disliking her collection, but not exactly adoring it, I am stunned by the black gloves with silver nails the former Beckmans and Central Saint Martins student presented. What a surreal idea. (more…)

“Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix.
In every human being vacillation from one sex to the other takes place,
and often it is only the clothes that keep the male and female likeness,
while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above” – by V.Wolf.

With the idea of boys and girls swapping each other’s clothes, creating their own way of wearing by mixing, matching and layering the garments, Scandinavian-born, now London-based label Pudel was introduced to the fans of androgynous fashion only three seasons ago… (more…)