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Hernández Cornet Fall/Winter 2012

By purpose self-referential, the collection centres on a personal archive of garments that became archetypes throughout the years. This time, these obsessions recur as déja-vu variants in PVC and leather.
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Image credits Kristian Löveborg for ASFB

The Doomed

Cheap Monday Fall/Winter 2011

We are already living in a cyber world. We have digital avatars on Facebook, supposedly representing ourselves. We do live a post-apocalyptic life. And don't even need an Armageddon. So let's dress if there was no tomorrow. For god's sake!
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Image credits MBFW Stockholm, MMCIII

The Spell

Hernández-Cornet Spring/Summer 2011

The ancient myth of fox spirits. Transforming into the outer appearance of a beautiful young woman. Seducing the beholder. Their surroundings continuously shifting. Reflected through garments of displacement and a distorted reality. Nothing is what it seems.
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Predestination

Salvador Dalí The Enigma of Wilhelm Tell, 1933

A perfect sunday. A day of impressions. A closer look at one certain piece of art. It made me realize: Buying sandals in winter is not more surreal than the work of Salvador Dalí.
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Contrary

Sandals Hope

Minus degrees in October. First day of snow. And what do I buy? Sandals. Congratulations. Well, one can never be prepared enough for the upcoming season. This is what one may call foresight.
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Future Projection

Acne Jeans Fall/Winter 2010

Fingers crossed that I will sit in a plane to Stockholm this night. Actually there is two main reasons to go: Kanelbullar and shopping. Besides a beautiful city in general. This is my decent wishlist.
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Reality Bites

Whyred Spring/Summer 2011

I know it looks boring, but let's be honest: That's what I will buy, that's how I actually dress. Am I destroying an illusion now? I appreciate these clothes in an everyday context. The only thing I am asking myself: Do they have to appear on a runway?
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Image credits Fashion Week by Berns

Parallel Reality

Klara Sjons Nilsson Graduate collection

Intepretations of a three- and two-dimensional world. A reality that is built upon principles that are chosen by its creator. Defining how the world is seen and reflected. An investigation of perception that reveals and succeeds.
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Image credits Anders Lindén

Hellenistic Citation

Sculpture Carl Milles

A walk through Millesgården made me fall in love again. With one particular sculpture entitled 'The Hand of God'. One of the last works before Carl Milles' death. A very modern adaption of Grecian themes and archetypes.
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Not Myself Tonight

Disa Treutiger Graduate collection

"We all carry memories, fragments that symbolize different feelings we have experienced. I have made a visual interpretation of loss, oblivion, confusion and change. What is remembered and what is forgotten?"

As obedient devotee, I once again fell for Disa Treutiger's work. When carefully examnining her garments, her conceptual approach becomes self-evident.
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Image credits Kristian Löveborg

Natural Impetus

Waistcoat Acne

An unstoppable inner force made me fall in love with this crispy white crinkled waistcoat. I couldn't resist the adrenaline rush. The result: A new piece in my collection and further proof for my waistcoat addiction.
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Test Purchase

All clothes MTWTFSS

I came to the conclusion that it wouldn't do any harm to rehearse Stockholm shopping a few days before my actual birthday trip. The strategy: leave with an empty bag and return with a whole household.
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Schizophrenic Characters

Ida Sjöstedt Fall/Winter 2010

Staying true to herself and her aesthetics, Ida Sjöstedt celebrates a richness and decadence for Fall/Winter 2010. Fine and delicate structures that cover an evil core. Attracted to sin and crudity. Princesses with multiple personalities.
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Resigned Forces

Cheap Monday Fall/Winter 2010

Cheap Monday goes minimal for Fall/Winter 2010, almost underdesigned. Grey and black. Plain and undisrupted. It seems extreme wearability is the statement. Rebellion is so last season.
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Image credits Sonny Vandevelde

Evil Brain Fight

Maria Melinder Graduate Collection vs. Krang

Somehow, don't ask me why, this look reminded me of a brain. But not just a brain, the brain. The evil brain from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Life is beautiful.
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A Mockumentary

Hernández Cornet Spring/Summer 2010

Raw edged frills, unbleached toile cotton, printed crinkle effects. A design exercise that incorporates mock-ups and mishappenings as an undeniable and necessary part of the actual result. The word final does not exist. Instead, it recreates itself through garments that resemble unfinished sentences, accompanied by a light and apparitional question mark, dangerously wafting in the air.
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Fuzzy

Disa Treutiger Graduate Collection

I'm never tired of accentuated shoulders - even though they look so cozy that I would like to convert them into pillows and fall asleep right away. Fuzzy shoulder pad dreams. The perfect outfit for a rub and hug.
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