• Sweden celebrates 85 years with Josef Frank

    Written by Fashion Tales

    This year marks 85 years since one of Sweden’s most renowned designers came and enriched his new homeland with colourful prints and timeless interiors. To commemorate this, Svenskt Tenn has created an exhibition presenting a mix of newly produced and classic designs, as well as objects from the archives – all created by Josef Frank.

    Josef and Anna Frank left their homeland, Austria, in December 1933 due to the rise of anti-Semitism. In January 1934, Josef Frank began a lifelong collaboration with Svenskt Tenn’s founder Estrid Ericson.

    “With this tribute exhibition we want to show the breadth of Josef Frank’s creativity and how much his designs have contributed to Swedish design history and the present,” says Thommy Bindefeld, marketing manager and creative director.

    This autumn’s big fabric news is Josef Frank’s Baranquilla, which is now being launched with a black base. There will also be a number of new launches from the archives: Cabinet 2215 is a classic piece of furniture that will return to Svenskt Tenn’s range in 2018, together with a sideboard, a stool a classic captain’s chair and a round dining table.

    “Estrid Ericson felt that a round dining table with room for eight people was the most suitable for serving dinner, so all of the dinner guests could see and hear each other. Our customers have also been asking for a large, round dining table and subsequently, table 1020 has returned to our range,” says Bindefeld.

    Ann Wall, who was the company’s managing director from 1979 to 1999, initiated the tribute exhibition. She also turns 85 in September, which is something that Svenskt Tenn would like to acknowledge.

    “Ann Wall laid the foundation for the commercial cultural institution that is Svenskt Tenn today and initiated the business concept that the company has followed ever since – to continue Estrid Ericson and Josef Frank’s legacy with a modern twist,” says Maria Veerasamy, CEO at Svenskt Tenn.

    The Frank 85 exhibition is open from September 21th to October 28th, 2018.

    www.svenskttenn.se

  • By Malina for Hanky Panky

    Written by Fashion Tales

    For AW18, American lingerie brand Hanky Panky has created a small capsule collection together with the Swedish designer brand By Malina. 

    The collection consists of the classic bralette, the low rise thong and the retro thong. All presented in the print Blue Jungle, a core print for By Malina’s AW18 ready-to-wear collection. A smaller limited edition box with three low rise thongs in the classic colours chai and granite as well as the special print Blue Jungle were also created and resulted in the ultimate christmas gift. 

    ”We are delighted to collaborate with By Malina because of our shared vision. Women owned apparel companies are in tune with their customers, who dress foremost to empower themselves by way of great style, bold color, and fabulous prints.” - Gale Epstein, President/Creative Director Hanky Panky

    ”I am so excited about this collaboration. Hanky Panky has been my go-to brand since I was 16 years old, I’ve had them in all different colors and prints. What I like about the brand Hanky Panky is that they are not, just like By Malina, afraid of mixing colors and patterns. I hope the By Malina girl loves the collection as much as I do.” - Malin Ek Andrén, Founder of By Malina

    Prices are from 329 SEK to 799 SEK and are available at NK, Twilfit and By Malina's webshop

    www.bymalina.com

    www.hankypanky.com

  • TID Watches - No.1 36 Black Edition

    Written by Fashion Tales

    TID Watches is launching No.1 36 Black Edition – an all over black, limited edition watch.

    By early October, Swedish based watch brand TID Watches is launching No.1 36 Black Edition – an all over black edition making a monochrome addition to the iconic No.1 family.

    TID Watches stands for minimalist, customizable watches based on Scandinavian design. The latest release from the brand is the limited edition No.1 36 Black Edition.

    With completely black features and graphic black-on-black aesthetics – TID Watches No.1 36 Black Edition is a bold, monochrome watch building upon the design heritage of the iconic No.1 family from TID Watches in a black on black color combination that never goes out of style. The watch is a limited edition addition to the iconic No.1 family.

    – Our iconic No.1 watch was the first watch we released five years ago and the No.1 family is truly the foundation for all design from TID Watches. With the release of the monochrome No.1 36 Black Edition, we are staying true to the design DNA of TID Watches and our core aesthetics. The all over black features are a celebration to what’s simple, yet refined, says Ola E. Bernestål, founder and Creative Director at TID Watches.

    TID Watches Black Edition – designed by renowned design studio Form Us With Love.

    – Our ambition with a full black No.1 36 is to push and highlight the shape and the details rather than to do things too obvious and graphical. The outcome is a low-key watch that is going to suit a wide range of opportunities with a lot to discover, says John Löfgren, Creative Director at Form Us With Love and co-founder of TID Watches.

    The limited edition TID Watches Black Edition is available in one size (36 mm) via www.tidwatches.com and selected retailers by
    early October for a price of 1 995 SEK.

    About TID 
    TID Watches is a Stockholm based watch brand founded in 2012 by Ola E. Bernestål, Petrus Palmér and design studio Form Us With Love’s Jonas Pettersson and John Löfgren. TID is the Swedish word for ‘time’, and accordingly, TID strives to create iconic products with a real value over time. TID Watches is exploring the future of Scandinavian design through minimalist, customizable watches. Investing themselves in the perfection of watch making from the studio in Stockholm, TID tirelessly refines materials and details to produce a limited collection of iconic timepieces to wear every day. TID Universe celebrates creativity at large – offering a platform for artists, thinkers, writers and visualizers to explore time.

    www.tidwatches.com

  • Paula Modersohn-Becker and the Worpswede Artists’ Colony

    Written by Fashion Tales

    For the first time ever in Sweden, a more comprehensive presentation of the artists’ colony founded in 1889 in the village of Worpswede just outside Bremen is being exhibited. The Worpswede colony, the best known artists’ colony in Germany, was to be the haunt of a number of eminent German artists and writers in the years around 1900. The exhibition comprises about 70 works and offers a unique opportunity to discover a visual world which, despite its fascination, is virtually unknown in Sweden. These include works by the internationally acclaimed painter Paula Modersohn-Becker as well as Otto Modersohn, Heinrich Vogeler, Ottilie Reylaender and others.

    In recent years Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde has focused on the significance of artists’ colonies in the late 19th and early 20th century for art in Europe. Our studies of artists’ colonies as phenomena is now being supplemented by this extensive exhibition about the artists’ colony in the German village of Worpswede. This is the first exhibition in Sweden that focuses on these expressive works with their atmospheric landscapes, sensitive depictions of the poor north-German peasantry, portraits and evocative motifs from myths and folk-tales painted by the artists at Worpswede around the year 1900.

    The exhibition, which contains about 60 paintings and a number of drawings and prints offers visitors a chance to make the acquaintance of very interesting visual art that is virtually unknown in Sweden. Today Paula Modersohn-Becker is the most acclaimed and famous Worpswede artist and the one most richly represented in the exhibition through the loan of 17 of her works. Particular focus has been placed on the period in which she was active at Worpswede. Other artists exhibited are Otto Modersohn, Heinrich Vogeler, Ottilie Reylaender, Hans am Ende, Fritz Overbeck, Hermine Overbeck- Rohte, Fritz Mackensen and Marie Bock. There are also references to the famous poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who spent some time at Worpswede, in the exhibition and the catalogue. The works on display have been loaned to us by a large number of museums, collections and private individuals in Germany. Worpsweder Museumsverbund has been an important partner in the extensive work on this exhibition.

    “As the museum’s Director General and exhibition’s curator, when I made a visit to Worpswede, I became fascinated by the atmosphere there: the ehtereal alleys of birch trees in the flat landscape that surrounds the village, the calmly flowing waterways as well as by the beautiful works created there at the turn of the century around 1900. It is with great pleasure and pride that this autumn Waldemarsudde can now enable visitors to experience the atmospheric landscapes, psychologically penetrating depictions of people and the wealth of polysemously symbolic fairy-tale motifs offered by around 70 works that have been generously loaned to us by a large number of museums and collections in, for instance, Worpswede, Fischerhude, Bremen and elsewhere in Germany,” says Waldemarsudde’s Director General, Karin Sidén.

    The exhibition is supplemented by a profusely illustrated catalogue with articles by German, French and Swedish experts. In connection with the opening of the exhibition the publishing company Norstedts is issuing a Swedish translation of the acclaimed novel by the French author Marie Darrieussecq about Paula Modersohn-Becker’s brief life and interesting oeuvre, Être ici est une splendeur. Marie Darrieussecq is also one of the contributors to the museum’s exhibition catalogue together with a couple of German and Swedish experts. The exhibition also includes a slide show, a concert, lectures (among them one by Marie Darrieussecq) and a programme for children and young people.

    The exhibition runs between 15 September 2018 – 27 January 2019

    Picture 1) Heinrich Vogeler, Vår, 1897. Olja på duk, 175 x 150 cm. Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung und Waldemar Koch Stiftung. Deponerad vid Heinrich Vogeler Stiftung Haus

    Picture 2) Paula Modersohn-Becker, Betande skimmel i månskenet, 1901. Olja på kartong och trä, 50 x 56,4 cm. Otto Modersohn-Museum, Fischerhude.

  • Uniqlo U 2018 Fall/Winter Collection

    Written by Fashion Tales

    Uniqlo U 2018 Fall/Winter Collection to Launch Globally from Thursday, September 20. Wardrobe essentials feature vivid seasonal color palette and in-trend volumes.

    September 13, 2018, Tokyo, Japan – UNIQLO today announces that it will roll out the Uniqlo U 2018 Fall/Winter collection from Thursday, September 20. The collection represents a commitment to reinventing basics as the future of LifeWear.

    The Christophe Lemaire-led design team at the UNIQLO Paris R&D Center is constantly evolving its advanced ideas for the Uniqlo U designs, patterns, fabric development, and sewing techniques. Since the line’s debut two years ago, its mainstay items have become even more attractive, with its innovations transforming into contemporary essentials. The latest collection features a vivid fall and winter color palette and designs with in-trend volumes. It is elegantly timeless while showcasing diverse ideas that symbolize the future of LifeWear.

    The collection features brilliant reds and fuchsias as rich and warm accents that symbolize the coming of fall. The styling for this season emphasizes volume through dolman sleeves for women’s fleece blousons and boxy silhouettes for men’s fleece jackets. Women’s items exude comfort and confidence, while men’s pieces convey unpretentious relaxation.

    The range includes men’s and women’s BLOCKTECH coats that is water repellent and windproofed. Women’s coats wick away inside moisture and have snap-on hoods, with hem slits that enhance comfort when walking or seated. This season sees 3D knits employing advanced WHOLEGARMENT technology for beautiful silhouettes that are also comfortable. There are two dress and three sweater designs for women. A special spinning technique has resulted in raised looks and soft textures in mélange sweaters. There are also sweaters with vintage-style link knitting and items in comfortable ponte fabrics.

    Profile of Christophe Lemaire Christophe Lemaire has been designing his namesake collection since 1991 and has served as Artistic Director of Lacoste and Artistic Director of women’s ready-to-wear at Hermès. In 2015 he partnered with UNIQLO resulting in the UNIQLO AND LEMAIRE collaboration collections for Fall/Winter 2015 and Spring/Summer 2016. Christophe Lemaire was appointed Artistic Director of the UNIQLO Paris R&D Center in 2016, where he and his handpicked team of designers create the Uniqlo U collection.

  • Warhol 1968

    Written by Fashion Tales

    Warhol 1968 is an exhibition about the Andy Warhol exhibition at Moderna Museet in 1968. It also explores the complexity of Warhol’s practice from the perspective of the life-changing murder attempt, which took place that year. The exhibition includes the now-famous cow wallpaper that covered the facade of the Museum in 1968, wall photos from the exhibition, quotes and reviews, juxtaposing them with works from the Moderna Museet Collection.

    1968 was a politically turbulent year in Sweden and internationally, with reactions against the Vietnam war, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, student demonstrations and the tennis riots in Båstad. This was also the year when Andy Warhol’s very first solo museum exhibition opened at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Due to the left-wing climate that prevailed in Sweden, especially in the arts, the organisers anticipated an onslaught of criticism against the exhibition for being American propaganda. However, the opinions of Sweden’s art critics differed widely. Aftonbladet’s art critic Bengt Olvång wrote that “we can’t deny Warhol his position as an intense, disillusioned truth-seeker”, while Ulf Linde at Dagens Nyheter exclaimed, “Warhol has filled me with distaste.” 

    “'There is nothing behind the surface of my works,' Warhol said in 1967. But that is not entirely true. Even if his art grew more commercially speculative after the shooting in 1968, he continued to hold up a more or less critical mirror to the face of American mass media and consumerism, albeit of a different nature,” says John Peter Nilsson, curator. Warhol became part of the contemporary popular and mass media culture he had previously described. In the 1970s, he was New York’s most glamorous celebrity and epitomised the nightclub Studio 54. He designed the first advertising campaign for the then Swedish government-owned brand Absolut Vodka. He was commissioned to make portraits of famous people or less famous people who could afford it.

    “Warhol was a practising Catholic since childhood, and was aware of how religion was being replaced by mass media and consumerism in the 20th century. He was also obsessed with death and catastrophes. There is a melancholy side to his oeuvre which originates in this,” says John Peter Nilsson,

    The exhibition Warhol 1968 looks back at the exhibition of 1968, featuring the now famous cow wallpaper that covered the facade of Moderna Museet, wall photos from the exhibition, quotes and reviews, together with works from the Moderna Museet Collection, including Marilyn Monroe in Black and White (1962), Chelsea Girls (1966), Ten-Foot Flowers (1967), Electric Chair (1967), and several versions of Brillo Boxes, raising questions of original and copy in art.

    The exhibition also features the documentary Brillo Box (3 ¢ off) (2016), by Lisanne Skyler and produced by HBO Documentary Film. The film, which was shortlisted for an Oscar, tells the incredible story of the Brillo Box that was bought for one thousand dollars, and sold for three million dollars just over 40 years later. A series of discussions will take place on three evenings, 5 and 19 October and 23 November, with philosophical, aesthetic and religious perspective on Andy Warhol and the politically turbulent year of 1968.

    The exhibition will be presented at Moderna Museet Malmö 23 March-8 September 2019.

    Picture 1) Interiörbild från utställningen Andy Warhol på Moderna Museet 1968 Foto: Lasse Olsson/DN/SCANPIX

    Picture 2) Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe in Black and White (Twenty-Five Marilyns), 1962 © 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York/Bildupphovsrätt

    Picture 3) Andy Warhol , Ten-Foot Flowers, 1967 © 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York/Bildupphovsrätt

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