Sewing and redesign is trendy like never before. Thanks to (Norwegian) TV-concepts like “Symesterskapet” and a certain Norwegian celebrity, sewing has been lifted from a slightly dusty life amongst the world’s grandmothers to a passion with trendy urbanites. This is good news, and perhaps a natural reaction, in a world that is weighted down by […]
These are special times. The home-office that almost all are placed in , is challenging our self. We are forced out of the safety of the routine that our jobs give us, and risk having to see ourselves in a new, unfamiliar light. I fully understand that it feels good to go a bit easy […]
[ad for Juvena] Love yourself, they say. But what does that really mean? Those words are so much easier to serve to others than to yourself. But what if you started there? What if you taught yourself to be as kind to yourself as you would be with a dear friend? With that dust in […]
Here I’ve found all that glimmers in my closet and composed and party-ready outfit for those big occasions. Personally I like glitter and glam for those pre-Christmas parties or New Years Eve, but I don’t shy away from some everyday glitter, if I’m in the mood for that. With a yellow turtleneck and a blazer, […]
In a time where fashion perhaps should’t be called fashion anymore, but some parallel ideas and expressions, it might be silly to try and offer common references across these. But after having studied the collections for the season, some mutual ideas was so clearly appearing, that they must be called trends. I take pleasure in […]
There is a picture of me, somewhere deep in a photo album. It is blurry (maybe the lense was a little fatty?), but it doesn’t do anything else than make the picture extra romantic. The photo is from the early 80s. I’m wearing a homemade jumpsuit (it was called something else at that time), and […]
This is mum. She is 71 years old. She has never injected a syringe in her face, been close to a scalpel or filled in anything else than inside vitamins. yet she looks like this. Is there any wonder I’m proud? That doesn’t mean that the result of her aging is a miracle without any […]
Last week ended on a high cultural note, thanks to the vernissage of Christian Hauge and his Residence of Impermanence, in Galleri Fineart at Aker brygge, and the a trippel fashionshow, held at Sentralen in Oslo, the day after. These fashion shows were the closest the Oslo-audience came to a “fashion week” after Oslo Runway decided […]
I have some white shirts and blouses in my closet. But there is one, with a little collar, I use particularly much. It’s so easy to combine with different outfits, and can be used together with several items that I would have to hang away, because they would have been too cold for the winter. […]
DEAR FOLLOWERS Thank you so much for following me in 2017! It has been a year of the challenging kind, but in here – at my blog – things have been unusually warm. It will soon bee about 500 of you that want to read about my fashion world, and that is really big to […]
