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Beyond trends: how White Label Project’s founders are shifting the narrative around design and fashion

Lucy Pullicino — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:05:38 +0000

Ann-Kathrin and Caroline first met in Paris, a city that was new to both of them. Their shared love of fashion and design was enriched by their discovery of the city, exploring galleries and museums with eager eyes (“We would even sneak into Paris Fashion Week!”). Parting ways after their studies, they both found themselves

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Exploring immigrant identity through music with Swedish-Chilean DJ Cristian Dinamarca

root — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 04:32:35 +0000

Cristian has been a mainstay on the stages of Stockholm’s biggest clubs. He has his own record label called Staycore. He has released three EPs, the last of which prompted a three-week tour of Asia; playing in Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo to clubs packed with ardent, sweaty fans. And yet this worldview—a desire to be

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Mind over matter: Allan Spiegel on building a family home from the ground up

root — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 06:15:13 +0000

“I’m not an architect,” says Allan Spiegel, a self taught interior consultant who works with some of the biggest retail brands, restaurants and hotels in Sweden, as he pours himself a cup of coffee in his spacious kitchen. “’I’m just showing this space for my friends’ sake, the ones who made the drawings.” Yet, he

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In Good Company: Claesson, Koivisto and Rune on architecture, design and productive partnership

root — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 20:27:27 +0000

Despite their strikingly different personalities, the three soon became close friends. Two years later, while still in college, they launched an architecture and design firm, Claesson Koivisto Rune; now, two decades down the road, they haven’t looked back. Though many have been quick to label their aesthetic as Scandinavian, the designers rather it be thought

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Elin Larsson

root — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 00:55:48 +0000

If you ask Elin Larsson, the resemblance between nature and business isn’t far fetched. She believes that nature gives us cues on how to live our lives, and how to create sustainable fashion for the future. What started as a serendipitous encounter at a Christmas party 16 years ago, where Elin Larsson was offered to

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FvF Cooks in Stockholm: Orange-Hued Risotto

root — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 01:00:50 +0000

One of rice’s most appealing attributes is that it can wear a lot of hats, going from being simple and easy to intricately layered. The grain plays a great host to a wide range of ingredients and can both shine in the foreground or give off subtle notes in the background. Undoubtedly, this oriental grain

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FvF Cooks in Stockholm: Roasted Pear Salad

root — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 01:00:54 +0000

But, we tend to disagree and we’ve enlisted the help of Belén Vazquez Amaro for a case in point. Upon seeing and tasting this roasted pear salad with a confluence of approachable and exotic ingredients maybe you’ll rethink the statement as a previous non-believer or smugly say you had been convinced of the salad’s power

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FvF Cooks in Stockholm: Veggie Crumble

root — Sun, 01 Feb 2015 06:45:11 +0000

Belén first started her Yoga & Breakfast sessions after someone admired the colorful meal jars she prepared and enjoyed, almost ritualistically, after every yoga class. “There are a couple of things that led me to start the events: One morning after a class, I was eating some kind of packed homemade breakfast and someone told

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FvF Cooks in Stockholm: Yogi Salad

root — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:40:28 +0000

In a predictable fashion, the first months marked on our calendars are associated with a need for rejuvenation as most of us feel like we have to recoup a certain path of clear goals. With that thought in mind we’ve invited yoga instructor and chef, Belén Vazquez Amaro, to guide us through a series of vegan lunches for a

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Jon Bäcklund & Stina Ekström

root — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:31:26 +0000

In their private lives, they give themselves a rare space to realize their creative impulses. Over the last year these energies have been put towards renovations to a 1976 school bus. Jon originally purchased the vintage bus nine years ago as a family project, something to fix up with his brothers on weekends. Last summer,

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