H&M’s new design collaboration will be with the French high fashion house Lanvin. The collection consist of both women and men’s wear, and will be in stores on November 23d. Can’t say I am not excited about this. Lanvin is one of the greatest fashion houses there is, and even though I wasn’t all that excited about their collaboration with Acne, I have big hopes for this collection.

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Stopped by Maria at work on Saturday and had a look at the new Acne store. And it is just so beautiful. Whoever does the interior at Acne is a genius. Address: Øvre slottsgate 11 (just down the street from Egertorget).

Want these. Too bad I’ve already spent waaay more than my shoe budget allows.

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Hello gracious people, since the last time we had a chat I’ve seen some shows, consumed some alcohol, taken a few pictures, mingled some, been interviewed about the exciting topic of blogging, bought a new pair of shoes, celebrated a birthday and generally had a good time.

One of my favorite shows so far is Abebo J.B. Getachew’s contribution during the Springbrett show. Springbrett is Farmhouse’s way of giving new Norwegian talents a chance to showcase their clothes, this year with OFW as venue, and Abebo was by far my favorite. The silhouettes, mixture of fabric and the fact that the sculptured parts of it are not too over the top. These dresses and corsets can actually be used by more people than Lady Gaga and Beyonce. Can’t wait to see more from this designer.

While I’m not really a fan of this look, I always love to see Rikke on the catwalk. That goes for Julia and Marianne as well.

Met up with Christoffer to chat and look at people and do whatever else one does when you’re “mingeling”.

Visited Batlak&Selvig and ooh-ed and aah-ed over the beautiful seams and details, while still not getting the status they’ve got as unreachable and next to perfect designers in the Norwegian Fashion sphere. I might have something to learn that I am oblivious to now.

Spent some more time in front of the Kongressenter, stressing around until the battery on my camera died. No camera = no work done = no stress. So I leaned back and enjoyed Fam Irvoll’s show. Which was over-the-top fantastic. The models, the music, the mood in the crowd, Fam’s shows are always one big party. You can see pictures of the collection itself here. The party continued at Fugazi of course, with already mentioned consumption of  alcohol.

And oh, the shoes I bought…. Well, I do love sale, and I will show you why tomorrow. Right now I’m going to enjoy a large cup of coffee and baileys and some good company.

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Jeg hadde ikke tenkt å uttale meg om den katastrofen som er deler av Oslo Fashion Weeks program i år, men etter mye om og men fant jeg ut at jeg ihvertfall skal komme med en liten kommentar. At folk som hverken har en utdannelse innenfor mote eller på noen måte har utmerket seg som stilikoner skal få lov til å vise frem kolleksjonene sine på det som skal være den nasjonale scenen for norsk mote blir for meg ubegripelig. En ting er at de skal få lov til å designe klær, dem om det, men OFW burde være (som moteuken er i andre land) basert på kvalitet og fremstå som det beste av det beste av det landet har å by på.

Pia Haraldsens kolleksjon for Agape er hverken nyskapende, godt håndverk eller interessant, og hører etter min mening hjemme på sider a la illusions.no eller lignende. Syns forøvrig Marianne klarer å treffe spikeren på hodet med uttalelsene sine i artikkelen på tv2.no. At designere som Fam Irvoll, Batlak & Selvig og Nina Jarebrink skal sidestilles med Pia og russedress blir like banalt som at Charter-Svein og andre realitykjendiser får sitte front row under visninger.

Personlig etterlyser jeg en kompetent jury sammensatt av folk fra forskjellige deler av bransjen som kan gå igjennom å godkjenne hva som skal få lov til å vises på catwalken under OFW, uavhengig av hvor stor PR de kan skape. Ville også gjerne ha sett at man i Norge i større grad kunne ha et forum som gir finansiell og annen type støtte til de mange designtalentene som faktisk eksisterer i Norge. For vi har mange dyktige unge (og eldre) designere som rett og slett ikke har kapital til å vise seg frem for et større publikum i Norge og det er synd.

Gleder meg til å mange av visningene under Oslo Fashion Week, men kommer for første gang til å boikotte to av visningene. Ikke det at det kommer til bety noe for noen, men for min del er det en prinsippsak fordi jeg rett og slett ikke klarer å støtte opp under det budskapet de to visningene sender ut.

After two days of rest I am getting ready for a new fashion week, and although I wanted to attend Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in Stockholm, economy is an issue that keeps bothering me. I think I need to win the lottery or marry rich soon, because all this prioritizing is making me depressed. Well, anyways, it’s time for Oslo Fashion Week, which means shows by designers such as Fam Irvoll, Nina Jarebrink, Moods of Norway, Batlak & Selvig, Linn Renée Blegeberg +++ My week will look something like this (excluding various after-parties and such):

WEDNESDAY: Springbrett – White Baron- Venti Uno -  Little CupCakes by Fam Irvoll – Batlak og Selvig – Fam by Fam Irvoll

THURSDAY: Bouquet - Mariette - OFW TREND SHOW – Bjørn Borg – ELM – Linn Renée Blegeberg – Nina Jarebrink – Daniel Franck

FRIDAY: Armando Santos – Morami – Grand Opening ROE’S FASHIONHOOD – Moods of Norway

Tonight is all about my aunt who turns 50 today (congratulations!), so I need to empty my bags, get things washed and figure out what I am going to wear tonight.

Will I be seeing any of you during the fashion week?
(Remember, most of the shows will be open to the public, so anyone can attend.)

DRESS h&m fashion against aids LEATHER VEST + NECKLACE second-hand BAG 5preview BRA h&m

Started the day with a beer and Simon Rasmussen’s eccentric show at Carlsberg, inspired by prostitutes and hobos. While the two first models poured milk all over themselves and showed off some pretty nasty dance moves (they were good btw!), I did not find it as provoking as it was probably meant to be, but I nevertheless enjoyed the show. Felt nice to have a break from the serious and clean that we’ve seen a lot during this fashion week.

Jumped into the press bus and was transported to the City Hall to see the designer we all love, Veronica B Vallenes and met Celine (love her bracelet). This is btw what Maria has been busy doing a lot the last few days, posing for the camera. No wonder with the clothes she wears (of which most is self-made. Raise your hands everyone who wants her to start her own clothing line right now).

Also met Line – who looked smashing with her hat. Took some pictures at Veronica’s show, but I am not even going to pretend that they were any good (they were crap), so go see them here. Liked her collection a lot, but was disappointed by the fact that she didn’t really bring anything new to the table. You could take anything from this seasons collection and place it in last season’s, and although I would wear just about every piece of the collection, I had wished for something new in forms of the color palette or seams.

The day continued with an all Norwegian show consisting of Iis of Norway, TSH, Undorn and Moods of Norway. Loved this top from TSH and the new shoes from Moods of Norway (will get back to you on a picture of those, because they were really cool and something I would love for my guys to wear), but other than that it was unfortunately pretty mediocre compared to everything else I have seen during this fashion week.

Paraded around with my new bag from 5preview (don’t you love it just a little? I certainly do) outside the Minimarket show, another show I enjoyed very much but which gave me pictures that were pretty much not in any condition to see the light of day. So once again, to see pictures of the gorgeous Sahara/nomad-inspired collection, go here.

Last show of the evening was a magical, mystical and weird show on top of a bridge over a lake in a some park (I admit I didn’t have a clue where we were, had a private chauffeur to the show and took a cab back), put together by the well-known brand Henrik Vibskov. The colors, patterns, fabrics and seams were in traditional Vibskov-style and I concluded with the fact that I would gladly include a lot of the garments in my wardrobe, including some of the very handsome male models.

And then it was party time !

CAPE second-hand LEATHER SHORTS zara BOOTS bianco TOP flat top WATCH sjarm BAG marc jacobs

Spent the first hours of my day today at a cafe called Cafe Europa 1989 at Høybro Plads, reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (nearly finished it now), drinking coffee and waiting for Maria to arrive.

Moved along to breakfast/brunch and champagne at Dyreberg&Kern, and while most of the others stood around sipping on a glass champagne (or orange juice), we were more concerned with eating enough cupcakes than actually getting a good look at the new collection.

Did fall in love with this necklace and it’s not too expensive either, so it might just happen to slip right into my accessory collection. Out of the blue you know, not because I spent my student loan on necklaces instead of food and other so-called vital needs.

Lost one bus, didn’t locate the other and finally jumped into a taxi which drove us to the Danish Design School’s show, which was just about as out-there as bachelor collections should be. This particular “outfit” reminds me of the last VATLE show for some reason.

Felt a sort of childish love for the red scarf around her head, and had to resist pretty ridiculous cravings to make one on my own. Think it looks a lot better on the model than it will ever do on me.

Sat thinking about how these would be the perfect new shades for Monica/Miss Harmonica, when I was hit..

.. by the wonder that was these shoes. I don’t even really want to wear them. I just want to have them on display in my bookshelves. Pretty please?

Had to take a break after the shoe-gasm and calm down with a cup of coffee and force Maria to take pictures of me. 90% featured me with my trademark goofy face, luckily I look sort of normal on this one. Sort of.

After the well-deserved coffeebreak we attended the Official Opening of Copenhagen Fashion Week, and while I thought the clothes being shown (YDE) were a bit boring, I loved the interior of the room, which was located in the City Hall. Almost regal.

Didn’t really get any good pictures from Spon Diogo + Moonspoon Saloon so we’ll just skip elegantly passed those two shows for the time being and continue going through the events of the day. Lunch break meant facebook – mail – facebook – facebook – facebook. Neh, I’m not a facebook-addict. I just like spending 90% of my time on the internet snooping around in other peoples lives and leading a wannabee social life on fb.

Tried to take a decent outfit photo and realized that I probably should have done that about 4 hours earlier when the sun was still shining. Will hopefully learn and don’t do the same mistake tomorrow.

When we got tired of taking breaks we hit the streets and ended up on the Bllack Noir show. Heavily influenced (in my opinion) by Diesels Black&Gold line, I was more interested in the fact that Danish producer, song-writer and X-factor judge; Remee, was sitting right behind us. Probably the only Danish celebrity I know of (except for Mads Mikkelsen), so I was slightly starstruck.

Finished the day with Soulland, a show which contained plenty of eye candy as well as a collection that I certainly wouldn’t mind dressing any of my boys in. Casual, fresh, simple (in every positive way) and very Danish. You can view pictures of the entire collection here.

NOW, bed. <3

While Zara’s campaigns usually leaves me with a certain realization that my bank account will be cleared when the collection arrives in stores, I am not at all impressed by their latest campaign. The silhouettes, the fabrics and the styling is well.. cheap. The greasy haired look we saw on Alexander Wang’s models in February is present, and I’m still not buying the coolness of that style. The silhouettes are unflattering and the fabric looks harsh and stiff. Did however find two things I liked, which will probably sneak themselves into my wardrobe at some point, the grey maxi dress with a v-neck and the knitted poncho (both in the pictures above).

Then again, this is my opinion. What do you think?

For more campaign pictures, visit fashiongonerogue.

Four days left until I leave for Copenhagen Fashion Week, and the different pieces are coming together one by one. A friend of mine has been kind enough to let me borrow his department during the stay and my dad some money seeing that was stupid enough to forget applying for my student loan (done now, but it will take some time before I actually get the money). Looking forward to a new fashion week quite different from both OFW and Fashion Week by Berns in Stockholm.

Most of all I am excited about the design school shows, after attending Beckmans College of Design’s show during the fashion week in Stockholm last February. New young voices of fashion, the next generation. In Copenhagen I will be attending both The Danish Design School and Kolding School of Design, and I am hoping it will be inspiring.

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