This season, street fashion has hit an all time high in Nordic countries as men combine hobo with boho and the ladies are sporting chic nightclub worthy fashions at all times of the day!

Menswear

It’s military school drop out meets high school punk as a spectrum of styles for men collide. Capturing that “anything goes” attitude and looking as if they picked a few things up off of their dorm room floor, men street fashion is inspired by a myriad of looks. Cardigans, cut-offs and Converse are the three must haves for men this season. Scarves and trucker hats are accessories that can be found on every street corner and colors include a Mad Max array of muted reds, grays, khakis and navy.

The Look for Ladies

Sequins, sparkle and shine are hot day and night! From leopard prints to satin slacks, Scandinavian women can be spotted in everything from super short skirts to floor length dresses. Peep toe boots in animal prints are the “it” shoe and the bigger the accessory, the better. The same goes for purses, the over sized bag is the way to go right now. Black is in as always and shades of tan, gray and ivory are also heavy hitters for women in the color department.

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IVANAhelsinki spring/ summer 2010 “Leaving Circus” collection

London Fashion Week:

BFC Showrooms easternBLOCK stand 180 Strand London WC2

Dates: 18-22nd September Times: 9.30 – 7.00pm

Paris Fashion Week

Paris easternBLOCK 40 Rue Quincampoix Paris 75004

Dates: 2 – 7th October Times: 9.00 – 7.00pm

Chao & Eero come with new collection, RingRing.

Designers created the RingRing collection with a hint of the urban art form of graffiti, which they have been photographing many years in Finland and abroad during their trips.

These are serious designs with fun and playful attitude, so they are pretty much in line with all the jewelry they have been creating through out the years.

Made with the sense of humor each piece is definitely a good conversation opener.

As always, all the pieces are handmade and finished in Lahti, in their brand new studio, where Chao & Eero moved in the beginning of this year.

http://www.chaoandeerojewel.com/

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“About The W* House

We thought it only fair to throw open the doors to The W* House and share with you our wealth of experience in the design world.

From cutlery to cupboards, pots to plumbing, The W* House features our favourite pieces of design from around the globe, room by room. We’ll update them every time we find something new we like, building the collection into an archive for as long as the pieces are for sale.

Practicality isn’t often a buzzword at the Wallpaper* HQ, but when it comes to sharing our finds we wanted to keep things simple, letting you furnish your house the Wallpaper* way, with the click of a mouse.”

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Latest work from Hot Snow Design Studio: a logotype for online store of children clothes Модные детки (In Russian). Graphic Designer: Bronislav Gorlinsky.

Skills applied: Art direction, Graphic design, Brand creation
 Client: Модные Детки, 2009.

In this tough time of overall recession people starting to be more active and coming with new ideas, and some of them are successful and very useful for everybody. This online shop has been launched in an attempt to survive in difficult financial situation and help others. Now people in Russia can afford quality clothes for their kids on very reasonable prices. We are proud of being supporting this initiative and helping to create professionally looking identity for this handy online store.

Link: www.modniedetki.ru

You can see our other latest works on our site: http://hotsnow.fi/en/works

Chrome Hearts sunglasses top’s the cake when it comes to extraordinary styles! Chrome Hearts sunglasses is a designer brand that was founded many years ago by a motorcycle enthusiast. It took that motorcycle enthusiast 19 months to design the first collection of Chrome hearts sunglasses.

It was 19 months of designing and developing one of the best flawless products out today. The precise detailing on the Chrome Hearts sunglasses is just one of the reasons Chrome Hearts sunglasses are an expensive brand, but well worth the money fore sure! (more…)

See you at IVANAhelsinki presentation on March 5th, Thursday in Paris in Galerie Celal.

“STARRAIN BITTERSWEET SORROW sky cries his stars down, salty tears to rivers to run to the seven seas, sparkling pain pearls, they light up the raising new day. Never been brighter, I think, I´ll stay”

Welcome to IVANAhelsinki ” Star Rain” art presentation with coctails Thursday, March 5th 19.30 to 22.30 Galerie Celal, 45 Rue Saint Honoré Paris 1st

Just print this invitation attached.

RSVP and press info: press@lappartpr.fr tel. + 33 1 44 55 0470

We are presenting the new fall/ winter 2009/ 2010 “ STAR RAIN” collection in Paris at ” Workshop”

From March 5th to 8th, 2009

At Cercle Républicain

5, Avenue de L’Opera

Paris 1st WWW.WORKSHOPFASHIONAGENCY.COM

See you in Paris!

A symphony for the eye, nurture for the mind and inspiration for the future; The Nordic House, Iceland, is proud to announce that in 19.03-05.04 2009 we will be hosting Nordic Fashion Biennale. This is the first time an event like this is being held and this year we are focusing on fashion and jewelry from the vest-Nordic countries: Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland.

This year’s main event is “In front of Creativity” a design exhibition portraying the cream of vest-Nordic fashion selected by the curator Matthias Wagner K. His selection shows how influential nature is for vest-Nordic designers. This can be seen in use of material, colors and form.

The highlight of Nordic Fashion Biennale is the Icelandic Design Days. Then the Nordic House will be filled with Icelandic fashion design, showrooms and parties.

Other events include The Fashion Conscience: A conference on sustainability and the fashion industry, inspiring talks from successful Nordic designers such as Nickie Isaksen from Greenland, Barbara i Gongini from Faroe Islands, Steinunn from Iceland and GudrunogGudrun from Faroe Islands, seminar about future cooperation between vest-Nordic fashion designers. Nordic Street Style photo exhibition will be at the Social-bar where other events like talks and Fashion-Cinema will also take place.

In front of creativity, Nordic Fashion Biennale, is a forum for professionals, a cultural festival for city-dwellers and visitors. This is the place for inspiration and critical thinking.

The Nordic Fashion Biennale website is now open and will be updated regularly with media material as well as information about the event and speakers. Visit us at: www.nordicfashionbiennale.com

We welcome all friends of fashion design and fine jewelry to visit us and explore what Nordic Fashion Biennale has to offer. For further information please contact us at info@nordicfashionbiennale.com

www.nordicfashionbiennale.com

IVANAhelsinki is an exclusive art fashion brand. It brings delicately together Slavic rough melancholity and pure Scandinavian moods.

Paola Ivana Suhonen is the artist behind the fashion pieces, starting from her dark naive mind-landscapes, northern legends and western romantics, doing prints, graphics, shortmovies and well, everything that is involved with the visuals. She runs the family-owned company with her older sister Pirjo. Every single IVANAhelsinki piece is ateljee manufactured in Finland. The whole production philosophy is based on ethical and ecological choises. There are a lot of handmade details and traditional Finnish handcraft methods are featured.

“IVANAhelsinki started as my personal art-project, now it’s a way of living to us. I could easily spend my life travelling around and go to my road trips, but it is pretty much ok to do cute, straight cotton and woollen dresses for charismatic drummer girls and girl women. They are the ones who love moonlight fields, pirates, dark forests, crummy motels, champagne state of drunkness, fragile butterflies, unstable relationships, cowboys and guardian angels. After all, I’m sure they are just after a love of their lives, just waiting to see, will he be a rockstar, a motor biker, a gnome, a cosmonaut or a sailor.”

Paola Ivana Suhonen is a Helsinki born designer and artist. Her most well known for her own art fashion brand IVANAhelsinki which has in 10 years grown to an international art brand. The essential part of IVANAhelsinki is the design clothing line. Paola Ivana has been in charge for the design and art management of this line ever since 1998 when it was established. Paola Ivana has done several alternative projects where fashion, design and modern art have been combined. “I am not fixated with certain materials just the opposite; different materials are ways and means for me to express my own, inner world. The pieces I have created are souvenirs of my soul world.

In addition to her own personal design and art projects, Paola Ivana Suhonen has done product development, graphical and concept designing for example for Head Snowboards, HP Sauce, Google, Swarovski, Coca-Cola, Canon, Amnesty International and Mori Art Center in Tokyo just to mention a few. She has designed “Saimaa” dish serie for Finnish traditional porcelain company Kermansavi and “Guardian Dog” jewellery for Kaipaus. Paola Ivana Suhonen has graduated from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki from the fashion and textile design department. Today she teaches in that very same university. In fall 2008 Paola will move to New York for a year to be more involved with her great love, the movie making.

Link: IVANAhelsinki

IVANAhelsinki was chosen together with six European fashion brands to create design for new Coca Cola Light packages.The campaign Flight for Fashion are Bambi by Laura from Barcelona, Spain, Baum und Pferdgarted from Copenhagen, Denmark, Normaluisa from Milan, Italy, Miriam Ocariz from Madrid, Spain and Snooz from Berlin, Germany.

The cans and the campaign launched in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg in the beginning of May. The special cans will be sold only in involved countries.

Link: IVANAhelsinki