NORDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE NORTH BY NORTHWEST FASHION COMPETITION
NORDIC HERITAGE MUSEUM ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF THE
NORTH BY NORTHWEST FASHION COMPETITION
Sarah Borruso wins Judge's Award, and Meg Lord wins the Volvo's People's Choice Award
Photos, photos and....more photos
Here are some photos from both the exhibition and the 2011 NFB Fashion Summit. Take a look!
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The Nordic Fashion Biennale needs help this Sunday!
via: Blackbird blog;
Calling all able-bodied supporters of the arts who have a Sunday to spare! Henrik Vibskov and the Nordic Heritage Museum are looking for volunteers to help with the painting and construction of some wooden sets this Sunday, the 25th September. The sets are to be used by Vibskov in his anxiously-awaited performance next Saturday night at the close of the 2011 Fashion Summit.
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Upcoming events
NFB 2011 Fashion Summit
The Nordic Fashion Biennale Symposium is a two day event co-sponsored by the Nordic House in Reykjavik and the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle. The symposium will include prominent speakers and inspiring presentations on themes like sustainability and fashion, slow-fashion and cultural heritage. The symposium is open to designers, fashion students and anyone with an interest in fashion, cultural heritage and sustainability. Here below you will see list of all speakers.
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Looking Back to Find our Future
The Nordic Fashion Biennale 2011 exhibition has the title Looking back to find our future and is curated by Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, a.k.a. Shoplifter. Check out all participating designers in the designers section.
Design Competition N / Nw
The N x NW Fashion Competition is one element of the Nordic Fashion Biennale (September 30–November 13, 2011) taking place this fall at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, Washington, curated by New
York-based Icelandic artist Hrafnhildur Arnardottir. The exhibition Looking Back to Find our Future will include fashion and jewelry from Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, and
Norway. The N x NW fashion competition was designed to inspire creativity, encourage emerging designers to seek out new directions, and spark awareness of new trends in Nordic fashion.
Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (Iceland)
A Fulbright Scholar, Åslaug holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an LLM from Duke University School of Law and an undergraduate degree in Law from the University of Iceland. With these degrees she has worked to revolutionize the fashion industry, before creating her own site, Moda Operandi, she headed up merchandising for Gilt Noir, the exclusive club within the Gilt Group site. Moda Operandi changes the game for high end fashion acquisition once again by making designs not chosen by buyers and not mass produced, available to the general public. An Icelandic native, Åslaug has lived and worked in New York and London for the past 10 years. She's been dubbed 'fashion's fairy godmother' by Vogue and ‘one of the most influential people in British retail' by Draper'