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9.11.2011

Hello everyone! Now the last days of our exhibition at The Nordic Heritage Museum is upon us. We encourage you all to visit our exhibition before it is taken down. You have until the 14th of November to experience Nordic creativity.
On our Facebook site you can see a lot of great photos taken by Áslaug Íris Friðjónsdóttir. We are already planning for the next Nordic Fashion Biennale and we will post the news about when and where here on our site. We want to thank the Nordic Heritage Museum specially for being so great to work with and giving our exhibition such a great backdrop. Another person to thank is our curator, Hrafnhildur Arnardótir, wich has created an amazing exhibition. We have for the NFB 2011 A perfect match between curator and venue!

So many people contributed to the NFB 2011 project. The Nordic House Reykjavík, owner and producer of the Nordic Fashion Biennale, wishes to thank the staff of NFB 2011:

Max Dager, CEO, Nordic House Reykjavík
Eric Nelson, CEO, Nordic Heritage Museum
Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, curator of NFB 2011, www.shoplifter.us
Ilmur Dögg Gísladóttir, project manager.
Line Sandsmark, project coordinator, Seattle.
Hilda Cullen, Nordic Heritage Museum, communications and marketing director
Stina Cowan, Nordic Heritage Museum, education associate
Kirsten Olsen, Nordic Heritage Museum, exhibitions coordinator
Chanta Chay, Nordic Heritage Museum, development associate
Edda Guðmundsdóttir, 2011 NFB Fashion Summit coordinator and moderator
Áslaug Íris Friðjónsdóttir, off site events coordinator, photography and more
Bjarney Hinriksdóttir, Graphic design, www.baddydesign.com
Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson, website design
All staff of the Nordic House In Reykjavík
Last but not least; All participating designers and speakers in The Nordic Fashion Biennale 2011.

Thank you.

Upcoming events

30.6.2011 : 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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14.4.2011 : 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.

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27.4.2011 : 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.

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22.9.2011 : 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'

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