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Fashion week reports by Derek Blasberg

Published: 06 Sep 2012

Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week hit Stockholm like a tornado, and left us in a whirlwind of fashion inspiration. Jetlagged ABBA hunter and fashion writer Derek Blasberg reports from the Swedish fashion shows.

Day 3: Swedish designers Hope and Hernández Cornet.

Day 2: Swedish designers Dagmar, The Local Firm, Filippa K Man, J.Lindeberg and Cheap Monday.

Day 1: Swedish designers Altewai Saome, Whyred, Carin Wester and Filippa K.

This feature has been published by the Swedish Institute.



Swedish word of the day

bokmal

noun

En bokmal läser väldigt många böcker.

A bookworm reads an awful lot of books.

@Sweden

@sweden:
@Gnocken :-)

@sweden:
@Pandagrrl try it out @nikder @copy_this

@sweden:
This is my favourite gif. Actually did this some week a go (I'm not one in the gif). Big success of course. http://t.co/B4vBKuWH

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