• Paula Modersohn-Becker and the Worpswede Artists’ Colony

    Written by Fashion Tales

    For the first time ever in Sweden, a more comprehensive presentation of the artists’ colony founded in 1889 in the village of Worpswede just outside Bremen is being exhibited. The Worpswede colony, the best known artists’ colony in Germany, was to be the haunt of a number of eminent German artists and writers in the years around 1900. The exhibition comprises about 70 works and offers a unique opportunity to discover a visual world which, despite its fascination, is virtually unknown in Sweden. These include works by the internationally acclaimed painter Paula Modersohn-Becker as well as Otto Modersohn, Heinrich Vogeler, Ottilie Reylaender and others.

    In recent years Prince Eugen’s Waldemarsudde has focused on the significance of artists’ colonies in the late 19th and early 20th century for art in Europe. Our studies of artists’ colonies as phenomena is now being supplemented by this extensive exhibition about the artists’ colony in the German village of Worpswede. This is the first exhibition in Sweden that focuses on these expressive works with their atmospheric landscapes, sensitive depictions of the poor north-German peasantry, portraits and evocative motifs from myths and folk-tales painted by the artists at Worpswede around the year 1900.

    The exhibition, which contains about 60 paintings and a number of drawings and prints offers visitors a chance to make the acquaintance of very interesting visual art that is virtually unknown in Sweden. Today Paula Modersohn-Becker is the most acclaimed and famous Worpswede artist and the one most richly represented in the exhibition through the loan of 17 of her works. Particular focus has been placed on the period in which she was active at Worpswede. Other artists exhibited are Otto Modersohn, Heinrich Vogeler, Ottilie Reylaender, Hans am Ende, Fritz Overbeck, Hermine Overbeck- Rohte, Fritz Mackensen and Marie Bock. There are also references to the famous poet Rainer Maria Rilke, who spent some time at Worpswede, in the exhibition and the catalogue. The works on display have been loaned to us by a large number of museums, collections and private individuals in Germany. Worpsweder Museumsverbund has been an important partner in the extensive work on this exhibition.

    “As the museum’s Director General and exhibition’s curator, when I made a visit to Worpswede, I became fascinated by the atmosphere there: the ehtereal alleys of birch trees in the flat landscape that surrounds the village, the calmly flowing waterways as well as by the beautiful works created there at the turn of the century around 1900. It is with great pleasure and pride that this autumn Waldemarsudde can now enable visitors to experience the atmospheric landscapes, psychologically penetrating depictions of people and the wealth of polysemously symbolic fairy-tale motifs offered by around 70 works that have been generously loaned to us by a large number of museums and collections in, for instance, Worpswede, Fischerhude, Bremen and elsewhere in Germany,” says Waldemarsudde’s Director General, Karin Sidén.

    The exhibition is supplemented by a profusely illustrated catalogue with articles by German, French and Swedish experts. In connection with the opening of the exhibition the publishing company Norstedts is issuing a Swedish translation of the acclaimed novel by the French author Marie Darrieussecq about Paula Modersohn-Becker’s brief life and interesting oeuvre, Être ici est une splendeur. Marie Darrieussecq is also one of the contributors to the museum’s exhibition catalogue together with a couple of German and Swedish experts. The exhibition also includes a slide show, a concert, lectures (among them one by Marie Darrieussecq) and a programme for children and young people.

    The exhibition runs between 15 September 2018 – 27 January 2019

    Picture 1) Heinrich Vogeler, Vår, 1897. Olja på duk, 175 x 150 cm. Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung und Waldemar Koch Stiftung. Deponerad vid Heinrich Vogeler Stiftung Haus

    Picture 2) Paula Modersohn-Becker, Betande skimmel i månskenet, 1901. Olja på kartong och trä, 50 x 56,4 cm. Otto Modersohn-Museum, Fischerhude.

  • Uniqlo U 2018 Fall/Winter Collection

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    Uniqlo U 2018 Fall/Winter Collection to Launch Globally from Thursday, September 20. Wardrobe essentials feature vivid seasonal color palette and in-trend volumes.

    September 13, 2018, Tokyo, Japan – UNIQLO today announces that it will roll out the Uniqlo U 2018 Fall/Winter collection from Thursday, September 20. The collection represents a commitment to reinventing basics as the future of LifeWear.

    The Christophe Lemaire-led design team at the UNIQLO Paris R&D Center is constantly evolving its advanced ideas for the Uniqlo U designs, patterns, fabric development, and sewing techniques. Since the line’s debut two years ago, its mainstay items have become even more attractive, with its innovations transforming into contemporary essentials. The latest collection features a vivid fall and winter color palette and designs with in-trend volumes. It is elegantly timeless while showcasing diverse ideas that symbolize the future of LifeWear.

    The collection features brilliant reds and fuchsias as rich and warm accents that symbolize the coming of fall. The styling for this season emphasizes volume through dolman sleeves for women’s fleece blousons and boxy silhouettes for men’s fleece jackets. Women’s items exude comfort and confidence, while men’s pieces convey unpretentious relaxation.

    The range includes men’s and women’s BLOCKTECH coats that is water repellent and windproofed. Women’s coats wick away inside moisture and have snap-on hoods, with hem slits that enhance comfort when walking or seated. This season sees 3D knits employing advanced WHOLEGARMENT technology for beautiful silhouettes that are also comfortable. There are two dress and three sweater designs for women. A special spinning technique has resulted in raised looks and soft textures in mélange sweaters. There are also sweaters with vintage-style link knitting and items in comfortable ponte fabrics.

    Profile of Christophe Lemaire Christophe Lemaire has been designing his namesake collection since 1991 and has served as Artistic Director of Lacoste and Artistic Director of women’s ready-to-wear at Hermès. In 2015 he partnered with UNIQLO resulting in the UNIQLO AND LEMAIRE collaboration collections for Fall/Winter 2015 and Spring/Summer 2016. Christophe Lemaire was appointed Artistic Director of the UNIQLO Paris R&D Center in 2016, where he and his handpicked team of designers create the Uniqlo U collection.

  • Warhol 1968

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    Warhol 1968 is an exhibition about the Andy Warhol exhibition at Moderna Museet in 1968. It also explores the complexity of Warhol’s practice from the perspective of the life-changing murder attempt, which took place that year. The exhibition includes the now-famous cow wallpaper that covered the facade of the Museum in 1968, wall photos from the exhibition, quotes and reviews, juxtaposing them with works from the Moderna Museet Collection.

    1968 was a politically turbulent year in Sweden and internationally, with reactions against the Vietnam war, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, student demonstrations and the tennis riots in Båstad. This was also the year when Andy Warhol’s very first solo museum exhibition opened at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Due to the left-wing climate that prevailed in Sweden, especially in the arts, the organisers anticipated an onslaught of criticism against the exhibition for being American propaganda. However, the opinions of Sweden’s art critics differed widely. Aftonbladet’s art critic Bengt Olvång wrote that “we can’t deny Warhol his position as an intense, disillusioned truth-seeker”, while Ulf Linde at Dagens Nyheter exclaimed, “Warhol has filled me with distaste.” 

    “'There is nothing behind the surface of my works,' Warhol said in 1967. But that is not entirely true. Even if his art grew more commercially speculative after the shooting in 1968, he continued to hold up a more or less critical mirror to the face of American mass media and consumerism, albeit of a different nature,” says John Peter Nilsson, curator. Warhol became part of the contemporary popular and mass media culture he had previously described. In the 1970s, he was New York’s most glamorous celebrity and epitomised the nightclub Studio 54. He designed the first advertising campaign for the then Swedish government-owned brand Absolut Vodka. He was commissioned to make portraits of famous people or less famous people who could afford it.

    “Warhol was a practising Catholic since childhood, and was aware of how religion was being replaced by mass media and consumerism in the 20th century. He was also obsessed with death and catastrophes. There is a melancholy side to his oeuvre which originates in this,” says John Peter Nilsson,

    The exhibition Warhol 1968 looks back at the exhibition of 1968, featuring the now famous cow wallpaper that covered the facade of Moderna Museet, wall photos from the exhibition, quotes and reviews, together with works from the Moderna Museet Collection, including Marilyn Monroe in Black and White (1962), Chelsea Girls (1966), Ten-Foot Flowers (1967), Electric Chair (1967), and several versions of Brillo Boxes, raising questions of original and copy in art.

    The exhibition also features the documentary Brillo Box (3 ¢ off) (2016), by Lisanne Skyler and produced by HBO Documentary Film. The film, which was shortlisted for an Oscar, tells the incredible story of the Brillo Box that was bought for one thousand dollars, and sold for three million dollars just over 40 years later. A series of discussions will take place on three evenings, 5 and 19 October and 23 November, with philosophical, aesthetic and religious perspective on Andy Warhol and the politically turbulent year of 1968.

    The exhibition will be presented at Moderna Museet Malmö 23 March-8 September 2019.

    Picture 1) Interiörbild från utställningen Andy Warhol på Moderna Museet 1968 Foto: Lasse Olsson/DN/SCANPIX

    Picture 2) Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe in Black and White (Twenty-Five Marilyns), 1962 © 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York/Bildupphovsrätt

    Picture 3) Andy Warhol , Ten-Foot Flowers, 1967 © 2018 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York/Bildupphovsrätt

  • Wood Wood meets Moomin for Save the Children

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    In a shared commitment, Wood Wood, Moomin and Save the Children have joined forces in a collaboration benefitting children in need. The three partners have created a small range of products for children and adults alike and all proceeds from the sales of the collection benefit the work of Save the Children.

    The wonderful universe of Moomin meets Wood Wood’s sustainable Double A product range in a small capsule collection for the benefit of Save the Children. In the collaboration the Moomin characters interact with Wood Wood’s Double A logo. Moomintroll, Snork Maiden and Little My all join the cause and are seen drifting on a cloud, parachute jumping with an umbrella and kicking a Double A patch around.

    Sophia Jansson, niece to the creator of Moomin Tove Jansson, who is Artistic Director at Oy Moomin Characters, Ltd. says: ”I am so happy about the collaboration between Wood Wood and Moomin for Save the Children as it puts focus on those who are the most vulnerable and at the same time are our future. Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories often centre around those who need comfort and attention, and on how important it is that they are heard and seen, and ultimately treated nicely. Wood Wood shares those values, and I am so thankful they wished to include Moomin in their campaign.” – Sophia Jansson

    The capsule consists of two kids T-shirts, a long sleeved T-shirt as well as an adult unisex T-shirt and unisex hoodie. The foundation for the collaboration is the Double A by Wood Wood range and all items are made of organic cotton. The products are all kept in grey melange and white with red Moomin characters. The collection was launched on September 15 and are sold exclusively at Wood Wood stores including woodwood.com.

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  • WILLIAM MORRIS - MORE THAN FLORAL WALLPAPER

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    William Morris - more than floral wallpaper is the first exhibition in Sweden of the versatile English designer William Morris, whose ideas on craft and quality spread throughout Europe at the turn of the 20th century. Through artworks, wallpaper, fabrics and furniture the exhibition presents his life and work. It is the story of a successful businessman and manufacturer who was also a fervent socialist. 

    Ask anyone who William Morris is and you will probably receive a hesitant smile in reply. Then ask if they are familiar with Morris wallpaper and they will probably light up and answer: “Oh, I love floral Morris wallpaper!” William Morris’ designs for textiles and wallpapers are much appreciated in Sweden but few know much about the man behind the patterns. In his native Britain, William Morris is a national treasure. As the leading figure in the British Arts and Crafts Movement, Morris has left a rich legacy and there are several museum-based homes where William Morris’ furnishings are preserved.

    William Morris (1834-1896) was a true multidisciplinarian who, during his 62-year-long life, devoted himself to such diverse activities as art, architecture, the preservation of old buildings, as well as design and crafts. He was the author of novels and poetry; he founded publishing companies and designed fonts. He was interested in Icelandic sagas which he translated into English. He was a socialist and also a successful entrepreneur and businessman.

    William Morris’ divergent commitments were the result of a desire to create a better and more beautiful world for people. In protest against the conservative Victorian society, which was being transformed due to industrialisation, Morris wanted to revive traditional craftsmanship and small-scale manufacturing and provide dignified living conditions for all. As a socialist he fought for justice and equality.

    Produced by Millesgården, the exhibition is a collaboration with the William Morris Gallery, the William Morris Society and Style Library in London. 

    The exhibition runs between 15 SEPTEMBER - 3 FABRUARY 2019.

    Picture 1): William Morris, Strawberry thief wallpaper. ©William Morris Gallery, London, Borough of Waltham Forest. 

    Picture 2): Portrait of William Morris. ©William Morris Gallery

  • Cervera - Mist

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    Cervera, Sweden's leading retail chain for kitchens and homes, continues to develop products under its own brand Table Top Stories and expand the popular Dish Mist with new parts and color glazes.

    The rustic and trendy stoneware Mist was presented in Sweden for the first time in 2017 in Black, matt glaze with meltered details. The dinnerware was immediately a top seller and is now expanding several new parts as well as the colors white and gray. Inspired by the Asian food culture is the service adapted for the modern pick-up dinner where the dishes are composed directly in the bowl or on the plate.

    “The Asian kitchen is today well established and widespread in Sweden and has recently become the new in home cooking. We see that many of today's meals are influenced by colorful bowls, hot noodles and Asian fusion. Something we now lift into our dinnerware Mist, says Erika Dalle, Marketing Manager Cervera.

    The new parts in the dinnerware Mist are ovenproof plates, deep bowls and smaller soy sauce bowls. Mist are sold exclusively in Cervera stores and online from August 20th, 2018.

    The tablewear includes plate white 27 cm (109 kr), plate white 22 cm (89 kr), breakfast bowl white 15 cm (89 kr), ovenproof bowl white 24 cm (279 kr), mug white 37 cl (79 kr), ovenproof plate white 30 cm (199 kr), deep plate white 19 cm (109 kr.), soy sauce bowl white 11 cm (69 kr), plate gray 27 cm (109 kr), plate gray 22 cm (89 kr), breakfast bowl gray 15 cm (89 kr), mug gray 37 cl (79 kr), deep plate gray 19 cm (109 kr), soy sauce bowl gray 11 cm (69 kr), ovenproof plate black 24 cm (279 kr), ovenproof plate black 30 cm (199 kr), deep plate black 19 cm (109 kr) and soy sauce bowl black 11 cm (69 kr).

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