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A 25-year-old digital storyteller whose work focuses on trends in contemporary culture, fashion, and feminism–with a constant curiosity when it comes to investigating the way in which those three can influence, and empower, each other.
Bylines can be seen in CR Fashion Book, ELLE Magazine, BUST Magazine, Mic.com, amongst others. Recent graduate from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Advertising and Marketing Communications major with a Journalism and English Writing focus.
Was Project Manager and Creative Strategist for a social media strategy campaign requested by John Varvatos, who wanted to find a way to revitalize their brand and make it desirable to a millennial audience. Our strategy was picked as “Best Content Marketing Plan” by the JV Digital Marketing team in 2018.
Created a mock-up from scratch (from conceptualizing to designing, layouting, and writing all content) for brand a new magazine title: fulfilling a gap in the magazine market for 50+ women who want to access high quality, high-end, and trend sensitive fashion/culture journalism that doesn't oblige to the ageist rules of what "older women want"
Fashion & Contemporary Trend Writing
Fashion can't get enough of faux fur. What was once seen as a cheap, knock-off alternative of the real thing, is now a trend cherished by celebrities, and praised by designers-who are, one after the other, making headlines for saying goodbye to animal fur.
Fashion has an odd relationship with ugliness. During the early aughts when socialites Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie were sporting Ed Hardy and Von Dutch hats, it was considered all the rage. Now, as '00s trends make their way back to the runway, the high-fashion crowd has begun wearing these kitschy designs in full irony of its perceived "ugliness."
Hedi Slimane has donned many hats over the past decade. From claiming fame as creative director for Dior Homme in the early aughts (which introduced his glam rock aesthetic to the world), and rebranding Yves Saint Laurent (infamously dropping the "Yves") in 2012; to, most recently, replacing Phoebo Philo at Celine (yes, Celine without an é)-his debut for the French house for Spring/Summer 2019 was met with plenty of skepticism from loyal fans of the brand.
Fashion is thinking pink at the moment with designers from New York to Paris showcasing their Spring/Summer 2019 collections. No matter how or where you wear the color, pink has always will always be a statement-one backed by a slew of powerful women from real and fictional past (Jackie O, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Elle Woods included.)
We look back at the famed fashion star's sartorial highlights on what would have been her 60th birthday
Academia chic is normally restricted to school auditoriums, cafeterias, and classrooms, but the Spring/Summer 2019 collections presented at New York Fashion Week proved otherwise. At Calvin Klein, Raf Simons was inspired by the 1975 Mike Nichols film, The Graduate, in which Dustin Hoffman plays a graduate dressed in mustard corduroy suits.
Fashion's most versatile pattern is loved by celebs including Marilyn Monroe, Princess Diana, Kate Moss, and Sarah Jessica parker
I am a self-proclaimed macromalist. I want maximized silhouettes, frills, big - no, huge - shiny bows. I want fifty shades of pink, layers of ruffles and all things that sparkle. I want over-the-top. More is more. I was born in Sweden, a country synonymous with upbeat pop songs, "fika" breaks, functioning welfare and gender equality.
I started working in fashion when I was 19. Two months into my first position as a stylist's assistant in New York, I was sexually harassed for the first time. A well-known male photographer who worked frequently with my boss invited me to his bedroom after a shoot, which was, conveniently, located right next to the studio portion of his live-in studio.
On Friday evening, Harper's Bazaar hosted its annual ICONS party in celebration of New York Fashion Week and its "Icons"-themed September Issue. It was attended by a slew of fashion's most well-known women - from Harper's Bazaar Fashion Director Carine Roitfield, Iris Apfel and Cindy Crawford to icons-in-the-making Gigi Hadid, Ashley Graham and Winnie Harlow.
Clippings of product pages and trend guides from my time as Fashion Assistant at Swedish Damernas Varld.
Styling
A KALTBLUT exclusive womenswear editorial. Photography by Eric Smedlund. Model is Olivia Hagèus @MIKAS Stockholm. Styled by Amanda Brohman. Hair and make-up by Mirja Andersson. "It is a crucial time for us women and girls to show off who we are, to parade our pink power boldly and openly, to provoke and resist.
Styled a fashion editorial on new Nordic fashion for Damernas Varld issue #2 2017
Politics & Feminism
Please note: This list is only focusing on accusations made since October 5, 2017, when the New York Times' piece on Harvey Weinstein was published. We are adding names of past accused abusers if people come forward with new allegations - that's why Roman Polanski and R.
Another day, another 93 Americans shot dead. I didn't get the numbers wrong, I'm talking about today. Because 93 is just the average number of people who are killed by gun violence on an average day in the United States.
By now, President Trump's judgment, or lack thereof, when it comes to his Twitter (and a majority of his public appearances) should come as no surprise to anyone. A myriad of racist, sexist, authoritarian and press-condemning tweets seem to have become the best way way to tell it's a new week in 2017's America.
Art, Culture, and Society
Chris Stein misses the New York that once was, yet he would never leave it. "It is what it is, the city becomes a part of you. It's corny to say but that's what happens," he tells CR.
I realized that what she said was important, and that it was the best thing she could have told us as young and newly-in-love fashion students. But that was exactly what we were at the time... nineteen and newly-in-love.