Shop away!

Finally the webshop is live! Go crazy, knock yourselves out and by doing so be proud in helping out with the financing of The Fridge (and maybe a glass of champagne or two).

Robert&Blad - now cooler than ever!

Maybe the access to cold milk for the coffee doesn't render this kind off excitement in every workplace...

You all might not find the arrival of a fridge that exciting...
Studiomate Sofia got so caught up in the excitement that she actually dreamt about the arrival of The Fridge, even though she's only been in the studio for a couple of weeks.

But trust me, after three years of this, it's an everyday luxury beyond comprehension. No more food hanging out the window! So, note to self: Don't forget to appreciate the things in life that actually work. God knows there's enough of the opposite...

Neuköllns finest comes to visit

Last week my dear friend Silke Jentsch came to visit for a few days. Silke is the designer of fashion brand Mutabilis Berlin. We first met when we had stands next to each other at Tokyo fashion fair IFF, in 2006. In a period of about one month we also met at the fairs in Berlin and Copenhagen where I showed Robert&Blad. While Silke did things at a slightly smarter pace, I also managed to squeeze in showing in Paris and Stockholm during a period of totally six week. Absolutely suicidal of course! And I ended up with tinnitus and nosebleeds... But trust me, I learned something from that!

In december 2008 Silke was in Malmö working out of Robert&Blads studio for a month and a half. It was great fun and we really get along well, in spite of being very different. We also give each other lots of help and support, practically as well as morally. A generosity not to be taken for granted between designers, where the the competitive climate often makes it very cold.

During her time in Malmö she'd never had coffee at the excellent coffee bar in the corner of Ystadsgatan and Möllevångstorget, so now I took here there. It is a corner of mad traffic and constant action. Never a dull moment looking out the large windows!

One of the places Silke of course insisted of visiting in Malmö is super nice restaurant/bar/hang-out Tempo. Where we felt very happy and at home, as you can see...

Joachim, who works at Tempo, told me how he appreciated the article in the sunday supplement a few weeks back where I pointed out that Jever is my absolute favorite beer. We've sort of bonded on the subject of Jever before. Very nice. It's good to have a friend on the other side of the bar. Since he's also the singer in a cool rock 'n' roll band, of course I want to be friends with him!

I don't know what this is, or what it's doing in the street. Neither does it have anything to do with any of the places where we ate or drank. Anyway, we decided against it.

Oh, and by the way, I got some very flattering attention for being a gifted stylist, in the swedish photo blog Konsten att stjäla ett ögonblick. Thank you! :-)

Stockholm part 2

Up-dating, finally!
Stockholm really got the better of me and I ended up with a pretty bad cold and of course a lot of follow ups on the to do-list. Well, while I was still in the big city I had a couple of very interesting meetings with sales-agents. Of course nothing is simple, swift and in the bag... but, there's definitely hope.
And of course I managed to squeeze a little more of my best sport into the stay. Hanging out with friends and colleauges over drinks, that is.

Very conveniently the lovely Susanne Beskow of Van Deurs opened her shop in shop, at Snickarbacken 7 in Stockholm, where she shares a beautiful space with a café, gallery and interior decoration shop. So it was art show opening, shop opening and premiere of the whole space, all rolled into one. And lots of people, even if they're not in my pics.

The accordion-pleats are the signature of Van Deurs. Here also illustrated by the smart and elegant hang-tag. Congrats Susanne, well done!

See me dwarfed by my wonderful old friend Bodil and Susanne, two true amazons! Let me tell you, Bodil was very excited about finding a designer also taller than 180 cm (both with good margin, I believe). I'm sure there's gonna be some tall garments sold as a result of this...

The next day I went to see Ylva Liljefors at her office at post fire dew. Of course everything they were working on was top-secret and I had to be very careful not to accidentally get Ylvas mood-board in the picture. But I did get her round window and Ylva very proudly wearing her Slayer T-shirt.

Just before getting on the train I hooked up with funny, bubbly, crazy stylist Angie, who flattered me immensely by wearing a Robert&Blad dress for our meeting. After two hours of catching up, since it's been a while, she followed me across the street, to the train station.
And so it was over between Stockholm and me for this time. Well, I got to keep that little souvenir, the cold, of course. Thanks Stockholm!