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! :-)