Slide Show: Nordic Fashion Biennale at the Nordic Heritage Museum
Slideshow: A northern perspective on style. Here, work by Biennale curator and Iceland native Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, who you may just call Shoplifter.
Looking Back to Find Our Future, an exhibit of fashion and jewelry from Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway, is part of the Biennale celebration. In it, the work of cutting edge designers like Henrik Vibskov (familiar to fans of Blackbird in Ballard) will be presented within the context of traditional garb and folk art.
Barbara i Gongini, a Faroese line based in Denmark, will also be part of the Looking Back exhibit.
A menswear look from the line Moods of Norway at the 2010 Arctic Summer Nordic Fashion Show at the Nordic Heritage Museum
A look by Marimekko from last year’s runway show in Ballard.
From last year’s show: Kristiina Hiukka, honorary vice consul of Finland, Seattle Sounders soccer player Freddie Ljungberg (a bona fide Swede), Ole Henriksen, the Danish skin care guru. Henriksen is also set to judge the North by Northwest competition.
