My lucky day :-)

Yesterday was the best day this year so far!

I've been jobhunting since January, and I was about to reach my breaking point with boredom and the uncertaincy of my future.
Well, Monday I got a call from a place I had sent an application. I had to call back Tuesday as I was about to enter the cinema. Tuesday we had a small talk by phone, and I was asked to come for an interview Wednesday. The interview went really well, and I got a call the same day for a second interview Thursday. This was more a short recap of the interview the day before, and it was soon revealed, that I got the position!! Hooorayyy!
I start my new life as a hardworking Marketing Coordinator Monday, wish me luck! :-)

My luck had not run out with the job offer. Thursday evening the Fisk Redesign Competition took place and my team won!!
It was all in the name of recycling and charity, and in my team we had chosen to use men's wear for all three outfits.
We had a dress made out of a suit, a coat made of two jackets and a tie dress go down the runway. My sister, Vala, is working the suit-dress.
And what a success! The celebrity / fashion-wise judges had some really nice comments and the crowd cheered us on (led by my mom, my sister Laura, my BF and my friends Nana and Laura - thank you all!!)

Our minicollection is listed below. Behold! :-)

So we meet again

Hi guys! Wow has it really been that long? Bad blogger, baaad! (Insert slap over my hands here).
Well, I've actually been really busy in my spare time lately (and loving it!) doing some sewing for a charity fashion show next week.
It is the shop/café, called Fisk, where I'm a volunteer, that is behind the event and we are about 7 seven teams competing for the honour of winning. It is all about redesigning second hand clothes in collaboration with a mentoring designer.

My Belgian teammate, Lotte, and I have been really lucky. We got a Danish-Faroeic designer called Barbara I Gongini as our mentor and she is really sweet and full of great ideas for twisting our designs in a new direction. Her style is very sculptural and avantgarde, but she luckily knows how to transfer that into our more wearable approach to clothes. It has been interesting, and I cannot wait to see what the others teams have made. And, man, I hope we win! (just for the fun of winning as there is no real prize on stake).

I will post some pictures from the show next week, but for now it is a deep dark secret what we are working on :-)

So for those of you who will be in Copenhagen Thursday the 19th, the show is at Karrierebar from 18.00-24.00. (Tickets can be bought in Fisk).

See you sooner than you'd think!

Dreams of the 40s

I've written about the Fisk shop, where I go to hang out with some great girls and sew and redesign second hand clothes. Well, some time ago the shop got a whole load of vintage stuff from an decreased, old woman - who in my imagination was the most excentric and vivacious upperclass lady, as her belongings tell a story of that sort.

We got a lot of beautiful undergarments (suspenders and negliges) and - the reason why I'm writing this post - some beautiful pattern magazines from the 30s and 40s. The illustrations are pieces of art in my opinion and I would love to hang them on my wall, but I could never bring my self to cut them out, so instead I took some pictures:

FISK Re-design Fashionshow

This spring I've been teaming up with a bunch of creative and very sweet girls (you know who you are) once a week to re-design second hand clothes for a charity shop in Copenhagen called FISK (Fish in Danish). And all of our work resulted in a fashion show in May. It has been so much fun to be free to do whatever you wanted with the clothes, and here are my results (Thanks again to the models):

The lovely young lady posing here is my littlesister :-) Good job Vala!

I haven't made all of thesse clothes, but some of them are my "design" or re-design, that is...
The blue dotted top used to be a big square top and the jumpsuit was once a velvet dress. The nude sundress has a former life as a very matron-like dress, and I just fell in love with the small print of flowerpots on it.
(I cannot take credit for the capri pants, the vintage see-through jacket or the well crafted vest).

The blue dress is made out of a mens shirt and tie and the glitter vest was originally a very funky jacket, but someone had already removed the sleeves when I found it (the orange skirt is not my work).

I hope I can find time to meet up with the girls during the summer to get more fun clothes done. Once we're finished with the items, they go on sale in the shop to raise funds for various charity projects.