Kopenhagen Fur – The Top Lot award 2018-2020

My assignment was to design and create the Top Lot Award for 2018. It was a great success and we have continued the collaboration until 2020, were the company were closed down for because of the corona pandemic.

My inspiration for the Top Lot Award was an iris which is a symbol of hope and wisdom in many countries.

I have created a flower with mink in focus. Besides the mink I have added silk and feathers to the flower. I have used my pressing moulds to create structure in the mink and the rest of the petals are shaped with hand tools. The feathers are added to create a color contrast in the design.

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Exhibition, January-February 2020:

Udstillingsstedet for tekstil, Møntergade 6, 1116 Copenhagen, Denmark

This exhibition showed different work from artists working with textile in different ways. My main focus was flowers in decay. For me flowers in decay are sometimes even more beautiful than when they are completely fresh or just popped out.

So I spent a lot of time in this project painting every petal one by one to get the right feeling of fading beauty.

Kopenhagen Fur / Top lot Award 2018/2019

Kopenhagen Fur 2018

Kopenhagen Fur is one of the biggest fur Companies in Scandinavia. In 2018 Kopenhagen Fur launched a special price in the auction house.

A price called Top Lot Award. You will receive a Top Lot Award if you bid the highest price on the finest skins during an auction.

My assignment was to design and create the Top Lot Award for 2018. It was a great success and we have continued the collaboration until now.

My inspiration was an iris which is a symbol of hope and wisdom in many countries.

I have created a flower with mink in focus. Besides the mink I have added silk and feathers to the flower. I have used my pressing moulds to create structure in the mink and the rest of the petals are shaped with hand tools. The feathers are added to create a color contrast in the design.

The small news-article from Kopenhagen Fur can be read here : Kopenhagen Fur

The Kopenhagen Fur Top Lot Award 2018
Kopenhagen Fur 2018
Details of the Iris
Kopenhagen Fur 2018
Working on the design of the 2018 award
Kopenhagen Fur 2018

Kopenhagen Fur 2018
Design for the 2019 award
Kopenhagen Fur 2018
Design for the 2019 award

Television & lifestyle magazines

My work is bringing me around. My headpieces are used by musicians and different tv-celebrities.

One of them is the musician Ohland (well known Danish Electropop artist).
She was seen as one of the coaches on “Voice Junior” 2017 on Danish TV2.

Voice Junior Coach

Voice Junior Coach

 

 

Elle Magazine – Summer Issue 2017

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Elle Magazine

 

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X Factor 2017

Some of my latest work has included silk flowers for the host of the danish X Factor show, Sofie Linde.
The flowers are all hand painted, and the mix of different colours and asymmetrically placement of the flowers, gave her a fresh and cute look.

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