Rizzo SS10
Rizzo SS10
In the spring campaigns for our dearl old clients and partners Rizzo, the shoe and accessories brand store chain, we build on the new, simple communicative manner that we introduced last season, highlighting the product. Two more campaigns will follow later in the spring. This season's models are Josefin E and Mattias B, both from Stockholmsgruppen. The fashion images are photographed by John Scarisbrick and styled by Kattis Lindoff. The still-lives are photographed by Jens Mortensen.
Accent 1 SS10
Accent SS10
In
the spring campaigns for accessories chain Accent, we build on the new
communicative manner that we introduced last season, inspired by the style
pages of commercial fashion magazines. Three more campaigns will follow later
in the spring. The campaigns are photographed by John Scarisbrick and styled by
Kattis Lindoff. The models are Karin A and Frida B, both from
Stockholmsgruppen.
Sweden 2010
Out now: Sweden and Stockholm 2010
BrittonBritton
has once again produced the annual official Swedish international tourist
catalogue Sweden on commission by VisitSweden, the official Swedish tourist
authority. The catalogue is published in nine language versions, with a total
circulation of about 750,000 copies. As could be expected with the grand Royal
wedding comin up, this year's catalogue has a Royal and romantic theme,
complete with a personal greeting from the bride to be, our dear Crown Princess
Victoria of Sweden, to all foreign visitors. View the complete digital version
of this catalogue in all language editions on VisitSweden:s award-winning
website.
Also,
we have once again produced the official international Stockholm guide
Stockholm Guide 2010, on commission by Stockholm Vistitors Board, in eight
language versions, with a total circulation of approximately one million
copies. As usual, the Stockholm Guide is enclosed as an appendix in the Sweden
catalogue.
Rizzo advertising fall 09
New communicative manners for Accent and Rizzo
For this present autumn season, we have developed new communicative manners for our clients Accent and Rizzo, both part of the Venue Retail Group, complete with new typographies, new photographic manners and new tonalities.
For Accent, we have introduced an "editorial" manner, remniscent of the front of the book pages in fashion magazines, designed to provide a firm aid for the accessories chain's customers in trends and styling.
The new maner for Rizzo emphasizes the products, also giving the men's collection, which has been fast growing, a bigger role in the brand's communication. Another purpose with the change is to clearify that Rizzo is also a retail chain selling other selected brands of shoes and accessories, in addition to its own.
Hopefully these new communication manners will contribute to further growth and expansion for both brands.
The model images for the campaigns for both brands are photographed by John Scarisbrick and styled by Kattis Lindoff. The product images are photographed by Jens Mortensen.
Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942)
Time to tell the true story of when we were about to launch Scandinavian VOGUE...
In Friday’s season première of the eminent fashion radio show Stil in Swedish Radio’s P1 station, Claes Britton is interviewed by show hostess Susanne Ljung about the time when we came close to launching Scandinavian VOGUE some seven years plus ago, on commission by the Condé Nast publishing house. It was a big venture in two turns spanning over a period of three years, conducted in collaboration with the Condé Nast International headquarters in London, before being turned down a second time by the exeutives in New York, whereupon we also took the decision to cease publication of our own magazine, Stockholm New. Hitherto, for some reason, we’ve been secretive with this big and exciting project, known only by a small clique of close collaborators, but when Susanne Ljung contacted us to make an interview about Condé Nast, which is the theme for the show, we saw no reason not to tell it as it was. The show is aired on Swedish Radion P1 at 10.03 Friday 14 augusti and again Saturday 15 August 08.05. Of course you can also listen to the show on the web.
Stocholm New No.12 — The Royal issue (2002), with Mikael Jansson’s famous cover image of Sweden’s Crown Princess Victoria
More than seven years after our most recently published issue: Stockholm New magazine nominated to yet another prestigious Nordic design prize!
"Stockholm New is a journal that people would still say is outstanding even in 20-25 years time"
-Esquire Japan, Top 100 things, July 2009
We've claimed it before, but it's worth repeating: in the fleeting world of fashion and fashion magazines, it's touching how our own magazine Stockholm New continues to "live", more than seven years after our most recent issue was published back in May 2002 (Stockholm New No.12 — the Royal issue, with the famed Mikael Jansson image of our Swedish Crown Princess Victoria on the cover.)
Another proof of this "lasting" quality is that Stockholm New, richly awarded in its time, has now, seven years later, been selected for an exclusive Nordic design exhibition and nominated for yet another prestigious new Nordic design prize.
It's the new Danish design and furniture fair CODE, which is staged for the very first time in the Bella center in Copenhagen in September — with the ambition of becoming the Nordic region's leading design event — that introduces a brand new Nordic design exhibition and a design prize with the name Nordic Selected. A number of objects from the categories graphic, industrial, interactive and architectural design have been selected as representing the best Nordic design from the ten years. The nominated objects will be presented in a printed catalogue, on the web and in an exhibition at the CODE fair. The exhibition's head of curators, Professor Florian Hufnagl, will then select shortlists of first ten, then three objects that will be highlighted in the exhibition during the fair. Finally, one single object will be crowned with the prize Nordic Selected Award for the best Nordic design of all categories from the past decade.
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland are each represented in the exhibition/competition by two curators. The Swedish curators, who have nominated Stockholm New in this honorable context, are Monica Förster and Björn Dahlström. We're most greatful of course!
The notorious kiss...
Our famous "kiss" travels on around the Globe...
Have you by chance seen the two features from Sweden that were aired recently on the popular American comedy show "The Daily Show", and which are now circling the Globe in various "social media"? If not, check them out, because they're quite funny and more than a bit viscious, with famous comedian Wyatt Cenac visiting Stockholm in wintertime, surrounded by trademark Swedish blondes, conducting amusing interviews with people like ex trade minsiter Leif Pagrotsky and ABBA star Björn Ulweaus (labeled "two bearded gnomes"...). The programmes are called "The Stockholm Syndrome", alluding to Sweden being used in the propaganda by Barack Obama's political enemies. The shows makes some prime Sweden promotion in any case, that's for damned sure, so our dear clients at The Swedish Institute should be complemented for acting swift in helping facilitate the production of the shows. At the end of the second show, there are a few clips from our dear official Swedish image film, including, of course, the notorious "kiss" which became so controversial. We're still amazed that an innocent kiss between two adult women can arouse powerful emotions still in this day, but we're greatful for the attention regardless.
Go in and see our Sweden film on Sweden's official website Sweden.se, why not, and read all those touching comments from people from all around our entire Globe.
PS. Speaking of Sweden's international image, our official Swedish tourist catalogue Sweden 09 (see further down in this column) is now available in complete digital versions on Sweden's internationally much awarded official tourist website www.visitsweden.com. DS.
Vanity of Man in Stockholm!
A selection of Nicho Södling's unique series of fashion portraits from Omo in Southwestern Ethiopia are shown at Fotografiska Antikvariatet here in Stockholm over the next month.
Starting this weekend, over the next month, images from Nicho Södling's unique photographic project Vanity of Man are shown for the first time here in Stockholm (read much more about this fantastic project further down in this column, and also on our blog). It's a small selection of prints that will be on display at Fotografiska Antikvariatet on Torkel Knutssonsgatan 31 in Södermalm here in Stockholm. The opening is on Saturday 9 May, and the exhibition will continue until 9 June (preliminary date). The exhibition, which is starting to attract international publicity, will then be shown in its current full scale in Landskrona Museum in Southern sweden, opening in February 2010.
Anna Holtblad autumn/winter 09
Anna Holtblad autumn/winter 09
We are pleased with our new lookbook for our dearl old friend and longtime client Anna Holblad, and her coming autumn/winter collection. The lookbook is photographed by Oscar Falk and styled by Maria Virgin, another two old friends and longtime collaborators. The model is from Sandrah Hellberg from Mikas. See all images in our portfolio. The lookbook itself can be aquired from modinåkerlind PR agency.
Advertising spring 1, 09
...and Don Donna
From spring 09, BrittonBritton has taken over the marketing also for DonDonna, one of Scandinavia's highest profiled shoe and accessories brands, which opened its first shop here in Stockholm in 1968. Like our clients Rizzo and Accent, DonDonna is part of the Venue Retail Group. Shoes from DonDonna are sold in Rizzo shops, while the accessories collection is available in Accent shops. Our first campaign for DonDonna is photographed by Martin Lidell and styled by Ingela Klemetz Farago. A new campaign will follow later in the spring.