The new site for Danish fashion, called Fashion Forum, is a portal and forum for the Danish fashion business, presenting daily news, posts, interviews, designer portraits and gossip. It’s also a place for debate. The forum is part of Modezonen, a cooperation with participating organizations and design schools, including Danish Fashion Institute, Wonderful Copenhagen, Dansk Design Center, Designskolen Kolding, TEKO, Danmarks Designskole. Just to mention some.

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Copenhagen restaurant Noma is Scandinavia's best restaurant 2009. In fierce competition with 30 luxury restaurants in the entire Nordic region, which all but one, have at least one Michelin Star, Noma won The Nordic Prize. Danish Noma's specialty is only serving food based entirely on Nordic ingedients.

Noma describes themselves as:
"At noma, we aim to offer a personal rendition of Nordic gourmet cuisine, where typical methods of cooking, fine Nordic produce and the legacy of our common food culture are all being subjected to an innovative gastronomic approach. Carrying this line of thinking further, we view it as a challenge to play a part in bringing forth a regeneration of Nordic culinary craft, in its capacity to encompass the North Atlantic region and to brighten the world with its distinctive tastiness and special regional character."

Some of their specialities:
Starters:
Salsify and milk skin Truffle from Gotland or Langoustine and seawater Parsley and rye

Main courses:
Musk ox and smoked marrow Apple and beetroot or Salad of danish lobster and hip rose Root and leaves from lettuce and red currant wine

Cheese and desserts:
Selection of Nordic cheeses or “Øllebrød” and frothed milk
Skyr and toasted rye kernels. Why not try, The snowman from Jukkasjärvi Cloudberries and wild thyme.

If anyone has been there, let us know!

Noma

The White Briefs, one of the nominees of "Rookie of the year"

Humanism, individualism and the a measure of innovation ideologies drives Peter Simosson and his partner Henriette Simonsson, The White Briefs, a base - and lingerie brand.

Photographer: Michael Dahl

White Briefs

R a h n s ä t e r, one of the nominees of "Rookie of the year"

Fredrik Samuelsson is one of the founders of
the leather goods company after graduating from Saint
Martins in London. Quality is the Honorary words
and all bags are handmade in one of the
top leather factories in southern Spain.

Photographer: Andreas von Gegerfelt

Rahnsäter

The famous small blue sticker of Chiquita has got an updated look for their Eat a Chiquita campaign, or in fact many different looks. The concept was created by designer DJ Neff, based on the idea of giving bananas individual personalities and to do something funny out of the need to keep bananas fresh, Don’t let them turn bad.

Apart from the actual stickers, the concept involves a campaign site with a do-it-yourself function if you’d like to play around with the design of the little blue sticker. There’s also a game called Banana Boogie Battle, where you can do some breakdance battle against bananas that have turned to the dark side (meaning turned bad, literally speaking).

Seika Lee, one of the nominees of "Rookie of the year"


Designer and physicians. Swedish and roots in Japan and Korea. With her explicit and her background, she is a true product of her time. It has resulted in a style where the edge combined with the elegance and femininity.

Photographer: Jörgen Brennicke

It seems to be trendy to read and make sophisticated comics these days. If you’d like to get a glimpse of the lively activity within the Nordic comics art scene, it has been visualized through an exhibition at the Nordic Watercolour Museum in Skärhamn, a couple of miles to the north of Gothenburg.

The unique original pictures for Contemporary Nordic Comics have been assembled with contributions from 19 artists from all Nordic countries, and were put together in a blend of elegant, raw, cute and brutal descriptions of life.

Images show artworks by Jóhann Ludwig Torfason from Iceland (left) and Katja Tukianen from Finland (right).