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In some of our previous posts, we've covered a number of note-worthy Danish visual artists. Today, we'll focus on a Danish fashion designer who understands a woman's body like no other – Malene Birger.

Malene Birger studied and earned her degree at the Danish Design school in Copenhagen. She first worked as a fashion designer at Jackpot by Carli Gry, and she next became the head designer for women's clothing at Marc O'Polo in Stockholm. She moved on and established her business, Day Birger et Mikkelsen, for which she won the Danish Design Award.

Many libraries all over the world are certainly noteworthy for their fun, eye-popping facades, beautiful interiors, elaborate corridors and walkways, and more. Today, we’ll take a look at one of the libraries where design resonates with its thrust and vision.

 

Imagine a world were technology in the age of industry is a reality. Where 1912 sees the dawn of the Internet, and electricity is shared with the Universe by the work of Nikola Tesla, electricity that is democratic and free of charge. Imagine a world where steam and gears hold both the promise of a better tomorrow, or even the unspeakable horrors of man-made destruction. It is a world of mechanical walkers that thunder on the plains and zeppelins that hum overhead, of explorations into the great beyond, and of adventure beyond your wildest imaginings.

 

Frills, petticoats, lace, and sweetness – there is more to Lolita fashion than meets the eye. This fashion with its dark, riotous roots in Japan's visual kei circles has since grown and blossomed further, creating gardens of frocked, beribboned, and frilly ladies all over the world. Lolita fashion has the power to turn heads, inspire conversation, curiosity, and awe, and the ladies who don it do so like precious armor.

All at once amiable, subversive, and tongue-in-cheek, the art of HuskMitNavn is unmistakeable as it is unforgettable. If yopu've been around Copenhagen, Brussels, and Århus, there's a good chance you may have seen his work. They've either graced streetside walls in all their pastel and eye-popping colors and cartoonish roundness and gloss, or you may even have sat beside one of his installations on a bench in a park, or perhaps on a sofa in a coffee shop.

 

Dragons. Either love them or hate them, dragons have long inspired flights of imagination, a thirst of understanding the unkown, and at times, sheer unadulterated terror. Dragons do tend to do that to unsuspecting people.

If jolly old England has its fair share of the winged beasts, and Scadinavia has Jormungandr, the World Serpent writing in the great depths of an ocean encircling Midgard, Denmark has its own special flavor of dragon.

 

The tomte, also called the nisse, is most popularly known as a kindly brownie-like creature of Danish folklore. Like his British cousin the brownie or hob, the tomte has been believed to aid kind-hearted farmers with their duties, making the fields yield a bumper crop, and the livestock double in their yield of milk, wool, calves and kids even in the middle of the harshest winter.

 

 

In our last post, we focused on Queen Margrethe II's appeal and relationship with her loved ones and her Danish subjects. In this post, we'll focus on her quirky, effervescent, and colorful personality.

 

Happy Fastelavn!

Fastelavn is the Carnevale of Denmark, Norway, and the Faroe Islands. It is celebrated on a Sunday or Monday before Ash Wednesday, and is a day dedicated to light-hearted fun, sweet treats, and merriment. It's a day where both children and adults are encouraged to come dressed in their silliest costumes, sing sings for candy, and just generally have a good time.

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