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Trying and Failing. On Ann-Sofie Back by Philip Warkander
Since the launch of her eponymous brand in 2001, followed by the more commercially motivated Back in 2005, Ann-Sofie Back has incorporated materials that aren’t what they first appear, and worked with details deliberately set out to confuse. This tactic of confusion and playful disorientation challenges two of the most fundamental concepts within fashion theory: “distinction” and “imitation.” By Philip Warkander
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Making a Difference. Ann-Sofie Back and the Fashion System
My first encounter with Ann-Sofie took place at Beckmans College of Design in the mid-nineties. She was a student in fashion design and I was a guest teacher, doing a course in fashion communication. Since the course was quite short, about a week, I didn’t get any real insight into what Ann-Sofie was about, but what struck me was her extremely personal and intellectual approach to fashion, something unusual in Swedish fashion education at the time. By Maria Ben Saad
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Out Now! Issue 6 is dedicated to Designer Ann-Sofie Back
For this issue, we also decided to take a closer look at designer Ann-Sofie Back without letting her know anything about our plans. We contacted her closest friends, colleagues and collaborators, and had paparazzi photographers follow her every move around Stockholm.
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Fashion Story: Back To The Middle
Filippa Berg Photographed by Lena Modigh and fashion by Lisa Sundström.
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Stockholm Fashion week Spring/Summer 2015: Back
Designer Ann-Sofie Back showed her Spring/Summer 2015 collection for her label BACK in Stockholm today, styled by our editor-in-chief Robert Rydberg. Last year we decided to take a closer look at Ann-Sofie Back without letting her know anything about our plans. We contacted her closest friends, colleagues and collaborators, and had paparazzi photographers follow her every move around Stockholm.The entire issue #6 was themed around Ann-Sofie Back and her collections. Photography by Hilda Sandstrom.
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BACK at Stockholm Fashion Week F/W 14
Designer Ann-Sofie Back showed her Fall/Winter 2014 collection for her label BACK in Stockholm today, styled by our editor-in-chief Robert Rydberg. Last year we decided to take a closer look at Ann-Sofie Back without letting her know anything about our plans. We contacted her closest friends, colleagues and collaborators, and had paparazzi photographers follow her every move around Stockholm. The entire issue #6 was an homage to Ann-Sofie Back and her collections.
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BACK FALL/WINTER 2012
Swedish designer Ann-Sofie Back showed her new collection for her label BACK at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm monday. Click for details.
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Out Now! The Headpiece Issue is Available Online
The new issue is themed “head piece” and is centered around what goes on inside and outside the head. For the cover story, Yu Tsai shot and interviewed Jared Leto in L.A. Sophie Caby met up with director Gaspar Noe in Paris, Maria Ben Saad talked to Caroline Evans about her new book on the first fashion shows, Ann-Sofie Back headed out to the shooting range with a couple of female cops from the Stockholm police force and Tom Greenwood tracked down whatever happened to the harpsichord. The rest of the issue is filled with fiction, neuro science, fetishism, food, quantum mechanics, art and pictures from close to seventy contributors.
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Out Now! The Head Piece Issue from Contributor is here
Our new issue is themed “head piece” and is centered around what goes on inside and outside the head. For the cover story, Yu Tsai shot and interviewed Jared Leto in L.A., Sophie Caby met up with director Gaspar Noé in Paris, Maria Ben Saad talked to Caroline Evans about her new book on the first fashion shows, Ann-Sofie Back headed out to the shooting range with a couple of female cops from the Stockholm police force and Tom Greenwood tracked down whatever happened to the harpsichord. The rest of the issue is filled with fiction, neuro science, fetishism, food, quantum mechanics, art and pictures from close to seventy contributors.
