It was Stockholm’s unlikely style icon Lisbeth Salander, or rather the first actress to bring her to life in the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo film series, Noomi Rapace (pictured), who kicked off the city’s fashion week Monday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Rapace attended shows throughout the week, and on Tuesday night, [...]

Ann-Sofie Back was and wasn’t completely herself these past few days, showing two very different collections during Stockholm fashion week. On Monday, she presented her diffusion line, Back, in a shop basement: easygoing looks that included windbreaker-fabric pants and a beautiful lipstick-smudge floral print. (For a look at Back Spring 11, click below.) [...]

Tonight at around 11 p.m.—so they say, but my money’s on midnight or later—a handful of Denmark’s best designers present a runway show of a few looks from their Fall collections for the revelers celebrating VMan’s Scandinavian issue at Good Units. VMan’s Stephen Gan sees big things in Scandinavia’s fashion future, I’m told, and has [...]

Ann-Sofie Back has jumped the gun. Though she’s been signed on as creative director at Cheap Monday since 2009, thanks to the plan-ahead cycles of fashion, her first full collections aren’t due until Spring ‘11. That doesn’t mean you have to wait to get Back. The designer has created capsule additions to the Cheap Monday [...]

There was plenty of grooving at Stockholm Fashion Week this year, where the Swedes showed their collections to an indie rock beat. A live piano concert—shades of Cat Power—attended Filippa K’s noirish collection of pencil skirts, structured dresses, and tilted fedoras in the Museum of Photography, and the crowded scene at Cheap Monday in the [...]

The Cheap Monday look—the skinniest of skinny jeans—stays its course season after season, but for Fall, the blues are going gray. The Swedish label showed an almost entirely gray collection during Stockholm fashion week yesterday (its second with new creative director Ann-Sofie Back) that drew on some unlikely inspirations. “We were thinking a bit about [...]

With its affordable price points and cool cuts, Stockholm-based Cheap Monday quickly became one of the most well-known and well-liked denim companies out there. But as its Spring 2010 show in the Swedish capital proved on Monday night, the brand is now about much more than affordable jeans. Its first step in that direction was [...]

Until last week, Cheap Monday denim designer Carl Malmgren had never set foot in New York City. “Yeah, it’s my first time here,” he admitted as Cheap Monday colleagues went about hanging pairs of jeans from the ceiling of the new Inven.tory store on Lafayette Street. “Just one of those things, I guess.” Inven.tory marks [...]

Attention, all bathing beauties in Miami for Art Basel: You might want to delay the purchase of a new bikini until May. That’s when Cheap Monday will be debuting its first-ever swimsuits at Urban Outfitters, and true to the company’s name, they’re priced for thrift. A zippered bandeau-top bikini in black, coral, or electric blue [...]

The Swedish denim label Cheap Monday has put a new spin on that old question by sewing “Increase the Peace” patches onto its beloved skinny jeans. Available in two colors, very stretch black and very stretch one wash (blue), they’ll be sold exclusively at Barneys New York stores beginning on Election Day, November 4. No, [...]