What sort of woman do you get when you combine the fashionable arrogance of the French with the genetic perfection of the Swedish? Obviously, they’d be the babe of the party. She’d perhaps be a bit of a precious princess – but it’d be warranted, you know? She’d be liberal, open-minded, and would finish all her sentences with an endearingly quirky "ja?" or "oui?" Oh, to be Fredish!
But, most importantly, what would she wear? Berets and those funny high-necked blousey things? According to French design house
Lanvin and cult Swedish label
Acne, she’d probably be a little bit more sophisticated than this. Their AcneLanvin 2010 collaboration combines the first’s infamous ruching with the latter’s expert tailoring and denim. The result is XL denim bows placed is some precariously super-cute places. Just to complicate things a bit further, they’ve only used fabrics from Japan and Italy – it’s a borderless world, after all.
More at
acnestudios.com.