My 2 fave brands:

Irregular Choice

Chie Mihara

2 of my favourite designers.

Learn more here: Tsumori Chisato and Dries van Noten

3 years ago, I participated in the Norwegian version of Project Runway. I was familiar with the American serie, and even though I wasn’t very keen on being on TV, I was intrigued by the concept. Audition day was fun, over 200 people showed up. I wore a green dress, blue hair, a smile on my face and a rack full clothes.

Program 1: make a new outfit of what you are wearling now!

Program 2: make an outfit inspired from what you see in the streets (I chose a grafitti wall).

Program 3: make a snowboard outfit. The challenge was also to spend a day on snowboard (it was super hard) and to work in a team of 2,  with Iselin Engan.

Program 4: fashion for mum! I made this for Daniel Sørensen’s mum, May. I think she looks so cool in this outfit.

Program 5: underwear.

Program 6: design a dogs outfit plus a matching dress for the model! I won this challenge :-)

Program 7: make a new uniform for the Norwegian Post Service.

Episode 8: make over! I made an outfit for Iselin Engan…

…and she made one for me.

Program 9: make a wedding dress in 2 days!

Program 10: make a dress for the Norwegian movie star Ingrid Bolsø Berdal. I won the challenge and went straight to the finale.

Together with Daniel Sørensen and Iselin Engan, the 3 of us had 1 month and $$$ to make each our collection to showcase at the ELLE 10 years anniversary gala. Here I am, having fun with our mentor, sweet sweet William.

I was very inspired by the movie The Wizard of Oz, and used elements from the movie mixed with influences from Japan (as allways!)

I ended up second, after Daniel Sørensen who won.

It was such a great experience.

Heidi Bjørnsen, a colleague and friend of mine, is hooked on rabbits! We went to Esmod together, and I remember her making the coolest shoes and accessories shaped as rabbits, and she told me that this has been her thing since she was little. I am very fortunate to own 2 pairs of shoes and 1 pair of boots from Heidi, made in the finest silk and all hand made.

Linda C. Myrseth/PUDDER og photographer Baard Lunde wanted to focus on Norwegian design that resulted in a fantastic series of pictures for Norwegian Fashion Institute. Like this, NFI presents the fashion mood for a/w 2010, made into a separate attachment to SVA Magazine.

Photo: Baard Lunde

Styling: Linda C. Myrseth/PUDDER
Styling ass.: Marte Økelsrud
Hair: Agnes Gulbrandsen/PUDDER
Make up: Cathrine Aas
Model: Vaar/TopModels

Ella decided to change her hair colour. I used this shade myself, during the early 90’s, it’s called La Riche Directions in Fire Red. The dye we used for Ella today is actually one of the old jars from -94 (yes, I have a large stock of different colours from many years back) and it still worked pretty well!!!

BEFORE: Ella went from peach…

AFTER: to fire red!

The designs from Indian Manish Arora really blows me away! It’s just fabulous,  OTT and really wild, but totally controlled, perfectly balanced and beautifully executed.

The newest collection, for winter 2010-11 is just amazing. Check it out through the link below the pictures.

Here are a random selection of pictures from previous collections:

Follow this link to see the winter 2010-11 collection.

Kjell Nordstrøm. A very unique man with oh so many talents. Designer, stylist, make up artist, top hair stylist, teacher and mentor. And much more that we will probably be pleasantly surprised by in the future. Originally Swedish but “almost Norwegian” after two decades in Oslo. Formerly known as Baron von Bulldog; an “enfant terrible” with his straight-forward and honest appearance. He’s not afraid of confrontations or making statements.  

We used to be aquainted for years but really got to know eachother during my first year at Esmod. I got the opportunity of assisting him, and happy to enter his world of mindblowing creativity, experience, history and his various ways of working. And being a bit crazy myself, we were quite an interesting match. Every day was different and always exiting. Kjell has told many interesting  stories from his past. He lived several years in Paris as a successful designer with his own brand, alongside working for Jean Paul Gaultier, Comme des Garcons and more. 

After my graduation at Esmod, Kjell brought in a third designer, Stian Tjernsmo, for a collection called “East End Boys & West End Girls – and Terror Kids!”. Kjell designed the mens wear, Stian the kids and I designed the womens wear. Noone can gather a crowd like Kjell. When he invites to a fashion show, it creates traffic jam that ends up the wildest rock concert! Everyone is there, and it’s faboulus!

I admire him for his dauntless and strong vision in everything he does, together with high skills, high moral, quality and fantastic fantasy! And most of all for being wonderful, kind, warm – and eccentric! I’m grateful to be his friend.

Kjell dressed up and modelling for my exam collection at Esmod, looking like a cool Arabian prince with a twist. He made the fab hair and make up looks on the models, with help from the staff at Art Complexion. The jury loved it, and I ended up with the Jury Price for this collection. I believe the styling made a big difference, it was just beautiful.

Cool boys from the East End! From left: Vegard STORM Pedersen, Tooji and Hebbe – all dressed and styled in -and by- Baron von Bulldog.

Polina & Julia

3 happy designers

To learn more about Kjell Nordstrøm, please follow links:

Kjell Nordstrøm wikipedia

Kjell Nordstrøm wikipedia II

I’d like to thank my good friend and colleague, Irene Marienborg, for her amazing spirit, support, enthusiasm and great taste! As both a senior graphic designer and a fashion designer (educated from Parsons New York and Esmod Oslo), she’s really got an eye for beautiful and special combinations that works perfectly together with the Tina H profile. She’s made some of our catalogues, and with drawings made by another dear friend, Kari Søreide, she created our blog as well (which I absolutely love).  She has also spent months developing embroideries for our next winter collection. Thank you, Irene, you are great!

Embroidery on skirt. Photo: Copenhagen Fashion Week

Close-up of embroidery, made by Irene (from winter 2010/11-collection)

Embroidery on dress. Photo: Copenhagen Fashion Week

Summer 2010 + winter 2010/11

Today, I read this funny article in one of Oslo’s local papers, called Østkantavisa. For a while, Fam and I’ve been making jokes about this ”mother and daughter”-thing, due to our similar hair colours. So at the opening night at OFW, we posed in front of the press crowd, like, ”let’s have our family portrait taken”. Since Fam and I know most of these photographers, they found it pretty amusing and we all had a laugh. However, the journalist from Østkantavisa didn’t quite seem to get it. I guess our resemblance (read: our colourful appearance) was too convincing – or confusing …

“Fam Irvoll brought her mother and sister to the fashion show”. 

Thank you, Østkantavisa. We laughed our heads off, and you really made our day