Interview - Talking Leather

Interview with Patrik and ingrid in the May Issue of Norwegian Elle. Talking about the made in Italy leather jackets and shoes. - 2014

It is official!

DN -Dagens Næringsliv writing about the collaboration between Mardou&Dean jeans and clothing agent Kaare Lund.

17 MAY

The Norwegian Constitution Day, or the National Day of Norway, is celebrated all over the country. Below some girls on the street from yeaterday dressed up in the National Costume: Bunad. I would say that 50% of the city is dressed up in Bunad on this day, even the men.

Keywords: Music, kids, Bunad and happy people.

Oslo, Norway, 17th of May 2009

Indie

Not too many new indie* bands are entering the music scene these days, but quite a few of them are absolutely worth checking out. I just came over the ones below by coincidence. You should definitely visit their Myspace sites and listen to their songs.

I was a Cub Scout

Kate Nash

Born Ruffians








*Indie is a shortening for independent music. It primarily refers to rock musicians that are or were unsigned, or have signed to independent record labels, rather than major record labels. Indie artists have complete control of their music and careers, releasing albums on independent record labels (sometimes their own) and relying on touring, word-of-mouth etc.

Vintage Lovin'

If you are into Vintage Denim you should defenitely read the Repeat to fade blog, and do yourself a favour and listen to the soundtrack on the site while reading.

Some history

Denim has become a universal phenomenon and most people are familiar with the words jean and denim. But does anyone actually know where the two words come from?

The word denim comes from the name of a sturdy fabric called serge, originally made in Nîmes, a city in South of France. Originally this fabric was called serge de Nîmes, the name was soon shortened to denim. The city Nîmes derives its name from that of a spring, Nemausus, in a village in the Roman Empire. Which again is named after the god Nemausios from Celtic mythology.

Denim was traditionally colored blue with indigo dye to make blue "jeans", though "jean" then denoted a different, lighter cotton textile; the contemporary use of jean comes from the French word for Genoa, Italy (Gênes), where the first denim trousers were made. Genoa (Genua) was a city of the ancient Ligurians. Its name is probably Ligurian, meaning "knee", i.e. "angle", from its geographical position. Or it could derive from the Celtic root genu-, genawa, meaning "mouth", or from the Latin word of Celtic origin "ianua", meaning "door".

ref. Wikipedia