Friday 30 November 2018

#LONDONROCKSTHISCHRISTMAS

London rocks this Christmas. From Elton Johns platforms boots and piano at John Lewis to Father Christmas Rock stars at Selfridges. The Christmas TV-ad this year by John Lewis features Elton John and his journey through having got a piano for Christmas when he was 5! Perhaps it is a reaction to the depressing times the world is going through at the moment. Let´s rock the blues away!

Country and Western rocker at Selfridges.

Lady rocker at Selfridges.

Rocking parcels at Dr Martens on Oxford Street.

Super rocking Father Christmas at Selfridges.

Glittering punk, a gay Father Christmas?

ZZ-top inspired Father X-mas, Selfridges. All photos by AKB Design/Ann-Katrin Berggren. More to come soon...

Wednesday 14 November 2018

#INFLUENCER WHO IS THAT? AND MINITRENDREPORT FROM #CHELSEAHARBOURDESIGNCENTRE

Am I an influencer? What is an influencer? Who is an influencer. Bloggers, instagrammers, twitters, and now Influencer. Who makes these words up? Most of those that call themselves or are called Influencers by others today are influenced by who pays them to influence their readers and followers. And it seems to work...so sad. I am a journalist and was for a long time paid by a magazine company to report, write and style new trends etc about fashion, interiors and food. Whatever I was influenced by was filtered through my integrity as a journalist to try to be fair and true towards my readers. I guess I was more of an influencer than the so called influencers of today. I was not paid by anyone to have any specific view. Today my profession is slowly dying in favour of writers, bloggers, instagrammers etc without integrity. So sad. Fortunately some of us are still around trying to share our thoughts freely about what we see and hear. At the moment I am sitting on a train into London to visit Chelsea Harbour Design Centre preview of SS19 and the new exhibition in cooperation with Ikea Musuem at the Design Museum. I will return about this soon. With some thougts and view of my own, without being influenced...