Sandra Backlund is a celebrated Swedish designer, well known for her organic and convoluted knitwear, often with a slight undercurrent of distorted, other-wordly beauty. For this editorial for Falter Magazine we took or inspiration from a Nordic mythological creature the "Huldra", or "Skogra" who is essentially a cunning seductress, very much like the mediterraenean Siren. In the stories she would lure woodworkers into the forest with her radiant beauty, never to return...
more »Sandra Backlund is a celebrated Swedish designer, well known for her organic and convoluted knitwear, often with a slight undercurrent of distorted, other-wordly beauty. For this editorial for Falter Magazine we took or inspiration from a Nordic mythological creature the "Huldra", or "Skogra" who is essentially a cunning seductress, very much like the mediterraenean Siren. In the stories she would lure woodworkers into the forest with her radiant beauty, never to return again...
These extraordinarily beautiful creatures are shape-shifters and if You would happen to catch a look at them from behind they would resemble nothing more than a hollow, rotting tree stump. Another way of making them out was that the females sometimes had a fox tail sticking out from under their skirt.
The very dark Nordic forest is populated with all kinds of figures, both menacing and friendly and one of my favorite characters is the Princess Bianca Maria / Princess Tuvstarr, both immortalized by the Swedish illustrator John Bauer who spent his life bringing to life these beings...
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