Copenagen Fashion Week

Our favorite bar the last couple of years has been Café Halvejen which is an old bar with a lot of history. The bar which has been around since 1789 serves traditional "smørrebrød" until about 3pm and has very cheap pints. Even though it's located in Krystalgade next to the Vibskov store, there are hardly any people we know there. We come here when we want to escape from people we know and people we really don't know, whom we are obligated to say hello to. Here we have spent a lot of hours drinking beer and discussed our plans with our blog and other ideas. So when we need a break from all the fashion parties next week, this is the place you will find us.

Yesterday was one of those spontaneous nights which ends up being more fun than you ever had imagined. After a couple of beers we met up with our friends Nina and Kristine and went to Sam's Bar to sing karaoke. Nina was by the way wearing a fantastic dress bought at Weekday which gave her that perfect romantic singer/songwriter look. Even though Sam's Bar definitely isn't a place we come often, it was the most fun we've had in a long time and it instantly became our new favorite bar. As fun as it was, the annoying part of last night is that 99 Luftballoons still is buzzing inside my head.

If you're in the mood for a party this Friday you should definitely drop by the bar "Ruski" located in Pistolstræde, central Copenhagen. From 5pm there will be served free beers and shots, and we will be dj'ing, playing all our favorite music and try to get you guys to dance on the tables!

This week Copenhagen is the host of World Outgames, an international sport (and party) event for homosexuals and lesbians. The city is filled with people from all over the world celebrating human rights, freedom and love. Yesterday I stopped by Vor Frues Plads, a square in Copenhagen city to listen to some fun music sung by "Tina Turner", "Whitney Houston" and other divas. It was a fun night with all kinds of people just dancing and having fun in the streets.

Right now I`m sitting at the office, working and listning to Michael Jackson and suddenly I have this urgent lust to put on my vintage vest covered with MJ buttons and go out and dance. I have never worn it before but I think that to night is the night, and if not to night, you will see me wearing it on a dancefloor somewhere this weekend.

In late June we went to Stockholm to check out Fashionweek by Berns. Even though the list of brands showcasing this year were rather short, some of the brands had used their creativity to find other ways of showing their s/s 10 collection. One of these were Minimarket which did a guerilla activity where models dressed in their newest collection were walking in a crowd, stealing the attention at shows and around hotel Berns. We really think this was a great way of doing something different and what we saw made us really curious to see Minimarket's show here in Copenhagen Wednesday.

Our friend and Acne sales agent Christel, is always good-looking with her tattoos and clothing-style with a twist of rock 'n roll. Recently she got this beautiful clown tattooed on her arm by the artist, Eckle, who was visiting Conspiracy Inc and Uncle Allan in Nansensgade for a week. The clown which we know from old circus posters and the china all girls played with in the 90`s, suits her arm so great and it turned out just like she had imagined. Christel`s next tattoo will be done by Uncle Allan, probably the most popular tattoo artist in Copenhagen, but sadly she has to wait until December because of the enormous waiting list. If you don`t have the patience to wait a year to get tattooed at Uncle Allan's, Copenhagen has a lot of other talented artists where the waiting list might be shorter. Try for instance Amina, Kiley or Brianna at Brightside Tattoo in Christianshavn or Franz at Le Fix, Nørrebro.
If you want to see more of Christel she has recently become a blogger on cristalmilk. This is truly an awesome blog, very entertaining (and in english!). Enjoy....

Today we decided to fool around a little with our friend Jason Alami and his camera. The pictures which originally just were meant for fun on a boring Monday, ended up being so good (at least we thought) that we decided to change our blog picture with one of these. To see what picture we chose, check out our blog style.dk.

Today we dropped by our favorite Copenhagen store Paris Texas, for a
chat with Maria, the store owner. Maria is a friendly and stylish
woman, not to speek of an excellent buyer as she carries many of our
favorite brands such as Damir Doma, Rick Owens, Robert Geller,
Alexander Wang among others. Usually we are on the look for exciting
men`s wear but this time it was actually a pair of women shoes that
caught our eyes. These stilettos from Chrissie Morris is simply
perfection and they are definitely the most sexy shoes we have seen in
a long time.

Monday morning reality hit me again as I was back at the office. No more lazy beach days for sure! What felt like a million mails had to be answered, press releases and various media work had to be done. During Copenhagen Fashion Week, Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair is showcasing for the first time outside Sweden and we are in charge of the PR. Therefore, invitations had to be sent out, RSVP's taken care of and other things related to their show. We also do the PR for M by M's show at Cph Vision, Øksnehallen and are doing a thing called "Look of the Day" for L'oréal Paris. So the days at Patriksson Communication is hectic, but hey, busy is good and it's easier to go back to work when you have a lot of fun stuff to do.

Our good friend and storemanager of the nice store Nag in Silkegade, Christian Madsen, always has an inspiring style. We have posted pictures of him tons of times on our blog style.dk, everytime to the thrill of our readers. This time we got our talented photographer friend Jason Alami to shoot him in a studio showing off his wicked style. It should also be said that Christian among others, recently started the band Steel Snake which are playing live the 8th of august at Gallery Forum when the Danish brand DANSK are showing their s/s 10 collection. Be sure not to miss it!

Even though it might sound like a cliché, there is nothing that inspires me more than the ocean. Coming from a Norwegian harbor town, boat trips, fishing and beaches has always been a huge part of me. The feeling of the fresh breeze, the salty smell and the seagulls singing (or whatever they are doing) is doubtlessly the best medicine for a stressful mind and the best way for recharging my batteries. Last week my girlfriend and I went to this little pittoresque bay in Greece called St. Pauls. Here I really got to relax and empty my mind by the turquoise water, before heading back home for the fashion race in Copenhagen starting next week.

We are the boys behind the mens blog style.dk and this week we will let you all into our world. We will share our secret spots here in our wonderful Copenhagen, whether it is a place to chill, shop, eat or party. We will write about what and who inspires us and share some of our fashion related work. We hope you will enjoy it!