Project Protégé: Sandra Backlund

A 2004 graduate of Stockholm’s Beckmans School of Design, Sandra Backlund is a tricot artist who assembles her knits by hand in three-dimensional collages, sculpture mode. Her style of working and the magic of her creations - authentic works of art - have both earned her major awards and attracted the attention of the international press.

First and foremost Franca Sozzani, editor in chief of the Italian Vogue, who chose her for “The Protégé Project”: ideal showcase for signaling, through Sandra’s talent, the newest direction in knitwear.

The human form as the starting point to reinvent, underline, camouflage. Through various handcrafted techniques, Sandra Backlund takes knits to unknown heights, enveloping the body in supersoft Merino wools. For Fall/Winter 2009, she envisions a surreal, magical, magnificent total look in tricot. Finally freeing knits of a classic mannish connotation, the Swedish designer revisits the genre with a spiritual, intimist collection making use of the most precious Australian Merino wool yarns. Key colours in her palette: a warm powder pink and an intense dark red.

Entire collection available at Flickr.

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