Sometimes words can’t describe what Sandra Backlund can do with a knit. We are constantly amazed by her innovative and modern approach to a medium that is otherwise resigned to the ‘more mature’ generation. Each piece in the collection is improvised; rather than being based on patterns Sandra designs as she knits. What we most enjoy is that despite her success since the label’s inception in 2004 (note: a collaboration with Louis Vuitton for Fall 2007/08), there is still that bespoke stamp to each piece.

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Photo : Peter Farago

A graduate of the Beckmans School of Design, Sandra Backlund lives in Stockholm where she has founded her own fashion brand. Starting from the obsessive image of a symmetrical ink blot, representative of the famous Rorschach Test, she improvises her new collection one outfit at a time.
She experiments with origamis and pleats of knits and mohair that push the volumetric limits of the material and transform the body through disturbing and original shapes.

www.sandrabacklund.com