Edda Gimnes

Nationality: Norway
Fashion designer

EDDA GIMNES (1991, NORWAY) is a fashion designer and artist. Her creations blur the line between wearable fashion and artistic installations and have been highly acclaimed by the international fashion world. Already in 2015, she was named by the New York Times as a “Designer to Watch” and in 2018 she was the first Norwegian to be nominated to the prestigious LVMH prize and showed her creations at the Paris Fashion Week. Gimnes has combined fashion and innovation through partnerships with among others Microsoft, Epson, H&M, Max Mara Group and Disney. She is also one of the youngest designers ever to be shown at at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York when she was selected to participate in the exhibition “Camp: Notes on Fashion”. Her works has been acquired by and are now a part of the collections of Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe and The Norwegian National Museum. She had a first solo exhibition at NITJA Center for Contemporary Art earlier this year and have dressed artists such as Lady Gaga, Cardi B and Gigi Hadid.

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