Gudrun Sjödén (born 5 June 1941) is a Swedish fashion designer.
Sjödén grew up in the village of Julita in Södermanland, and studied textile and fashion at Konstfack from 1958 to 1963. She married photographer Björn Sjödén (1940-2016) in 1961.[1] Along with him she in 1976 opened the first Gudrun Sjödén clothing shop in Stockholm at Regeringsgatan.[2] The company has about one hundred employees and earns a quarter of a billion (SEK) a year.[3]
In 2007, she received the Litteris et Artibus medal from King Carl Gustaf of Sweden.[4][5]
References edit
- ^ "Obituary Björn Sjödén" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-02-05. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
- ^ Wärn, Karina Ericsson (2012), Modebibeln. Den svenska. Bonnier Fakta, ISBN 978-91-7424-149-5
- ^ "Gudrun Sjödén Design Aktiebolag". Archived from the original on 30 April 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ "Gudrun Sjödén fick medalj". Habit. Archived from the original on 19 September 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
- ^ "Gudrun Sjödén - 40 år i färg och mönster". Bizstories (in Swedish). 2016-03-29. Archived from the original on 2022-05-18. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
External links edit
Media related to Gudrun Sjödén at Wikimedia Commons
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