Eleanor Kittle

Italian brewery label Peroni Nastro Azzurro transformed Stockholm's Djurgården into the Amalfi Coast with ineffable elegance. Discover the Italian labels' summer extravaganza below To hear of a party being held at an embassy, one cannot help but think of clichéd visions of sterile offices, drab rows of desks, and tepid beverages served in flimsy plastic cups. Yet, Fridays' gathering at the Italian Embassy was a masterclass in Mediterranean elegance that rendered such an idea entirely obsolete.

As we wave goodbye to another Stockholm Fashion Week, we round up our five key takeaways from this year's display of Swedish design talent Stockholm Fashion Week has wrapped and, once again, it helped spotlight some of the best design talent emerging from Sweden.

Beata Rybacken's designs are not quite from our world. Oversized, deliciously abstract and a little quirky, they are born from a desire to make the wearer feel a certain way: tiny In an unassuming Södermalm building there is a flat where the traditional notions of scale don’t exist. Inside, amongst the bulbous Gustaf Westman furniture and knick-knacks, lives designer Beata Rydbacken.