Swedish Stylist Hilda Sandström Has Never Met an Oversized Blazer She Didn’t Like
Swedish Stylist Hilda Sandström Has Never Met an Oversized Blazer She Didn’t Like
Hilda Sandström
Photographer: Ludvig RönnHilda Sandström
Photographer: Ludvig RönnHilda Sandström
Photographer: Ludvig RönnHilda Sandström
Photographer: Ludvig RönnHilda Sandström
Photographer: Ludvig RönnWhisper, never shout, could be the motto of Hilda Sandström, a willowy 28-year-old Stockholm-based stylist and Contributor editor, who has mastered the art of quiet elegance by adapting a simple fashion philosophy: “always be comfortable, and dress for yourself.”
Though she spends most of her time on set behind the camera, the model-like Sandström is certainly comfortable in front of a lens; she’s been blogging since moving to Stockholm from her hometown of Norrköping in 2009, and has maintained an Instagram account since 2012. In fact, she credits the social media platform with “giving me a push to dare to do my own thing,” and with helping move Swedish fashion forward. “I think Stockholm girls have started to get more inspired from all over the world and by different designers, so black-and-white minimalism is not the only thing you see anymore,” she notes.
Proportion drives this Swede’s style: “I’ve always been in love with oversized garments,” she says. “I can’t live without a big blazer and get super excited when I find a pair of really wide and long pants; they are usually too short for me.” She also keeps her eyes out for one-shoulder looks, cut-outs, and voluminous sleeves. Topping Sandström’s wish list is the big straw hat from Simon Porte Jacquemus’s “La Bomba” collection. It’s with accessories that Sandström adds eloquence to the pared-down silhouettes she favors, and it seems it has always been that way. One of Sandström’s first fashion memories is from her stroller days when she swapped her own homemade pony bead necklace for another more dazzling one within her reach. (Her mother later returned the contraband merchandise.) “That was my first and only time shoplifting,” the stylist jokes, “but what don’t you do for fashion?”
