When I am Laid in Earth

We showed Spring/Summer 27 in the unfinished atrium at Kistefos, where the building gives way to the forest. Dido came out of the trees singing Purcell's When I Am Laid in Earth, a string quartet playing among them, two dancers behind her, and went back the way she came.

The collection began with rope. I grew up on Barmen, on my parents' trout farm, where you learned to tie a knot before much else. The rope became a print. This season the scarves became clothing: whole squares printed in Italy, handsewn in Norway, never cut to fit. When the drape failed, we unpicked it and began again. The hand-rolled edge became the seam, often in a contrasting colour, left visible.

There are two hands hidden in the rope. They come from the drawings of Hans Bellmer, which have followed me since my years at McQueen.

We make scarves. That will not change. The scarf is what everything else is built from.

Torunn

Collection: Spring/Summer 27
Place: Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker
Date: 31 August 2026

Creative Direction: Torunn Myklebust
Art Direction: Brede Rørstad

Mezzo-soprano: Therése Thylin
Oslo Strings: Lise Sørensen and Ragnhild Lien, violin · Isa Caroline Holmesland, viola · Kaja Fjelberg Pettersen, cello
Dancers: Anaïs Touret, Veronika Selivanova
Music: Henry Purcell, When I Am Laid in Earth, from Dido and Aeneas

Printed in Italy · Sewn in Norway
Photography: Stephanie Sikkes