IRIS GOLD Talented, stunning and positive Musician Iris Gold about her creative life and how she learned to stare adversity in the eye with a “bring it on� mentality ISSUE 7
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Welcome to issue 07 of my8days It is summer time so for this issue I wanted to create something LIGHT and FRESH. So first of all I made a brand new website for you, it`s packed with lots of inspiration that I love. Here I share news about trends, fashion, health and you can enjoy our small behind the scene videos about the making of My8days content. On our Cover we have talented and stunning musician Iris Gold and i promise you it just dosen´t get more fresh Also Click here to see my personal summer wardrobe favourites
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Masthead Creative Director Anja Poulsen Graphic Design Michael Detlef
Cover Photographer Anja Poulsen Stylist Liv Kragh Hair and Make-up Cianne Denize Hende
My8days inspire to your desire.
MY PERSONAL FAVORITES RIGHT NOW
T-shirt Dreams and Dust
Heels by Malone Souliers
Leather leggings Anine Bing
Bag See by Chloe
Sandals See by Chloe
Bangle Gas Bijoux
Shirt by Malene Birger
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Photo by Anja H Poulsen www.anjapoulsen.com Model Sam Laskey Vision and Mieke Visser Boss Models Stylist Line Givskov Hair and makeup Neveen Scello Retouch Thilde Dehlsen
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Beautiful white blouses & dresses that are perfect for any summer occasion Dress your style up & tone it down with these soft white elements
Blouse Fall Winter Spring Summer 219 euro
Blouse Samsøe Samsøe 95 euro, bikini bottom Weekday 11 euro, dress Samsoe Samsoe 122 euro
Top Monki 34 euro, shorts Samsøe Samsøe 80 euro
Bra models own, shorts Notes du Nord, dress Filippa K 390 euro
Blouse Dorothee Schumacher 364 euro, bikini bottom Weekday 11 euro
SHOP THE LOOK
Tunika ZARA
Pants See by Chloe
Blouse IRO
Blouse Theory
Dress Self Portrait
Blouse Self Portrait
Earrings Aurelie Bidenmann
Dress Baum & Pferdgarten
Dress Self Portrait
Top Monki 34 euro, shorts Samsøe Samsøe 80 euro
SHOP THE LOOK
Ring Maria Black
Bag Mango
Ring Sabrina Dehoff
Bangle Gas Bijoux
Bag See by Chloe
Earrings Dyrberg
Necklace Marc Jacobs
Bag Star Mela
Heels Malone Souliers
LOOKS WE LOVE
The number 1 wardrobe essential that can make all the difference: accessories! Image by Asia Typek www.edited-by.com
Photo by Anja H Poulsen www.anjapoulsen.com Model Kady Boss Models Stylist Line Givskov Hair and makeup Neveen Scello Retouch Thilde Dehlsen
Earrings Stinne Holm 424 euro, gold necklace Stinne Holm 202 euro, necklace with pendulum Stinne Holm 162 euro, origami necklace Stinne Holm 220 euro
G R A P H I C
BIJOUX
Statement necklaces, arm cuffs and big earrings are some of the jewellery trend you will see in 2017
Its much more bold, geometric and colorfull than last year Here we picked our favourite
Earrings Stinne Holm showpiece
Earrings Stinne Holm 269 euro Left hand: thick silver ring Stinne Holm 223 euro, thin silver ring Stinne Holm 128 euro, gold ring Stinne Holm 282 euro Right hand: large silver ring Stinne Holm 296 euro , open silver ring Stinne Holm 1500kr, gold ring Stinne Holm 511 euro
Ring Stinne Holm showpiece
Ring Tom Wood 303 euro
IRIS G
GOLD
Talented, stunning & positive Musician Iris Gold about her creative life and how she learned to stare adversity in the eye with a “bring it on� mentality
Photo Anja Poulsen www.anjapoulsen.com Stylist Liv Kragh www.livkragh.com Makeup Cianne Denize Hende
Swimsuit Zoe Karssen 108 euro, bomber jacket Zoe Karssen 390 euro
We meet up with talented, stunning and positive musician Iris Gold and had a talk about her life
Fur Saks Potts 1076 euro
Start by telling us a little bit about how your musical journey started for real? Well, the journey started when I was small. I was in a very special kindergarten. This woman who used to babysit me drove the bus, and I would just sing on it. People liked it so I just kept going You have been based in London for a long time, but you’re originally from Denmark; why did you move, and do you think moving away from your home evolved you and made you stronger? How was your first period of time in London? I was actually born in London, then I lived in Denmark for some time, then moved back to London. I’m just a cosmopolitan, so I enjoy the spirit and the challenges of both Copenhagen and London. The first period of time was amazing. In case you don’t know, there aren’t that many Black people in Denmark, so it was pretty cool to be in a place where there where so many people who looked like me. It was kind of freeing; I didn’t get as many stares and I could walk around in the rain with a plastic bag around my afro and no one gave a fuck. Being in a creative field, as the music business is, how do you stay inspired? I stay inspired by everything. I could take a walk and be inspired. When you’re a creative person it’s always there, like an invisible friend. If I don’t have it for 2-3 days, I miss it and need it.
Gold necklace Vera Vega 60 euro, track top Saks Potts 160 euro, track pants Saks Potts 120 euro
A creative business often involves ups and downs in our work lives. How do you deal with periods of maybe low income and not blaming yourself for it? I never blame myself for low income. I take things as they come and just try and live in this world and do things that make me smile. Like Bob Marley asked: “Do possessions make you rich?” I don’t think so, and I’m rich as fuck when it comes to love and friends and all that good shit. Music is an art form, and, like all other expressive art forms, I know it’s a very personal journey. Are you good at letting people in to help you with the music? What collaborations are the most precious to you? My most precious collaborations are the ones I have with my two uncles and Mr Anderson. We usually write while cooking in the kitchen and it’s just very organic, like the food. You have been doing a lot of live shows recently in Cannes at Midem Festival, SPOT and Distortion Festival in Denmark. Where can we see you next? I’ve got some cool shows throughout the summer. I was at Aalborg Pride on the 8th of July with my DJ Chris P Cuts, and then you can see me at Stella Polaris Festival on July 29th. In August, it’s the 4th for Malmö Pride, 19th and 24th in Copenhagen, and a few more TBC.
In these times with a lot of online social media attention, are you thinking about doing something special to follow that trend and to keep people updated about you and your music, or are you more private? Online or in real life, I’m fabulous. No doubt you are talented, stunningly beautiful, and have the best positive energy. Tell us a bit about where this enthusiasm comes from; family? Friends? Life itself ? When you have been dealing with adversity throughout your life, it will either kill you or make you blossom into a positive person, and I decided very early on in life that I would always be positive, energetic, and a gogetter. How was growing up in Denmark, being one of the few kids with your amazing, big, curly hair when most kids at that time had straight, long, blond hair? At some point it shifted for me. When I was a kid it was really hard to be different, but then you learn to deal with it, and you learn to use it for your own good and to use it as an advantage.
Top Weekday 34 euro
You have a very unique style and look, when did you decide to embrace the way you look instead of following others? I just wear what I wear and what I feel comfortable in. It’s not a look, it’s just how I am. I had a lot of grandmums, mums and aunties, and they were all super funky, so they inspired me. Plus, they let me have a lot of their clothes, which I still wear to this day. If I feel it, I feel it, and I wear it. As you know, My8days have a huge rebel in our hearts when it comes to the fact that fashion magazines, in general, still show mostly people with light skin on their covers. In our world today (including the Scandinavian countries), even just where we have our office, we see women from so many ethnicities, and to me it doesn’t make sense that they aren’t equally represented in the media. I am hoping our little voices and magazine get noticed and can somehow help the movement toward more equal content and covers. Is this something you think about, and do you see the importance of making this change and encouraging young people to love and embrace the way they look?
Blazer Baum und Pherdgarten 403 euro, skirt Baum und Pherdgarten 268 euro, t-shirt Gestuz 54 euro, socks H&M 7 euro , shoes ZARA 54 euro
Yes, I would definitely love to be an inspiration. The fact that you are different is what makes you special, in my opinion. It would’ve been cool, I think, to have more women who looked like me represented in the media in Denmark while I was growing up. Hopefully I can be one of those role models that weren’t there when I was a kid. Finally, do you have any exciting future projects for 2017? And do you have any great advice for aspiring musicians about how to get started in this business today? I have Music coming out in 2017, a whole lot of live performances, and exciting features. As far as advice goes, I’d say keep going, be yourself, it will happen when it’s supposed to. Sunglasses Le Specs 68 euro, Bikini top H&m 14 euro,blazer By Malene Birger 377 euro, pants By Malene Birger 242 euro, sneakers Adidas 108 euro
Dress Dorothee Schumacher 538 euro, bracelet gold Plisse Copenhagen 68 euro, bracelet colored Plisse Copenhagen 81 euro
SHOP THE LOOK
Sweater Marc Jacobs
Sneakers Adidas
Dress DKNY
Necklace Marc Jacobs
Sweater Kenzo
Skirt Marc Jacobs
Dress Malene Birger
Bomber Mango
Bag Marc Jacobs
T-shirt Zoe Karssen
Skirt GAP
Heels Marc by Marc Jacobs
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Take a dip with us and see our favourites pool side musthaves
Photo by Anja H Poulsen www.anjapoulsen.com Model Rochagne Zone models Stylist Line Givskov Hair and makeup Neveen Scello Retouch Thilde Dehlsen
Swimsuit Hanne Bloch
Bikini top Weekday 16 euro bikini bottom Weekday 11 euro
Bbikini top Weekday 16 euro, bikini bottom Weekday 11 euro
Left: Bikini top Weekday 16 euro, sunglasses Marc Jacobs 242 euro Right: Bikini Hanne Bloch 242 euro
HEALTHY LIFE
We met up with 58 old yogi Yvonne Hansen and had an inspiring talk about yoga and WHY yoga is so good for us
Photographer Anja Poulsen www.blinkproduction.com
YOGA HAS NO AGE In this issue I had a talk with Yvonne Hansen, a wonderful 58 years old woman that for sure is a great inspiration to all of us. We talked about her personal journey with Yoga and her getting introduced to it at a young age but she didn’t really fall in love with it until years later. And now today, she is teaching her own classes and seminars and is about to release her 2. yogabook.
Tell us a little bit about your journey with yoga, when did you first fall in love with it and start to practice and teach for real? Yoga came to me early in my life, but I never held onto anything back then. I shopped around a little in the different offers that kept popping up. But in 2005 I decided that enough was enough. It was time for me and my interests. I wanted to be in good shape
and learn more about my body and my mind. First I took a two-year yoga course. Then a one-year pilates course, alongside learning about anatomy and movement. I did it for my own sake, but got thrown into teaching at the beginning of 2006, and discovered that I loved it. Since then it’s only grown. I thought it was late to change direction at the age of 46, but there were actually several people who were even older than me at the courses, and more or less all of them have fantastic careers in yoga and pilates today (even though they’re over 60 or even 70 years old by now). So it’s never too late. I can only recommend doing it, for your own sake if for nothing else; you don’t have to teach. I think it takes lot of self control to actually keep doing something every day for years; what motivates you, and what benefits does yoga give your body? When I was first introduced to Yin Yoga in 2007, it was love at first sight. It’s a fantastic supplement to our lives and other forms of exercise. It improves everything in your life. Even though I can’t brag about practicing it every day, I still find ways to implement it into my everyday routine. Even if I’m just watching TV or checking social media, I’ll sit in a yin pose or lie on my stomach on the floor. Five minutes in a pose a day is better than nothing. I was often dealing with minor injuries from the many hours of pilates, so Yin Yoga became my way of taking care of myself.
One thing is for sure: I’m sticking to Yin Yoga, and always will, as I feel a significant difference in my body. A lot of people think Yoga is a bit time consuming in our busy life today, is it possible to integrate yoga as a small daily practice that doesn’t take hours? If yes, do you have some great poses that are amazing for the stress and tension we all feel because of the need to always be available? In everyday life you can do as previously described; implement a pose or two in your routine. It quickly becomes a good habit.
Start by spending more time on the floor. If you really need to calm down, I have two good exercises. The first one is “legs up the wall”. Even if you don’t have a wall available, put a pillow underneath you (see photo). You can use it as a time-out, a nap in the afternoon, or to calm down with before going to bed. It can remedy insomnia and increase the quality of your sleep. You calm way down, your nervous system relaxes, and your body rests and digests.
Blood pressure decreases while a bit more blood flows to your brain. Your whole back lies stretched out, relaxed, and heavy. Imagine how good it would be if there were time for just five minutes like this in the middle of the day. Not only for the nervous system, but also to give the spine a break and give the intervertebral discs a chance to absorb nutrition so they’re more shock-absorbent. Another good little exercise is a combination of a breathing exercise and a meditation. You calm down completely and live in the infamous now, where the body always is. Breathing exercise for tranquility and presence: (excerpt form Vol. 2) Sit with crossed arms and a hand in each armpit, so your four fingers point backward and your thumbs point ahead. Press your hands lightly to your chest, close your eyes, and breathe evenly into both hands. Sit like this for 1-5 minutes until your breathing is even and you feel calm and in a better mood. Since you started yoga later on in your life, have you ever felt like your body missed out on a lot of things? Or is yoga something that’s never really too late to start practicing? It’s never too late to start. I have participants over the age of 80, for whom it’s made an incredible difference. In Yin Yoga the pose doesn’t have to look at certain way. It’s about whether you feel a
stretch, so you stimulate the connective tissue into becoming stronger and more flexible and make the energy flow. We all have different bodies with an array of infirmities. So it’s your anatomy, your body, and your health that determines how you carry out a pose. Do you need another variation? Is there need for additional aid, or maybe an alternative pose?
Why did you decide to write your book Yin Yoga? Was it an easy journey? I wrote “YIN YOGA – Stretch Yourself to Wellness Vol. 1” because I couldn’t help myself. There’s been written a lot of book about yoga and the different branches of yoga, but only a few about Yin Yoga, and none in Danish until now. My lovely participants were the ones that encouraged me when I moved to Stockholm in the fall of 2012. The move gave me the time and opportunity to write. It was like a seed being sown. A sprout that kept growing and continues to do so. Previously I primarily taught pilates, but I could tell that the participants lacked flexibility in order to feel comfortable in their bodies, like I, myself, had experienced. Therefore I introduced them to Yin Yoga. They would’ve never signed up for it if they hadn’t known me already. Yoga can, for some people, be associated with incense and Lotus poses. To include this demographic in the book, my approach became no nonsense, easily accessible, and without sanskrit names or too many yoga terms. And I hit my mark. It’s been a satisfying and educational journey. A huge piece of work, but the satisfaction is great when the book gets received as intended. I’m happy.
At first I contacted different publishers, but was told there weren’t many yoga books out there. They didn’t didn’t address the fact that Yin Yoga, specifically, is a bit different, and a newer branch of yoga. I decided to publish myself; make a website and all the other practical stuff that follows. You have to keep yourself going when you get older. Learn new things, they say. That’s what I’ve done and continue to do, and it’s a major satisfaction and privilege. You’re actually releasing another book after the summer, what’s it about? YIN YOGA – Stretch Your Way to Wellness Vol. 2 is written as a continuation of the ground book, YIN YOGA – Stretch Yourself to Wellness Vol.1, but can easily stand alone and be read as an independent book. It’s for those who already practice Yin Yoga, but want to be inspired to go a little deeper with their practice. Vol. 2 contains, amongst other things, the poses from Vol. 1 with new variations, a lot of completely new poses, 20 programs lasting 20-30 minutes each, suggestions for weekly programs, meridians and other energy terms, relevant anatomy, and meditation with exercises.
And do you have any other exciting future projects you want to share? My next project is to make audio files for the programs in Vol. 2 so you can close your eyes and practice whilst being guided through them. At the same time I’m considering making a poster or postcard or the like for all the poses from Vol. 2 so it’s always easy to bring with you or hang up where you practice. When I wrote Vol. 1, the hardest part was picking and choosing. I have to much I want to share, but for the message to remain simple, I had to scrap about 75%. So I’ve always felt that I have three books in me. Maybe there’ll be a Vol. 3, but for now Vol. 2 has to come out first. I won’t reveal any of the content of Vol. 3 right now, since I know form experience that nothing is set in stone until the writing process starts. And lastly, if you could pick 4 healthy things that you think everyone should do because it really makes a difference health-wise, what would that be? 1.Move and preserve yourself – it’s important to exercise your whole life. Walk or run. The most important part is finding the kind of exercise that makes you happy. 2.Spend more time on the floor – like indigenous peoples, you can remain strong and flexible your entire life if you just spend a
bit of time on the floor every day. It doesn’t have to be a special Yin Yoga pose. Lie on your stomach, sit in different positions, and don’t make it harder than it actually is. 3.Meditate – Formally – sit down and focus on your breathing, as explained above. Informally – be present in all that you do. Try it; it provides self-awareness in behavior and patterns and increases quality of life. 4.Be thankful just once a day – Say thank you for everything you have, and everything that comes your way, even if it’s “just” access to clean water, a roof over your head, and the fact that you can breathe. Focus on the good and it will come you way.
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Yoga Mat H&M
Leggings YAS
Top Fenty PUMA by Rihanna
Sweatshirt Fenty PUMA by Rihanna
Sweatpants Fenty PUMA by Rihanna
Top Fenty PUMA by Rihanna
Top Adidas by Stella McCartney
Leggings Adidas by Stella McCartney
Sweater Kenzo
BEHIND THE SHOOT
For this issue we took a trip to Cape Town in South Africa and shot our editorials on the most amazing locations, so come along and get a little look behind the creation of My8days issue 07
For the horse story I went to South Africa with a stylist and as I already visualised how the set up would be it was a true joy to photograph these 2 fantastic models and the horse. What I didn’t expect was the fact that this big amazing white horse was quite wild, but thankfully one of the models was very used to horses in general and she had a good solid grib on him.
Photographer Anja Poulsen www.blinkproduction.com
For the coverstory I had the chance to capture the amazing musician Iris gold. I have actually been following her for quite a while on social media, and suddenly one day I got a message from her. And from then on, we totally wanted to create something together so we ended up doing this fierce cover story and interview.
I love shooting Beauty and jewellery. The images often end up being so intimate and full of energy because you are so close to the models. Here the models Cousin came along, he was driving her around that day, and as he was stunning too we just decided to have him play along. I think the images end up being just amazing.
A team selfie. There is for sure no shoot if you don`t have a great team to work with. It is a shared effort that makes everything amazing in the end.
Shooting on location is in general a gift. It gives so much to an image and especially when the scenery is this amazing. Here we have the beautiful Table Mountain in Cape Town as our background.
Summer
MONOCHROMATIC The monochromatic style is a trend and the easiest way to
keep it interesting is just to mix different textures
Take a look at the top street-style stars who’ve worn all black, all white, or a mix of both. Here we have styled the story a bit more natural and organic. So get inspired and see our favourites in shop the look.
Photo by Anja H Poulsen www.anjapoulsen.com Model Agnoushka Ladewig Vision Stylist Line Givskov Hair and makeup Neveen Scello Retouch Thilde Dehlsen
Bathing suit Weekday 27 euro, pants Vanessa Bruno AthĂŠ 263 euro
Blouse 2ndday 121 euro, skirt Pierre Balmain 437 euro
T-shirt Dreams & Dust 67 euro
Dress Samsøe Samsøe 95 euro
SHOP THE LOOK
Bag Even and Odd
Dress Carven
Top Theory
Shirt Marques Almeida
Pumps 2nd Day
Skirt Marc Jacobs
Blouse Vero Moda
Blouse Marc Jacobs
Kimono Selected Femme
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