Photoday | Galerie | MASTERCLASS 2016 | Nanó Wallenius, KASKA (Antwerp)

Dress for Success The year was 2007. Like the hormonal teenager I was, I cried like a baby when my conscript boyfriend waved me goodbye at the train station. The evening before I had carefully shaved his hair. Again and again I tried telling myself that it is okay not to see him every single day. The same evening I packed my bags and traveled to Kungsholmen in Stockholm to stay with a family friend in order to think about something else for a week. This wasn’t exactly a brilliant idea. It didn’t take many days before I snapped. I ran to the park and sat down to cry on a giant stone. In the same time my boyfriend sent me a message - he didn’t want to be in the army anymore. Initially he wanted to choose community service over military service, but his dad had strongly opposed this. ___ Take it Like a Man During my second year in upper secondary school, I, like most other second year students, wanted to participate in the annual old style dancing course. This course results in a dance show for the whole school to show that the second year’s now are the oldest students once the seniors have left school to start cramming for the final exams. During the dance show all the girls wear prom dresses and the boys wear tailored suits. I was very excited about this and I bought my dress a whole year in advance. It was turquoise with rhinestones all over the torso and a corset in the back. I asked a guy in my year if he wanted to be my partner for the dancing course and he said yes. The day of the first dance lesson was finally here and I saw my partner on the other side of our school’s gym hall. Another girl from my year was standing next to him. I asked him what was happening and he said he couldn’t remember me ever asking him to be my dance partner. I left class in fury, I withdrew my participation and I never wore my turquoise dress. ___ Only Last Spring I Started Wearing Pink "Pink is a pale red color, which takes its name from the flower of the same name. According to surveys in Europe and the United States, pink is the color most often associated with love, beauty, charm, politeness, sensitivity, tenderness, sweetness, childhood, femininity, and the romantic. When combined with violet or black, it is associated with eroticism and seduction." - Wikipedia