Season after season Sandra Backlund proves to be knitwear’s bright and shinning star. Pushing the barometer for knitwear possibilities and achieving innovative wearability more and more as she paves the path for an extremely niche market that is gaining increasingly more attention in the fashion world.

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With 10 self-titled collections under her belt its safe to say that Sandra Backlund is one of the fashion industries largest wells of inspirations. Each season she succeeds in pushing boundaries of conventional design and knitwear techniques to unexplored territories, and ALWAYS delivers a jaw dropping collection. Falling nothing short of this standard is Backlund’s SS 2010 Collection featured here with signature photography by Peter Gehrke.

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For her latest collection Sandra Backlund has collaborated with Maglificio Miles (an Italian knitwear manufacturing company). The collection was shown at the White Club back in March. Read the full story

To celebrate London Fashion Week, Selfridges have teamed up with AnOther Magazine for a very special installation at the London store. As a salute to British talent, beautiful actress du jour Tilda Swinton will grace the cover of AnOther shot by Craig McDean, wearing dresses made exclusively by British designers;  Read the full story

As always its our utter pleasure at Trendland to bring you The Sandra Backlund Spring/Summer 2009 Collection entitled “Pool Position”. The brilliant conception of her hand knitted and crocheted collection reiterates over and over that Backlund must have been born with knitting needles for fingers. I did some research to find out exactly where the title of her new collection came from but found no background, when I look at the collection i do not really see I get a very string idea of the battlefield, ideas of armor and shields presented in all different shapes and forms. Read the full story

For winter, take a look at Sandra Backlund‘s newest collection, and her origami style knits for more interesting ways to wear knits. Stay warm, look amazing.