The Coveted: Where do you live and work?
Anjah Hynynen: I live and work in Stockholm, Sweden. I also stay from time to time at Ardalanish organic farm on the remote Hebredean Isles of Scotland and work there together with them.

TC: What are you obsessing on these days?
AH:This whole summer I stayed at Ardalanish in Scotland designing a collection from their organic tweeds. We like to sew the clothes there at the farm as well, to have the production of clothes at the same place as the tweed is being woven and where the sheep live on the hills around which feels like a magic thing. So thats what a lot of time is being dedicated right now as well as making samples. Also together with my friends and eco designer colleagues Johanna Hofring and Benita Ben Djama we are working on local production of clothes here at home in Stockholm.

TC: When did you decide it was important to design with organic fabrics?
AH: Five years ago I was an apprentice at a tailor. I couldn’t work with certain fabrics because some gave me allergic reactions. That made me really start to think about the textile aspect of organic, realizing the bad sides of textile industry. For if I get sick from working with those fabrics, how sad is the health of the farmers, spinners, dyers, the people who made this cloth. During my upbringing organic food, skin care etc. was the natural choice so when coming to think of the textile industry I thought that must be possible to make in an organic way as well (it is!). And that´s when the detective work of finding organic textile producers begun…

Anjah Hynynen can be found on her website: www.anjah.se