Reykjavík Grapevine - 05.03.2010, Blaðsíða 32

STUFFED WITH STUFF ISSUE 03 YOUR FREE COPY
YOUR ESSEnTIal gUIDE TO lIFE, TRavEl anD EnTERTaInmEnT In ICElanD
PaGe 10:
The problem is that ‘Fashion’ itself
as a business model is in every
way entirely anti-sustainable and
that is how it was designed to be.
The fashion industry is the biggest
pollutant of this world, environ-
mentally and socially.
Fashion designer Sruli Recht has got some
opinions...
PaGe 10:
There’s no general identity of
Icelandic design or style. Except
maybe fulled wool and that sorta
crap, which I don’t envision as
the future of Icelandic design.
Folks need to realise that gam-
bit is pretty much GAME OVER,
look to the young designers and
see what they’re offering. That
Skólavörðustígur-trash isn’t quite
pulling it any more.
...as does young master Mundi.
PaGe 24:
Icelandic people have gone ab-
solutely bananas in the last ten
years, they all want fucking money
money money, holidays, crap crap
crap.
It sometimes takes a clown to reveal the grim
truth behind it all. Lee Nelson is that clown.
PaGe 6:
Had McDonalds not left the island,
a Big Mac would have cost 780
Króna, or $6.36 USD, making it
the most expensive Big Mac in the
world, according to the 2009 Big
Mac Index.
Just as well they left, eh?
PaGe 8:
In parliament he might thrash
his opponents with his sarcasm,
whereas at party conventions he
put on the guise of a pope, as if
these were almost holy gatherings.
Egill Helgason dissects the myth of... c’mon,
you know who!
PaGe 8:
Speaking slowly and clearly when
you chat with me would help
ooooh so much! The only Icelandic
people I can truly understand are
the newsreaders on TV. Everyone
else just sounds like a malfunc-
tioning lawnmower.
Bob Cluness is having some problems master-
ing the íslensku.