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Femhenge by Randall Hobbet

Models: Murina Fae, Dasha, Sienna Hayes, Femina

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Jacques Fath Haute Couture Spring/Summer 1953 Collection.Stella Marais wears a three-quarter length coat and a light gray and black printed faille dress in Rhodia acetate by Bianchini-Férier. The coat is lined with pink satin by Lesage.

Jacques Fath Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1953. Stella Marais porte un ensemble manteau 7/8ème, une robe en faille imprimée gris clair et noir en Acétate Rhodia de Bianchini-Férier. Le manteau est doublé de satin rose de Lesage.

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Tuva Novotny's Style Journey (20 October 2024)

By Linus Brannstrom

Tuva Novotny has gone her own way. And that also applies to her clothes – Femina has taken a look at her style journey, from her breakthrough in the late 90s to today.

She was only a teenager when she got the role of Nora in Different Worlds in 1996. But Tuva Novotny had already been preparing for an acting career for many years – even as a small child, she directed her younger siblings, her parents have said.

Tuva Novotny was born in Stockholm but the family moved to Åmot in Värmland when she was just a few years old. She herself has described it as a green wave thing and both parents have had artistic careers – father David a director and mother Barbro an actress and artist.

– My family is as far from capitalism and career thinking as you can get. It was more, bang! Stanislavskij on the table. But above all, they have supported me in my choice of profession. They have pushed and cherished me, given me both criticism and encouragement, she told Expressen early in her career.

“I have seen fame as an intervention”

From her breakthrough in the soap opera, Tuva Novotny has gone on to become one of our most acclaimed actresses – and now she is also a director. Most recently, she has appeared in the acclaimed series Allt och Eva .

At the same time, she has been highlighted as extremely private and a kind of new Greta Garbo. For many years, she has lived in Denmark while she has basically never been seen at celebrity parties – apart from her own film premieres – and in interviews she has never spoken about her private life.

– I have seen fame as an intervention. I think it seems incredibly difficult to have a public life on social media. God, what work it must take, Tuva Novotny has told Café.

Wanted to create debate about appearance fixation

There has been a lot of talk about her private life lately. The reason for this is that she had her third child the other year, the first with her love Alexander Skarsgård. But even though they are two of Sweden's most famous actors, they managed to keep their relationship secret for a long time before the child.

– Very simple. You don't move around in public, you're not on social media and you don't talk about your private life, Tuva Novotny told Café.

When the same magazine, which then had a slightly different character, named Tuva Novotny Sweden's sexiest woman in 2000, she had herself photographed in jeans and a sweater, without makeup.

– I tried to create a debate about the fixation on appearance. Naively perhaps. But I did what I could, she told Expressen a few years later.

Check out Tuva Novotny's style journey through the years

That attitude has since been noticeable throughout her career. Over the years, she has often appeared in washed-out t-shirts and on the red carpet she has more often been seen in a suit than a dress. Check out Tuva Novotny's style journey in the photos below.

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George Barbier. Cover of Femina, 1926.

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Alkoholterapeutens 5 råd till kvinnor som dricker | Femina

Ny forskning visar att alkoholkonsumtionen ökar, särskilt bland kvinnor över 60 år. Experten My Skarsgård belyser problematiken.

My Skarsgård: This is why alcohol addiction is increasing among women

Women and alcohol is an issue that should receive more attention.

Doctor and alcohol therapist My Skarsgård believes so.

- It is really tough to be a woman and have these problems. It is much more stigmatizing, she says.

The guilt and shame have the consequence that women both seek and receive help later than men.

IQ's Alcohol Index is an overall measure of the Swedes' attitude to alcohol, which is created based on the answers to a number of questions about drinking in different situations. The latest survey from 2022 stood out in particular on a few points:

Fewer think it's wrong to drink to memory gaps (49 percent vs. 68 percent in 2010), fewer think it's wrong to get drunk when children are around (50 percent vs. 62 percent in 2010).

And: while young people over time drink less alcohol, today's elderly have the most permissive attitudes. Women's attitude to alcohol has never been so positive since the measurements began more than 20 years ago.

Women's alcohol consumption is increasing

It is an image that My Skarsgård, who runs Myggebo treatment and retreats with preventive courses on alcohol and drugs, recognizes.

- In the past it was very unusual for women to drink, today the gap between men and women has narrowed. That slightly older women over 60 are the group that increases the most is something that I also see. There are many people of that age who make contact, notes My Skarsgård. One of the reasons for the increased alcohol consumption among older women, she believes, could be that people are retiring or downsizing their jobs.

- As long as you work, you may limit your consumption "I don't drink on Sunday, only on Saturday and not on weekdays", in order to do your job. When you suddenly don't have work to go to, it can become a crisis in itself and you let go of your own regulations.

- If you have already established a relationship with alcohol and, above all, the effect of alcohol, it can go quickly, very quickly. I have experienced that during these years that I have worked.

Women don't drink for "party-party"

But it can also take time. According to My Skarsgård, women wait longer than men to seek help for their addiction problems. Partly because you stick to the belief "I have to fix this myself", and partly because the way of drinking generally differs between the sexes.

- Many women use alcohol as a sedative. You don't drink to party and for the kicks, but to reduce stress and anxiety, which means that a woman's drinking does not have as many external consequences as a man's. Men can thereby, which may seem a little unfair, more easily be noticed by those around them and thus be offered help earlier. The fact that women's abuse occurs more under the surface means, My Skarsgård further points out, that women can often have more health problems than men, both physical and psychological. If the feeling is that the wine reduces stress and calms the body, science shows that anxiety and depression are two of the diseases that alcohol abuse causes. Which often means even more stigma.

- What you often see with women who have destructive drinking is that they increasingly begin to isolate themselves. They sit at home drinking and start avoiding their friends, it's really sad. But this is because the shame and guilt are often far greater in women than in men.

- The shame gives an extremely low self-esteem and self-loathing in the end, says My Skarsgård.

"Knew I would die if I continued"

She talks about all the women she has met in her professional role but also from her own experience. My Skarsgård, who for many years was married to the actor Stellan Skarsgård, has previously publicly told how she became addicted to alcohol after a cancer diagnosis.

- I was one of those who had an enormous amount of shame when I drank. I was never out and about and never drank to experience the high, and it also managed to go very far for me. I had started vomiting blood and was almost dying. I'm a doctor and thought I had cirrhosis of the liver (cirrhosis), says My.

Still, she continued to drink, eventually a bottle of vodka a day. Because that's how the brain works when abstinence takes hold, she states:

- I knew that I had developed alcoholism and that I would die if I continued, but when you have such abstinence, the brain does not work as it should. It is a cruel disease in that way.

- The feeling that the alcohol makes me survive is enormously stronger than the realization that I am drinking myself to death. says My Skarsgård.

The turning point came one morning around Christmas 2006 when she had no booze at home. It was a crisis and she had severe withdrawal.

- I went to my brother who lived upstairs to see if he had any alcohol, sneaked around and had found a bottle of punch when I heard someone enter the apartment.

She hid in a closet and that's where her brother found her, clutching the bottle of punch.

- Then he said something that hit home for the first time: "you need help". There were many occasions before that could have been a turning point, but right then I was receptive.

After a couple of years of sobriety, she decided she wanted to devote her professional life to working with alcohol problems. At Myggebo in the Stockholm archipelago, she has developed a research-based method in three steps. The MyLife method is adapted to different target groups, with the same result: Through knowledge, people get the tools to find a joyful life, where alcohol is no longer allowed to rule.

The Skarsgård children have taken a course with their mother

The fact that she has more women than men on her courses is unusual, but perhaps that has something to do with her choosing to come out and talk about her addiction as well.

- The fact that I chose to talk publicly about my alcoholism may have contributed to so many women coming, that makes me happy. It is much more stigmatized for women and reading about others can give hope and courage. It is important that we dare to talk about the problems, also to show that there is a solution. It is possible to get out of even a developed alcoholism.

Some of those who also took a course with My Skarsgård to learn more about addiction are her six children that she had with Stellan Skarsgård, something that Valter Skarsgård told about in a previous interview with Femina. (https://www.femina.se/intervju/valter-skarsgard-beck-borje-salming/8941107)

- Everyone has taken the course, which is fantastic. For Gustaf, it came to mean an enormous amount to get the knowledge, compared to whether it comes from me as a mother whom he also experienced as ill. Then you don't have much to offer if you have views...

- It was an eye-opener for Gustaf and I'm very happy about that. He has been sober for ten years now, says My Skarsgård. She concludes by dispelling some of the myths surrounding alcohol. It's not just about screwing up if you've developed alcoholism, but it's possible to have a fun life even without alcohol.

- There are many people who have been with me who get in touch after a few years and tell me about what the new life has given them. No, it will not turn out as you have thought or feared. It gets so much better.

Five myths about alcohol to be aware of according to My Skarsgård

1. "I need the wine to de-stress"

"Even if you haven't developed alcoholism, you can develop a psychological dependence and start using alcohol to change different emotions or to relax: 'Oh how nice, Friday night, the work week is over, then I can relax with wine', which is very counterproductive. It is a common experience that you drink because you feel bad, when you usually feel bad because you drink."

2. “I sleep better after drinking”

"The experience can certainly be that you fall asleep more easily when you drink, but many people find it difficult to see that the sleep is bad. It is extremely common to have sleep problems if you have an overconsumption. You fall asleep but wake up when the alcohol leaves your body, often with stress that makes it difficult to fall asleep again."

3. "I can tolerate a lot, therefore I am not in the risk zone"

"It's exactly the opposite. The risk of developing alcoholism is greater if you drink large amounts at the same time. We get an increase in tolerance when we drink which makes us tolerate more and more and need an even larger amount to get the effect we are looking for. Physiologically, it is also the case that women endure less than men. We have smaller bodies and a little more subcutaneous fat, while men have more body fluid, which means that the alcohol becomes more diluted in the fluid in the blood.”

4. "You can't have fun as a sober alcoholic"

"It's also a common misconception, that you think drinking makes you so much fun. Because that's how you experience it. But it's enough to be sober and look at people who think they're funny when they're drunk. The sad thing about alcohol is that you lose all your interests and that alcohol eventually takes precedence over human relationships. You can both experience and be afraid of 'getting boring', I often hear that, but you can find an enormous amount of joy in a sober life, And that joy is genuine, unlike the joy of alcohol. Personally, I have never had as much fun as when I got sober.”

5. "I can stop myself"

"If you've only been drinking more than is good for you for a short period of time, you can stop abruptly, but if you've developed an addiction, it doesn't work physiologically. It's not just about screwing on the cork. You really need help and the brain needs time to function normally again. If you get help, you often have support for a year and then hopefully you have established a network of people who are also sober, which is a big advantage."

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