Scan Magazine – August 2018

“If I was going to do this, I was going to

do it the very, very best I could,” said this

month’s cover star, Alicia Vikander. She

was talking about her effort as Lara Croft

in the reboot of Tomb Raider, for which

she transformed her body completely and

performed some frankly extraordinary

stunts. But this same sentiment of giving

everything seems to have been a part of

her attitude since long before she be-

came Hollywood’s sweetheart and was offered the role of filling

Angelina Jolie’s shoes: she went to ballet school, dancing for

ten hours straight every day; she set out to meet new people and

started approaching random folks in Stockholm, bluntly asking

them to be her friend; she moved to London in the hope of getting

a break as an actor, living in a freezing Portobello Road apart-

ment with rats. When her now-husband, Michael Fassbender,

described her as “fierce and brave”, he was not lying.

I think that idea of going all in is worth hanging onto, especially

at a time of calculated social media posts and filters slapped

onto everything. Perhaps it might mean upgrading that trip from

a city weekend in Scandinavia to a week-long adventure explor-

ing the stunning icebergs and local communities of Greenland;

perhaps it means turning a devastating diagnosis into a spark

that becomes a new outlook on life and a bright, beautiful jew-

Dear Reader,

ellery brand. Maybe it means leaving your phone behind on your

next trip to Sweden to enter an unknown escape room or trek

through the woods to a nature experience without electricity,

running water and WiFi. Or, indeed, it could mean taking a leaf

out of Jukka Hildén’s book, be it on an extended mountain excur-

sion or simply in terms of pushing the boundaries of what your

mind is capable of.

Whether it is the back-to-school buzz that has me thinking big or I

am just completely spellbound by Alicia Vikander’s determination

and poise, I do not know. What I do know is that, from Finnish

jewellery design to Norwegian craft and Greenlandic innovation,

there is plenty in this issue to inspire – and aiming low was never

the Scandinavian way. Now, I am off to force a three-year-old to sit

through an eternity of blood tests. What can I say? I am going all in.

Linnea Dunne,

Editor

Scan Magazine

Issue 115

August 2018

Published 08.

ISSN 1757-

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