In the course of speaking about her wedding, Nora Arrhenius Hagdahl describes herself as “very much a fashion girl,” “a flirty girl,” “a craft girl,” and “a waist girl.” So, to accommodate all of these different aspects of herself, the bride donned three looks over the course of the celebration at which drew creatives from Berlin, London, and Stockholm.
Hagdahl, an art critic and co-founder (with Frida Vega Salomonsson) of Nuda Paper, a culture and fashion magazine, tied the knot with Kornél Kovács a DJ, music producer and co-founder (with Axel Boman and Petter Nordkvist) of the record label Studio Barnhus. They were introduced by a mutual friend one cold and dark winter in 2021. “It was very much like love at first sight,” Hagdahl recalls. “Kornél was basically telling me that he wanted to get married after a couple of times that we met. And I was like, ‘Yeah, sure, let’s make that happen.’ It is just a very natural and electric and fantastic relationship.”
As Nuda regularly stages exhibitions and happenings, Hagdahl took the wedding planning in her stride. “I always dreamed of having a big party for my friends, and because I lived in different places and Kornél has so many friends all over the world, the dream was to have everybody meet,” she says. “That was the big appeal for me, to have all these worlds come together.” This comingling took place at the bride’s parents’ home in Opptuna, about an hour away from Stockholm. The houses on the property, which are surrounded by fields, date to the 18th and 19th century and there is archeological evidence that the area has been inhabited since the early Bronze Age. There was nothing retrograde in the wedding attire, however. The groom wore Our Legacy and the bride’s first dress, made of vintage shirt collars, was by Ellen Hodakova Larsson, whom Hagdahl has previously written for.
The bride’s something old: A Hodakova dress made of vintage collars.
Photo: Luke Sullivan
