Hilde Marstrander is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 fashion journalist and illustrator

Illustrator

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. She is the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian design

Design

Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...

 magazine SNITT.

Hilde Marstrander is one of Norway's most notable fashion journalists, after starting as a fashion design

Fashion design

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er in London

London

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 and Paris

Paris

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. Her journalism career began as fashion assistant for the paper Motejournalen in 1994, before becoming a presenter on ZTV

ZTV

-History:The channel started in Sweden as a daily afternoon show in TV3 and TV4 in February 1991. The channel got its name as it was a simulcast version of the radio station Z Radio. There was also a Z magazine available for some time....

 and fashion editor for ELLE

Elle

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. She has also worked for VG

Verdens Gang

Verdens Gang , generally known under the abbreviation VG, is a Norwegian tabloid newspaper...

, Aftenposten

Aftenposten

Aftenposten is Norway's largest newspaper. It retook this position in 2010, taking it from the tabloid Verdens Gang which had been the largest newspaper for several decades. It is based in Oslo. The morning edition, which is distributed across all of Norway, had a circulation of 250,179 in 2007...

, Avisenes Pressebyrå, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Det Nye

Det Nye

Det Nye is a Norwegian magazine that comes out every three weeks. The target group is women from 18 to 35 years. It contains feature articles, as well as material on careers, fashion, sex and relationships. Its circulation was 68,765 in 2004. The editor is Elisabet Skårberg. It is owned by Hjemmet...

, and Se og Hør

Se og Hør

Se og Hør is a Norwegian magazine, and the largest in the country in terms of circulation.It comes out twice a week . The readers are relatively well distributed between sex and age groups. It contains news about celebrities and royalty, as well as a TV-guide. Its circulation was 288,510 in 2004...

, among others. Her comments on the dress of female politicians and royalty started public discussion that other journalists branded "the dress debate" at the beginning of the new millennium.

On 12 August 1998 she established Studio Deluxe Hilde Marstrander as an Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

-based company to handle her business activities. In 2004, with Pia Haraldsen

Pia Haraldsen

Pia Renate Haraldsen is a Norwegian TV personality, comedian and author, most known for her interviews on the Norwegian TV show Rikets Røst....

 and Rene Charles Gustavsen, she became a judge on TV3

TV3 (Norway)

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's shopping programme Shopaholic. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Norwegian design

Design

Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...

 magazine SNITT.

She attracted media attention for her longstanding relationship with blues

Blues

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 guitarist

Guitarist

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 Vidar Busk, for whom she has designed suits and record covers.