Fashion illustrator, fashion stylist, costume designer, and author. She was educated at Otte Sköld's painting school and Beckmans's School (now Beckmans College of Design) in Stockholm. She worked as a designer during the 1950s-1960s for Wahls and Martinette, and later for Saléns. Thereafter, she freelanced for different clothing companies in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and England, focusing mainly on work clothes. Kerstin's fashion illustrations were used in advertisements in the daily press and various weekly fashion reportages. among her noteworthy works include costumes for movies. She was a television host during the late 1970s, on a show where she talked about fashion and gave sewing tips. Kerstin had a significant impact on teen fashion because she both worked as a model (in the late 1940s, often with Gunilla Pontén) and was one of the first to design clothing for young adults in Sweden - at Wahls and Martinette. Kerstin also wrote a column for fashion interested teens in the Aller's family magazine. Kerstin has written many books about dressmaking; one of the most popular ones being Förklädesboken ("The Book of Aprons", 1981)- she loved aprons for being both practical and decorative. Enkla kläder (1972) and Nya enkla kläder (1975) are two books that were very popular in Europe and Japan.
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Pictures:
Teckningsmuseet, the chapter about Kerstin Lokrantz
