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Icelandic model Kolfinna Kristófersdóttir received the highest number of votes in an online poll at the leading web publication Style.com, earning the title of best runway model during London Fashion Week, rúv.is reports.
Kolfinna received 42 percent of the vote defeating veterans such as Shalom Harlow and Alana Zimmer.
Last year, Kolfinna came in second in Iceland's Ford modeling contest and has been successful in the modeling world ever since. Icelandic modeling agency Eskimo Models was the first one to sign her but last year, she landed a contract with Next, one of Britain’s top modeling agencies.
Over the last few weeks, Kolfinna has been featured prominently at fashion weeks around the world. In New York, she walked exclusively for Marc Jacobs and in Milan, she walked for Versace, Pucci and Marni to name a few.
Click here for Italian Vogue’s interview with Kolfinna.
Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson attended an annual consultative meeting last weekend with colleagues from the Nordic and several African countries, as announced in a press release from the Minstry of Foreign Affairs.
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From many salmon rivers anglers are reporting great opening days. Reykjavík Citizen of the year caught the first salmn in Ellidaár in Reykjavík this morning.
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The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved new names for nine craters on Mercury including one for Icelandic littereture Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness.
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A petition urging the government to reconsider a proposed bill, in which the terms of the law requiring fishing companies to pay a tariff for their use of Iceland’s fishing resources are to be changed, has been signed by more than 11,000 people.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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