Frida Gustavsson (born 6 June 1993) is a Swedish model and actress.

Career

Gustavsson was discovered at an

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when she was 12 years old. She began modeling locally in 2008, and in the same year she moved to Japan to pursue modelling. She opened the Valentino Haute Couture fall 2012 show in Paris. Since then, she has walked shows for

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Calvin Klein Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, he also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and ...

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, Celine,

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, Yves Saint Laurent,

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, and

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. She also walked in the

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. Gustavsson is also the new face of

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, she was going to work for them in ads and commercials in the late 2013. She was the fourth most requested model of the spring 2010 season, behind

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, Liu Wen, and

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. Gustavsson has been in the magazines ''

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'', American, Italian, French, British, German and Japanese ''

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L'Officiel ''L'Officiel'' () is a French fashion magazine with a USA edition. It has been published in Paris since 1921 and targets upper-income, educated women aged from 25 to 49. In 2006, it had a circulation of 101,719. A men's edition of ''L'Officiel'', ' ...

'', ''Crash'', and others. In March 2010, she appeared on the cover of the German ''Vogue''. She has appeared in advertising campaigns for

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, H&M,

Max Mara Max Mara (Italian aks 'ma:ra is an Italian fashion business. It markets up-market ready-to-wear clothing. It was established in 1951 in Reggio Emilia by Achille Maramotti (7 January 1927 – 12 January 2005). In March 2008, the company had 2,2 ...

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and

Prada Prada S.p.A. (, ; ) is an Italian luxury fashion house founded in 1913 in Milan by Mario Prada. It specializes in leather handbags, travel accessories, shoes, ready-to-wear, and other fashion accessories. Prada licenses its name and branding t ...

. Gustavsson won ''Elle'' Sweden's Model of the Year award in 2011. She appears in adverts for Nina Ricci. After five years of break, she was walked for Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring 2020 Show. Most recently, she stars as the great Viking warrior Freydis Eriksdotter in the new series "Vikings: Valhalla" directed by Jeb Stuart, airing on Netflix.

Personal life

In June 2011, Gustavsson graduated from St Martins Gymnasium in

Sundbyberg Sundbyberg Municipality (''Sundbybergs kommun'' or ''Sundbybergs stad'') is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden, just north of the capital Stockholm. Sundbyberg is wholly within the Stockholm urban area and has a 100% urban p ...

, Sweden. She hopes to become a fashion stylist and is interested in pattern and product design. Gustavsson married photographer Hjalmar Rechlin on 30 May 2015 in Sweden. They quietly divorced in 2017. In June 2018 she was reported to be dating Marcel Engdahl. They got married in 2022.

Filmography

Television

References

External links

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