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Icelandic designer Ingibjorg Hanna Bjarnadottir is right at the heart of the country's burgeoning design scene. Hannah Booth talks to her about nature, raven clothes hangers and Alistair Darling's eyebrows
Icelandic politicians and business figures have been making headlines across the world since 'the crisis' - as it is known in Iceland - last October. What they might not have anticipated is becoming immortalised in a mirror.
But that's what young designer Ingibjorg Hanna Bjarnadottir has done: recreated the physical profiles of some of the biggest names to emerge from Iceland's economic meltdown in the form of wall mirrors. These include the country's new prime minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir; Eva Joly, who is investigating the crisis; investor Jon Asgeir Johannesson, whose retail empire includes, for now, House of Fraser and Debenhams - and even our very own Alistair Darling. 'His eyebrows and glasses create a wonderful profile,' she says of Britain's Chancellor.
'I'm not commenting on whether they are good or bad people,' says Ingibjorg Hanna (like all Icelanders, she is just known by her first name). 'I want people to ask themselves how they feel when they...