Per Holknekt Explained

Per Holknekt
Birth Date:27 April 1960
Birth Place:Falun, Sweden
Occupation:Fashion designer
Known For:Odd Molly, Svea
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    Children:1

    Per Olof Holknekt, (born 27 April 1960) is a Swedish fashion designer and entrepreneur.[1] He is also the founder of several magazines and companies, the most successful of which is the clothing company Odd Molly.[2]

    Life and career

    Holknekt grew up in Falun, Dalarna. His father was a police officer and his mother was a school principal. He moved to Hermosa Beach, California, in 1980, and for several years was a professional skateboarder, winning several international competitions.[3] [4] In 1984, while in California, he founded the skateboarding magazine Transworld Skateboarding. He returned to Sweden in 1984 and studied economics at IHM Business School, after which he started the skateboard company Street Style with his brother Thomas.[5] Later, he founded another skateboard company, Svea, which launched a skateboard brand and a clothing label.[6] [7]

    Holknekt developed alcoholism, and went through a life crisis in 2000, during which he lost everything, became homeless, and supported himself by selling the Stockholm street newspaper Situation Sthlm.[8] He sought treatment for his addiction and regained sobriety.[9] After four months of being sober he successfully applied to become a housemate on the first season of the Swedish Big Brother series, in which he finished in second place after being voted off in the final on Day 74.[10] The show was broadcast on Kanal 5.[11]

    In 2002, Holknekt started working with fashion designer Karin Jimfelt-Ghatan, and together they started the international clothing company Odd Molly.[6] [12] In 2010 the two were named "Founders of the Year" at Sweden's annual entrepreneurial gala Entreprenörsgalan.[13] [14] In 2013 Holknekt revealed that he would leave Odd Molly after twelve years to start working as a branding consultant for different brands.[15]

    On 19 June 2012, the first edition of Holknekt's magazine Miss World was published.[16] He was the chief editor, but only two issues were published before it was discontinued.[17]

    Holknekt was one of the hosts of the Sveriges Radio show Sommar in 2010.[18] In 2014 Holknekt published his autobiography, Per Holknekt 1960–2014, co-written by Markus Lutteman.[19] [20]

    Holknekt is also a successful pinball player, and has participated in national, European, and world championships hosted by the Professional Amateur Pinball Association.[21] [22] [23]

    In 2016, Holknekt was arrested and fined for drunk driving and speeding on his motorboat by the Coast Guard. He was fined 30,000 SEK [24]

    Personal life

    Holknekt was married to an American woman for three years during his time in California.[25] After returning to Sweden he became involved with a woman with whom he had a daughter in the 1990s. In 2000, during his participation in Big Brother, he met singer Viktoria Tolstoy, and the couple were married in 2001. They divorced in March 2008.[26] He later married singer Lena Philipsson in 2010, but they were divorced in July 2013.[25] [27] In June 2015, Holknekt announced he had once again fallen in love, this time with 36-year-old fashion photographer Anna Lundell.[28]

    Further reading

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Per Holknekt. Talarforum i Skandinavien AB. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    2. Web site: Per Holknekt till Content Day. Dagens Media. 20 June 2015. Swedish. 23 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150923222857/http://www.dagensmedia.se/nyheter/contentmarketing/article3856671.ece. dead.
    3. Book: Per. Holknekt. Markus. Lutteman. Per Holknekt 1960–2014. Norstedts förlag. 2014 . 9789113061221. Swedish.
    4. Web site: Affarsliv . Affarsliv . 20 June 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150620211556/http://www.affarsliv.com/?articleid=5836666&date=&menuids= . 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    5. Web site: Skateboard Museum Sweden. Skateboardmuseum.se. 20 June 2015. Swedish. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212826/http://www.skateboardmuseum.se/streetstyle.html. 3 March 2016. dmy-all.
    6. Web site: Nu ger Per Holknekt bort sin förmögenhet. Expressen. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    7. News: Från uteliggare till innedesigner. Dagens Nyheter. 9 March 2008. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    8. Web site: Om man ger får man tillbaka. helahalsingland.se. 13 February 2015. 20 June 2015. Swedish. 21 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150621011600/http://www.helahalsingland.se/halsingland/soderhamn/om-man-ger-far-man-tillbaka. dead.
    9. Web site: Per Holknekt lämnade en miljon kr i skogen. Expressen. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    10. News: Från uteliggare till innedesigner. Dagens Nyheter. 9 March 2008. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    11. Web site: Nu börjar "Big Brother" . Aftonbladet. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    12. Web site: Per Holknekt om sitt liv efter Odd Molly. Expressen. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    13. Web site: Vinnarna – de är Sveriges främsta entreprenörer. MyNewsDesk. 7 October 2010. 21 June 2015 . Swedish.
    14. Web site: Besökare. Impression2015. 20 June 2015. Swedish. 6 March 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160306013922/http://www.impression2015.se/57-besokare. dead.
    15. Web site: Holknekt blir varumärkeskonsult. Resumé. 20 June 2015. Swedish. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141006235536/http://www.resume.se/nyheter/reklam/2013/12/11/holknekt-blir-varumarkeskonsult/. 6 October 2014. dmy-all.
    16. Web site: Per Holknekt startar 'Miss World' . Resumé . 20 June 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006072716/http://www.resume.se/nyheter/media/2012/06/03/per-holknekt-startar-miss-world/ . 6 October 2014 . Swedish.
    17. Web site: Miss World trycker på paus . Resumé . 20 June 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141007031807/http://www.resume.se/nyheter/media/2012/10/10/miss-world-trycker-pa-paus/ . 7 October 2014 . Swedish.
    18. Web site: Per Holknekt. Sveriges Radio. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    19. Web site: Per Holknekt: 'Suget har inte kommit än'. Expressen. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    20. Web site: Jag kan inte chansa en gång till. Dagens Nyheter. 28 August 2014. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    21. Web site: Boktisdag: 54-åringen som lämnade sin Aston Martin på gatan och försvann. King. 20 June 2015. Swedish. 20 June 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150620212206/http://www.kingmagazine.se/bloggar/kulturkrock/20150113/boktisdag-54-aringen-som-lamnade-sin-aston-martin-pa-ga. dead.
    22. Web site: Flipper-SM 2014. 20 June 2015. Swedish. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110925181726/http://www.flippersm.se/?s=2010. 25 September 2011. dmy-all.
    23. Web site: Per Holknekt – med rätt att flippa ut. Expressen. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    24. News: Per Holknekt dömd för sjöfylleri. Aftonbladet. 2017-05-05.
    25. Web site: Per Holknekt om otroheten. Aftonbladet. 27 August 2014 . 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    26. Web site: Per Holknekt och Viktoria Tolstoy skiljer sig. Expressen. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    27. Web site: Lena Ph och Per Holknekt skiljer sig. Expressen. 20 June 2015 . Swedish.
    28. Web site: Hon är Per Holknekts nya kärlek . Linn . Elmervik. Aftonbladet. 11 June 2015. 21 June 2015 . Swedish.