KRISTINE WATHNE

 Arve Møllevik realized that he wasn`t the crazy man when someone asked him if he used wear his ultratight jeans while he slept. After collecting for over 20 years and cultivated his fascination for 80’s clothing, his closet is stacked with over 100 pairs of jeans and unisex tights. The tighter, the better. Shooting wetlookphotos in the shower gives Møllevik an adrenalin rush, modelling or being a photographer himself. 

Jan Roger Elstad wanted to do something that no other men had done before him. He started collecting wedding dresses in 1991. Over 400 dresses are organized and stored in his pinkpainted basement after time eras, from 1877-2015. It all started when he came over a bunch of weddingdresses that was going to be thrown away. Elstad took care of the cultural treasure a wedding dress is instead of seeing them being thrown in the trash. 

Harald Haraldsen travels whenever he gets the chance. He has been to over 46 countries and travelled to Thailand for over 60 times. His living room is traditionally furnished from various continents and cultures, decorated with lightings, souvenirs and humorous elements. The biggest dominant area of the living room is his large thai temple that is placed in the middle of the room where he helds ceremonies and funerals. 

Karl-Erik Johansen is also known as the 50’s man. Johansen has devoted his entire life and home to his love for the 50’s era. He hates white walls and sterile interiors - you’ll never find mass produced furniture from IKEA in his apartment. By the age of 9, he started collecting LP ́s. As his collection and himself grew older and bigger, his mom got tired of seeing him spending all his weekly pocket moneys on lps and got him an ultimatum: to leave the nest or keep on collecting by himself. He moved by himself, with over 70.000 LP ́s organized in an own room dedicated to his collection. Johansen showed me his last LP scoops while he said with a big smile on his face: ”I don’t feel the need for a wife or having kids - this is my life - and I’m loving it”.

Maria Toftum became obsessed with royalty after princess Diana died in 1997. She immediately started collecting royality effects obsessively. When Princess Diana was still alive, Toftum had no interest in royalty at all. Toftum administrates 20 facebookgroups where she posts daily photos of varied dead royal persons shared with over 10.000 people in this closed facebookcommunity. 

Ole Elvis Andersen fascination for Elvis Presley grew bigger and bigger since he was 12 years old. Elvis are central to everything Ole Elvis does - in 1992 he got Elvis added as his middle name, as everybody he knew was calling him Elvis. Raised in a deeply religious family, he was told that the devil would take him to hell if he didn’t stop expressing his love for rock music. He chose Elvis, and rock and roll.