Nipples, Nail Varnish, and ABBA

There’s a specific kind of beautiful that makes you want to invent an elaborate spy scenario just to justify spending time near it. Filippa Smeds—Swedish model, red hair, a snub nose so perfect it should be classified—is exactly that kind. The fantasy involves Stockholm’s banking district, a basement, "Waterloo" playing somewhere in the background while I conduct a prolonged interrogation I have no actual questions prepared for.

She made a video for the fashion label Made By Noemi together with her boyfriend Olov, a man I resent on principle. The video isn’t much of anything in narrative terms—Filippa in underwear, red wine, someone painting her toenails, the occasional nipple making a brief editorial appearance. This is apparently what a normal day looks like for her. Being a redhead in Stockholm must be a full-time occupation.