Fashion and Sauna themes featured on new Finnish Stamps

Date of Issue - 6 May 2009

Hi ! Here is a recent beautiful Miniature Sheet issued by postal administration of Finland that depicts all items of woman's interest. This very exclusive Miniature Sheet is a real delight for all women of the world as these feature feminine footwear, a handbag and outfit by famous designers. It’s all related with the latest fashion trend of today. This lovely Miniature sheet was issued on 6 May 2009 to mark the latest fashion trends. There is another nice Booklet of five stamps which was also issued on 6 May 2009 featuring Sauna atmosphere. The special feature of these stamps is that the Sauna stamps include microscopic scent capsules. When the stamps are rubbed, the capsules burst and spread a pleasing aroma of birch leaves. It’s really going to be very exclusive and wonderful booklet designed by great designers using the latest technique. Finnish Post has also issued five beautiful post paid Sauna postcards with the booklet.These are some magnificent and fascinating items from a very cool and beautiful country, Finland ! Hope you enjoy them !......This is all for today !.......Till Next Post......Have a Great Time !

Fashion - Some exclusive designs on Miniature Sheet

High heels and swaying hemlines! Minna Parikka is one of the top names among Finnish shoe designers. Her highly feminine footwear is now sold in ten countries, with the flagship store in Helsinki. Minna Parikka's red high heels appear on one of the stamps of the Fashion miniature sheet. They are accompanied by beautiful shoes by Julia Lundsten which are depicted on the next stamp. Lundsten’s stylish signature wooden heels have won the admiration even of the king of shoe designers, Manolo Blahnik, who has called them “divine” and “perfect”. The wooden-heeled pump shown on the stamp is made of fish skin. Lundsten’s creations are sold in Tokyo, London, New York and other great cities.

The miniature sheet features elegant accessories in the form of the Lumi handbag designed by Sanna Kantola. Sanna Kantola and Bruno Beaugrand founded the Lumbi brand in New York nine years ago, and today Lumi bags are sold in 25 countries.Fashion designer Jasmine Santanen lives and works in Paris. This spring she unveiled at the Paris fashion festival a luxurious open party outfit, which has now been immortalised on a stamp.

This year’s spring collection also includes an outfit designer by Tuomas Laitinen and his sister, artist Anna Laitinen, the rear view of which is shown on the Fashion miniature sheet. This angle was chosen because of the outfit’s amusing “penguin cut”. A collection by the Laitinens won shared first place in the prestigious French Hyères fashion design competition in France in 2006. Today the LAITINEN accessory brand is sold in France, Japan, Hong Kong and elsewhere. The woman in purple on the left-hand edge of the miniature sheet is a filler picture. Laura Laine produced the illustrations for the miniature sheet.

Booklet Sauna - five stamps

Sauna atmosphere! This is what is features on five stamps of this booklet. "The first stamp shows a moment before a sauna. The sun is going down, there's a fresh birch whisk in the bucket on the jetty, and soft towels await the bathers," as she describes the scene. The second stamp shows the bathers actually in the sauna, and the third stamp depicts an idyllic shoreline sauna in its natural setting. The fourth and fifth stamps show sauna atmosphere inside and out: a sauna whisk bathes in the sunlight on a log wall, and inside the sauna the sunshine lights up the bathing place through a window. The Sauna stamps include microscopic scent capsules. When the stamps are rubbed, the capsules burst and spread a pleasing aroma of birch leaves.

Five postage paid postcards with Sauna theme

Courtesy – Finnish Post