Efva Katarina Attling, (born 18 February 1952) is a Swedish

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and

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Early career

In the early 1980s, she played in the band "X Models" and released the hit single ''Två av oss'' ("Two of us"). She worked as a professional model for twelve years after being spotted by

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. She was also noted for being one of Sweden's best professional disco dancers.

Silversmith and jewellery designer

Attling designed for

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and H&M and in the mid-1990s she started her own line of jewellery. Her pendant "Homo Sapiens" was worn by

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in 1999, and

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is also known to wear her jewellery. She has stores in Sweden, Norway, Finland and New York. The estimated turnover for her company was SEK 100 million in 2011.

Personal life

Attling was married to pop singer/writer

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, with whom she has two children, from 1985 to 1995. She entered a

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with Swedish pop singer

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in 1996. They were married in 2009 after Sweden passed its gender neutral marriage law.

Awards

Attling has received a medal from the Royal Swedish Patriotic Society in April 2011 for distinguishing herself as an internationally known jewellery designer.

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