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The Things We Carry - Søren Hedegaard
For more than four decades, Søren Hedegaard has worked with hair and makeup as his artistic language. Today, he is Creative Director at STUHR, where his journey began as an apprentice in 1976. Coming from five generations of hairdressers, craftsmanship has always been part of his story. For Søren, it is not simply about technique, but about seeing the person in front of him – finding the lines, forms and expressions that reveal individuality rather than disguise it. It is an approach that feels very close to Rebecca’s own.
Søren has always been drawn to the sea – its stillness, its power and the mystery of something constantly changing, yet always the same. “The silence becomes different by the sea,” he says. “Some things may just need to be felt. Others may be left a mystery.” Perhaps this is why he felt an immediate recognition in Rebecca’s universe: the organic forms, traces of nature and the sea, and the feeling that something can hold a meaning beyond what we see.
Fittingly, Søren’s own story with Rebecca’s jewellery began by the water. As a winter swimmer, he met Rebecca’s husband Peter on a bathing jetty, where an amulet around Peter’s neck caught his attention. “There was something almost archaic about it – as if it could have existed for centuries and yet felt completely contemporary. I just knew it meant something to me.” Today, Søren wears his own. “It has become my amulet of power. I like the idea that a small symbol, created by another person’s hands, can carry a sense of strength and protection.”
Different materials and different expressions, but at the heart of Søren and Rebecca’s worlds lies something shared: a belief in the hand behind what is created, in intuition, individuality and objects that carry a story. For Søren, his amulet has become more than jewellery – something people notice, ask about and connect with. A small entrance into his own story. “The most beautiful things we surround ourselves with don’t necessarily need an explanation. Sometimes we just need to feel that they mean something.”
