Swedish model Sara Eirud is styled by Amelianna Loiacono in ‘Quel Tocco Ribelle’, a fashion story lensed by Gautier Pellegrin [IG] on location at Arctic Bath for Vanity Fair Italia [IG] November 2025./ Makeup by Sara Eriksson

Arctic Bath [IG] is a floating hotel, situated on Lule river in the small village of Harads, just south of the Arctic Circle, in Swedish Lapland. The hotel lobby and communal area is designed to resemble a cluster of logs adrift on a river. The rounded structure actually floats on the Lule River during summer and freezes into its surface in winter.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Northern Lights are so close that it seems one could touch them. Reality is far different.

The Northern Lights begin at altitudes of about 50-60 miles (80 kilometers) and higher, while commercial planes typically fly below 13 miles (around 60,000 feet). The atmosphere at aurora altitudes is too thin to support conventional aircraft, but commercial flights do travel closeby and even adjust their flight plans to give fliers the maximum benefit of viewing this spectacular sky show almost always called breathtaking.