Just as Denmark ranks high on the happiness index, so do the designs offered by Caro Editions, the nearly two-year-old brand founded by the Copenhagen power couple Caroline Bille Brahe and Frederik Bille Brahe. These clothes reflect the joy Caroline feels after many years of searching to find her place in the world after modeling … Read more
A connection to nature and the ability to find beauty in the quotidian is part of the Scandinavian ethos. In a voiceover on the soundtrack of her show, Emilie Helmstedt urged the audience to find treasure in the everyday. She certainly does that through her fashions, which depict organic forms such as clouds, mushrooms, and … Read more
After bringing us to her Copenhagen home last season with a show held on the charming cobbled street on which she lives, Stine Goya opted to give us insight into her work life this time around. She presented her fall 2024 collection inside the brand’s atelier. The designer commissioned British-born, Copenhagen-based artist David Risley to … Read more
Paolina Russo returned to Copenhagen Fashion Week for its sophomore show, after winning the inaugural Zalando Visionary Award last season. The London-based brand’s inclusion on the schedule is a reflection of the city’s growing global audience, along with its focus on sustainability. It makes sense then that design duo Paolina Russo and Lucile Guilmard are … Read more
When Nicolaj and Ditte Reffstrup took over at Ganni in 2009, the team consisted of five locals working from a small apartment. Back then, said Ditte on a walk-through, “everything was so new; in a way you’re so naive and that makes you very brave because you don’t know how crazy a world this is.” … Read more
In corporate culture (at least of yore) the first three months of employment is probationary. At Filippa K, Saint Laurent alum Liisa Kessler’s first three collections were the equivalent of corporate months, but the designer has clearly eased into her position and found her footing with her new collection for fall 2024, which feels confident … Read more