Scan Magazine | Design | Copenhagen Fashion Week
Freya Dalsjö
Whiite
Ole Yde
Copenhagen Fashion Week SS2013 highlights The City Hall was off limits to the fashion crowd this season. The official Copenhagen Fashion Week venue was relocated from the beautiful National Romantic style building in the heart of the city to an old Carlsberg brewery on the outskirts of town, for one season only. The barren factory interior of the new venue, TAP 2, provided the perfect stage for some labels to showcase their spring/summer 2013 wares, but not for all scheduled to show there. By Ian Morales | Photos: Copenhagen Fashion Week®
Twenty-two-year-old newcomer Freya Dalsjö was chosen to officially open Copenhagen Fashion Week at TAP 2. There had been a lot of buzz surrounding the young graduate from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and her second collection at CFW did not disappoint. Sculptured jackets with broad shoulders, high-waisted trousers, pleated leather skirts and stylish cutaway visors evoked a sporty Balenciaga vibe. Danish top models Josephine Skriver and Caroline Brasch Nielsen opened and closed the show, an indication of how far this emerging talent is expected to go.
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Whiite was the surprise of fashion week. The venue description, a parking lot in east Copenhagen, offered little incentive to travel across town to see a high street brand parade on striped asphalt. But those who did attend were ushered into a beautifully lit underground garage with a cool ambience. Design director Frederikke Hviid’s collection featured feminine styling and classic tailoring with a palette of soft hues of aqua blue, mint green, peach, yellow and brown. Ole Yde presented his SS2013 collection in a secret courtyard a few yards away from the Amalienborg Palace. A convenient
venue for Princess Marie who did not have to go far to find her seat on the front row. The couturier’s silk chiffon and crepe dresses displayed no shortage of colour, ranging from black to coral, amethyst and yellow - with big and small floral prints. The collection was accompanied by vintage Georg Jensen sterling silver jewellery from the silversmith’s archive. A Henrik Vibskov show always guarantees two things: a mesmerising spectacle and a crowd. For his SS2013 collection, the Danish avant-garde designer opened his show entitled The Transparent Tongue by inflating a giant three-metre high pink tongue with black taste buds in front of a large audience gathered in the courtyard of the Charlottenborg Art Gallery in Nyhavn. Models then walked around the pink tongue wearing a collection featuring colour block tailoring, Masai motifs and polka dot patterns. Some attendees described the show as “crazy”. They will have missed the references to oral clean-