Astrid Andersen, Peter Jensen Make Their Copenhagen Vogue Week Debut

COPENHAGEN — Who thought the day would come that the Danes would tire of the blazer?

On the spring 2025 version of Copenhagen Vogue Week, designers regarded past a pointy tailor-made shoulder and beige colour palettes — though just a few remained for many who can’t let go of matching their morning drinks with their wardrobes.

Right here, the main traits that emerged within the Danish capital.

Forces of Nature

OpéraSport’s design duo Stephanie Gundelach and Awa Malina Stelter regarded to nature and set their present exterior the Copenhagen Opera Home alongside the water.

“This assortment was impressed by the enchanting Exillion backyard, a hidden gem north of Copenhagen. This personal backyard is a testomony to the harmonious mix of nature’s magnificence and architectural magnificence,” stated Stelter.

The duo despatched out a military of fashions going through the robust contemporary wind in purple silky over-the-knee skirts; plain black attire with ruffled detailing, and swimwear within the model’s signature colour combo of child blue and black, match for dipping into the water after the present.

One other duo, Rotate’s designers Jeanette Madsen and Thora Valdimarsdottir, additionally turned to all issues inexperienced with a sublime present on the Royal Library Backyard.

They have been impressed by the Twenties, however not flapper women and feather boas. As an alternative, there have been black fringe attire; silk and lace attire, and attire that imitated folding screens, leaving what’s underneath to the viewers’s creativeness.

There’s all the time a nod to weddings within the Rotate collections and it’s a intelligent transfer on behalf of the duo as a result of they know their model is shopped by each brides-to-be and get together women.

“We needed to create the final word temper of summer season, the heat, lightness, freedom and romance of the season,” stated Madsen in regards to the smooth, floral prints that appeared all through the gathering.

Residence Candy Residence

After greater than 27 years of dwelling and dealing overseas, Danish designer Peter Jensen returned dwelling to current his new model, Yours Actually.

“It’s extra a platform for artists to work with me or themselves or a accomplice. That is extra like a undertaking [rather] than promoting a group,” stated the designer, who labored with London-based photographer Annie Collinge, artist Julie Verhoeven and stylist Jacob Ok.

The presentation was a celebration of individuality and expression — a refreshing concept for a model beginning out in Copenhagen contemplating town’s robust affiliation with becoming inside a field.

Jensen forged girls over the age of 45 and put them in layered tulle attire; floral smock attire; capes that touched the ground, and footwear that’s something however unusual in metallic silver and clunky architectural shapes.

The ladies had as a lot enjoyable carrying the garments because the designer had making them — each danced collectively in the course of the presentation.

Astrid Andersen, the Danish designer who was a daily identify on the London Vogue Week calendar pre-pandemic, picked Copenhagen Vogue Week to debut her new model, Stel.

She’s been engaged on the model full time for greater than a 12 months and it’s a departure from her kitschy streetwear designs that she beforehand confirmed in London.

Andersen has grown up and so have the garments — her designs are actually about operate and longevity relatively than avenue credibility. 

“Discovering the appropriate poplin material for the shirts turned out to be the most important quest of all,” she stated, pointing to the number of the easy-to-wear shirts in traditional blue stripes and stable colours.

To mark the model’s launch, Andersen went to idea retailer Storm for a retail partnership, which can inventory her items that begin from 89 euros for a T-shirt and simply over 500 euros for a coat.

The designer, who was closely concerned with the music scene underneath her earlier label, hasn’t let her connections go. She had American rapper and songwriter A$AP Nast type the gathering.