Copenagen Fashion Week

An amazing Copenhagen Fashion Week has come to an end. We look forward to welcoming you for Copenhagen Fashion Week SS13 in August 8-12, 2012.

Wella's lead stylist Marta Spizewska is blogging backstage at Copenhagen Fashion Week. Check out Marta's tips and tricks at copenhagenfashionfestival.com and get the look from the runways.

Go to tv.copenhagenfashionweek.com and view backstage footage, behind the scenes videos, fashion shows and interviews from Copenhagen Fashion Week AW12.

Check out all the fantastic runway photos from the first day of Copenhagen Fashion Week here. Wednesday's shows include YDE, Rützou and wackerhaus.

Max Factor's key makeup artist Mina Ingerslev guides you to get the look from the runways of Copenhagen Fashion Week AW12 including Kopenhagen Fur and Spon Diogo. Check it here.

Wish to see the latest trends from the runway at Copenhagen Fashion Week? Tune in to the public service channel DR K on your TV and see runway videos, interviews and much more from Copenhagen Fashion Week AW12. For more information click here.

This afternoon Kopenhagen Fur opened Copenhagen Fashion Week at City Hall with their innovative fur fashion show. Read a Q&A with Ruiyue Lui - one of the design talents that showed his collection for Kopenhagen Fur.

Download the Copenhagen Fashion Week App to your smartphone and get all the latest information from fashion week on the go! Check out more here.

Copenhagen Fashion Week is thrilled to welcome newcomers to the show schedule. Keep an eye on Scandinavian designers such as Samuji, Velour and Aniv von Borche. To see the full show schedule click here.

Now all fashionistas are invited to fashion week! Makeovers, shopping events, parties and exhibitions are just some of the things you can experience during Copenhagen Fashion Festival. For events open to all check out the full event schedule on copenhagenfashionfestival.com

Copenhagen Fashion Week has released a special Behind the Scenes video from the AW12 campaign photo shoot. The video includes beautiful make-up by Max Factor, amazing hair by Wella and gorgeous clothing from Scandinavian fashion designers. This time with model Pernille Møller from 2PM and fashion photographer of the year 2011 Noam Griegst behind the camera. Check it out here.

One again, Copenhagen Fashion Week will provide free transportation in a luxury bus for press only attending shows during fashion week.
Please note that the bus has take off and drop off every day from City Hall Square (Vester Voldgade).
Send an email to info@copenhagenfashionweek.com for requests regarding a VIP press card.

The trade fairs are offering free shuttle service between CPH Vision, Terminal-2, CIFF, Gallery for their visitors. Special KIDS shuttle will be available between CPH Kids and CIFFKIDS. No sign-up is required.
To learn more about the trade fairs click here.

Our new transportation partner Opel is providing Copenhagen Fashion Week with cool electric cars in February 2012. The new Opel Ampera has been elected Car of The Year 2012 in Denmark and we are looking forward to driving it! You can read more about the car here.

The Copenhagen Fashion Week AW12 show schedule is now online at copenhagenfashionweek.com with an outstanding amount of shows. The show schedule contains more than 40 shows and therefore sets a new record for fashion week in Copenhagen. Copenhagen Fashion Week is proud to announce that Day Birger et Mikkelsen and Sand are back on the runways in Copenhagen and will be showing their AW12 collection this February and there are exciting newcomers such as Gestuz and Velour.

The sprouting Danish models Juliane and Victor from Scoop Models have, besides walking the runways of Copenhagen Fashion Week, both had a fantastic year of 2011. Juliane was recently on the cover of Vogue Italia and is now to be seen in the Balenciaga campaign. In the meantime Victor has been the face of the Dior Homme campaign and film and has most recently walked the runway at the Versace for H&M show in NYC.

The Danish fashion magazine Costume has launched Costume Awards. Everyone can vote on their favourite nominees in categories such as "New designer of the year" and "Beauty product of the year". Vote for your fashion favourites at www.costume.dk

DHL and Copenhagen Fashion Week invites the Danish fashion industry to a custom seminar on November 24. For more information please send an e-mail to dhl@copenhagenfashionweek.com

Download the Copenhagen Fashion Week App to your smartphone and be one of the first ones to see the fashion show schedule for Copenhagen Fashion Week in February 2012. Check out more here.

Get inspired by key makeup-artist Mina ingerslev and learn some of the best kept secrets when doing your makeup. Go to www.makeuplab.dk and read more.

Wella has launched an exlusive competition in Sweden with amazing prices for one lucky winner. On stake is a trip to Copenhagen, two nights in a hotel, tickets to a Copenhagen Fashion Week show, a Stine Goya outfit and a styling make-over from Wella. The competition expires October 31, 2011. For more information, go to you local Wella retailer.

You can still make it to the fantastic Peter Jensen exhibition at Design Museum Denmark which runs until October 31, 2011. Jensen's Muses is a walk through his work qua five selected muses. For more information click here.

See the latest hair trends and get inspired by Wella at www.wella.dk. You can also try My Wella Planner which gives advices on products and how to do your hair at special occasions.

Are you also looking forward to the next Copenhagen Fashion Week? Mark your calendar from February 1-5, 2012 and stay updated at www.copenhagenfashionweek.com and www.copenhagenfashionfestival.com

Kopenhagen Fur has once again given the prestigious design award, The Golden Fur Pin, to three talented Danish design students. This year's winners are:
In the category Clothing: Tine Winther Rysgaard, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School Of Design
In the category Homewear: Charlotte Bodil Hermansen, Kolding School of Design
In the category Accessories: Marie Louise Udby Blicher, Kolding School of Design
The aim of the award is to give young talents the opportunity to work creatively with fur and to move the boundaries for how fur can be used in our everyday life, despite the fact that it's the most expensive material in the world.

Read more about the award here.

Be in style with the first Danish fashion stamps made by Soulland and By Malene Birger! Hurry to the post office and send a letter by snailmail to a dear friend.

Spon Diogo, Gaia or Christian Westphal? Who do you want to see on the runway at the next fashion week? Vote for your favourite at www.newtalentaward.dk and join the competition to win backstage makeup-kit from Max Factor. You can also "Like" Max Factor New Talent Award 2012 at Facebook and get daily updates.

To our Danish audience! Now you can easily read all the latest news from FashionForum.dk when you're on the go. Visit m.fashionforum.dk on your smartphone and add FashionForum to your home screen. Click here to read more.

Malgosia Bella is the perfect face for the new Max Factor make-up series. She is a true representative of what the series is all about - glamour, ellegance and class.
Malgosia Bella herself has expressed; "As a mother I need easy solutions and the Elixir makeup series gives me just that. I am very proud to be working with Max Factor. The whole spirit of glamour is very important to me and for women all around the globe, and that is something that can't ever fade"
The new Elixir series is all about offering women a multi-functional products that unites skincare with cosmetics. The result is an effective and intelligent makeup, that has a longlasting and preventive effect. While the 2-in-1 foundation nourishes the skin and covers signs of aging such as fine lines and wrinkles, the lipstics contains avocado-, shea-and aloebutter which gives the lips a softer and a smoother surface. The whole series will be in stores the 24th of October.

Hamish Bowles' cultural exploration began at Christian Frederik Hansen's Church of Our Lady, which he described as "a place to make the heart soar". Next stop was the oldest museum in Danmark, Thorvaldsens Museum, which was build to celebrate one of the most famous Danish artists, Bertel Thorvaldsen. Hamish Bowles referred to the museum as one of the most enchanting in the world. The first fashion show in Bowles schedule was the debutant Anne Sofie Madsen, who impressed the European editor at Large for Vogue, with her samurai warrior inspired collection. During his stay, he had the pleasure of attending the shows of Stine Goya, Soulland, By Malene Birger, Munthe plus Simonsen, Veronica B. Vallenes, Designers Remix, Astrid Andersen and last but not least Henrik Vibskov.
To get a better insight in danish design through the ages, Hamish Bowles visited the Georg Jensen workshop and archives where all the objects designed by the company since 1904 are at display. He also visited the Danish Museum of Art & Design where Peter Jensen held an exhibition about the muses that have inspired all of his collections, among them the Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut and the '30s Norwegian figure skater Sonja Henie.
He spent his last evening in Copenhagen in the company of the Danish supermodel Helena Christensen, who invited him to Freetown Christiania for dinner. Unfortunately the chefs of the restaurant were too stoned to cook so Helena and Hamish had to share the one course that made it out of the kitchen. According to Hamish Bowles it was the perfect Christiania experience.
Click here to read Hamish' own words about his Copenhagen Fashion Week experiences.

The Danish models Gertrud Hegelund and Josephine Skriver, both from Unique Models, walked their way through Copenhagen Fashion Week SS12. Both girls have very promising international careers; Gertrud has just done the new Louis Vuitton campaign shot by Steven Meisel while the website models.com has just proclaimed Josephine to be the most promising talent of this year.

Words by Didder Rønlund

The energy sparkled and dynamics took center stage during Copenhagen Fashion Week's SS 2012 season. The latter by one of Danish fashion's great players. Niels Mikkelsen, the CEO of IC Companys, participated in the week's activities with no red ink in sight, having had a turnover in 2010 of DKK 3 billion and profits of 280 million, figures projected to rise to DKK 3,9 billion this year in turnover and 320 million in earnings.

Not a word about crisis from this writer. Instead I'd like to offer loads of flowers to Uffe Buchard and Kim Grenaa, show architects with their leading peers abroad, staged the happiest CPH Vision show to date in Amaliehaven. But just to stay with the IC Companys family's good news, InWear-designer Lene Borgaard was awarded Guldknappen 2011. Lene received the button from the weekly magazine ALT for Damerne. Charlotte Lynggaard had designed it in pure gold, and both of these fashion events were topped only by Malene Birger's, which boasted more than a thousand celebs in Carlsberg's bottling halls. And yet again I return to our dynamic fashion family, for Messrs Niels Martinsen, who founded InWear in 1961 and later IC Companys, in which he still still serves as chairman of the board, and the aforementioned Niels chose to purchase By Malene Birger last year, thereby acquiring a large chunk of Danish fashion's wingspan in a nutshell. Way to go.

At City Hall, the Danish postal service Post Danmark introduced the first fashion stamps in history in a collaboration with Malene Birger and Soulland's Silas Adler. With more than 60,000 designers, buyers, fashion fans and press both international and local, City Hall served, as in years past, as a hospitable center and a broad forum, which mayor Pia Allerslev addressed.

"There is something almost devout about the stamp as a platform, as opposed to the emails sent these days. Almost like the motifs on currency bills. They also represent value in the same way," said the mayor, who together with her new mayor colleague Ayfer Baykal, who is equally interested in fashion, participated in as many shows as they could.

Ole Yde's idea of moving his classic, elegant collection with eye catching Georg Jensen jewellery in between classic, Danish furniture design in Bredgade was well-conceived, and 250 guests participated in the presentation. The showing proved that Yde is capable of sewing wedding dress dreams for DKK 130,000, construct sleeves and shoulders and ruffles with processing so fine it cannot be copied - one of the reasons why Crown Princess Mary pays him so much attention.

While Copenhagen Fashion Festival lived up to its reputation with an especially joyous and lively energy both indoors and out on the Copenhagen streets, on the big screens with their live projections of the runways, in the late-night champagne served in stores, and in street parties, rock and jazz, Peter Jensen flew in from London. Until October 31, he is exhibiting at Designmusem Danmark, and gave a presentation on his fashion designs and the muses that have inspired him - from aunt Jytte to Tonya Harding.

The most spectacular show of the many late nights saw the excitement over Henrik Vibskov shoot sky high over the grass outside Forum. A review follows, but shouldn't overshadow the fact that Henrik's richness of ideas and formidable talent have earned him the world's biggest design award, with a prize of a million Swedish kroner -the Torsten & Wanja Söderberg Prize, which is usually awarded to craftsmen and graphic design companies. Respect.

Perhaps it wasn't so surprising that it was the two outstanding designers Malene Birger and Henrik Vibskov that set Danish fashion's milestones, but it was worth gold for an industry facing a global economic storm.

See you again in February for another happy fashion week in wonderful Copenhagen.

Copenhagen Fashion Week SS12 was definitely a success and we are already looking forward to next fashion week in February 1-5. For more future fashion week dates, press here.

Get behind the scenes of Copenhagen Fashion Week. See some of the backstage pictures right here and feel the fashion atmosphere.

Are you looking for runway photos from Copenhagen Fashion Week? At our great press site you will be able to download all the beautiful photos from Copenhagen Fashion Week SS12 in high resolution.

It is a great pleasure for Sixt Car Rental Denmark to show their support for Copenhagen Fashion Week, by providing luxury cars for the comfortable and safe transportation of the many VIP's. This year Sixt Car Rental has added 100.000 BMW's to the worldwide fleet of vehicles, which ensures our customers the satisfaction of driving a super fashionable car.

Snailmail has never been more chic! For the first time ever, Denmark's postal service, Post Danmark, has solicited special stamps to celebrate Danish fashion. The two designers behind the new stamps, unveiled Tuesday Aug 4, are Malene Birger and Soulland's Silas Adler. Swing by By the Malene Birger store in Antoniagade to buy the stamps and send a special greeting to your loved ones.

For the first time ever! Get the latest footage from the Copenhagen Fashion Week runways at the Kongens Nytorv metro station! See the designer visions of Spring/ Summer 2012 projected on the station platform when you're on the go to the next fashion show, or get a new excuse to linger in the underground...

The Danish designer Anne Sofie Madsen opened Copenhagen Fashion Week with an incredible show. Anne Sofie Madsen was sponsored by DHL, the "Preferred Logistics Partner of Copenhagen Fashion Week". As a part of our cooperation DHL offers a great deal to all participating companies during fashion week, which will be presented after fashion week.

Backstage secrets, beauty contests and expert advice only a click away.
Go visit the new beauty blog makeuplab.dk.

Spon Diogo, Christian Westphal and Gaia. Max Factor has now revealed the nominees for New Talent Award 2012. The designers are all in the run for the prestigious titled and a sponsored show worth DKK 150.000 in February. Read more and vote on www.newtalentaward.dk.

Nothing less than 11 Scandinavian and promising designers such as Anne Sofie Madsen, Dennis Lyngsø and Helje Hamre are having their show debut at Copenhagen Fashion Week! You can see them all right here.

Get behind the scenes of the shoot for the campaign photos for Copenhagen Fashion Week SS12. We are proud to present the stunning Danish model, Gertrud Hegelund, as the face of Copenhagen Fashion Week. She is taking the world by storm at the moment, so keep an eye out for the gorgeous Dane. Click here to watch the movie.

We are proud to announce that DHL has become "Preferred logistics partner Of Copenhagen Fashion Week". DHL sponsors several fashion weeks around the globe and looks forward to sponsor Copenhagen Fashion Week - the Fashion Capital of Scandinavia. As part of our partnership DHL will be supporting the new generation of Danish fashion. This season DHL will show their support by sponsoring Anne Sofie Madsen and thereby securing new talent on the runways of Copenhagen Fashion Week.
DHL Campaign Video SS12

Make sure to like the official Copenhagen Fashion Week Facebook page. You can find us by clicking here.

Registered press can now request show invitations for Copenhagen Fashion Week SS12. If you are not already applied for online accreditation you can register here.

The show schedule for Copenhagen Fashion Week will be uploaded in the beginning of next week. In the meantime feel free to check out the other schedules.

The world renowned makeup company Max Factor has just launched their latest product for fashionable and kiss-proof summer lips. The new "Lipfinity Lip Tint" is an innovative colourpen with a professional tip applicator for easy and precise application.

For the fourth consecutive year on June 1, 2011 the prestigious galla event DANSK Fashion Awards will be held at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen in order to hand over 16 coveted statuettes to the creative talents of the fashion industry.

You can vote for your fashion-favorites on www.danskfashionawards.com from April 4, 2011. The nominees will be announced May 1, 2011.

www.danskfashionawards.com

Now it is getting easier for the press to download runway images and videos from Copenhagen Fashion Week.

In collaboration with Kontainer Copenhagen Fashion Week has launched a new and improved website to serve the press in the best way possible with press info and image/video archive at a professional level. With the press access to the website press.copenhagenfashionweek.com you are secured the best updates and high resolution visual coverage of Copenhagen Fashion Week.

Please register at press.copenhagenfashionweek.com.

Words by Didder Rønlund

Copenhagen Fashion Week A/W2011 started off with a blast of a gala show at Ecco's award dinner at Copenhagen City Hall.

CEO Dieter Casprzak, the son-in-law of Karl Toosbuy, the man who began this Danish shoe fairy tale, the third-largest in the world today, has preserved his family dynasty's respect for social responsibility and Walk Easy design. And who doesn't own a pair of Ecco's? They can be purchased in 900 stores worldwide, with 28 in China, which includes 11 of the Tønder shoemaker's shopping paradises aptly situated in Hong Kong!

Beauty guru Ole Henriksen flew in from L.A. to assume the podium as show master, and "he loved it, he loved it, he loved it" - and sure did he have reason to love, with the event standing out as that fashion day's finest.

Kim Grenaa's direction with Femmes Regionales, Mikkel Kure and Simon Rasmussen's oversized body hiders - seen as bombs of humor with an artsy edge - allowed gorgeous girl legs to steal the runway in shoes and fur-lined boots. Show piece stilettos from Southern Jutland with black rooster feather ankle straps got the fashionistas out of their seats - and don't worry, stilettos will be found in shelves again this autumn, though unfortunately without feathers. The award's prize money of DKK 250,000 went to the lovely Renee Toft Simonsen, super model and author, who immediately donated the sum to the cause of educating African women.

Looking back, I haven't ever seen a nicer presentation of shoes in New York, London, or Paris. And speaking of City Hall, the fashion days left their mark on locations ranging from the four fair halls over the Central Station to Carlsberg and Hotel d'Angleterre, where designer collections were viewed eagerly by politicians, buyers, international press, and celebrities. I had the pleasure of meeting Brian Mikkelsen, Denmark's Minister of Economic and Business Affairs, with his wife Eliane, who also took the opportunity to drop by along with her daughter. I was also pleased to meet Copenhagen's Lord Mayor, Frank Jensen, and its Mayor for Culture, Pia Allerslev, and many others whose interest gave the fashion people sincere pats on the shoulder.

The serial drama about fashion models' Body Mass Index led to some bumps in the road, as it has ever since England's Twiggy appeared on the podium at age 14 at Yves Saint Laurent's couture debut in Rue Spontini in Paris: Flat as an ironing board, she had young girls from many different countries half-starve to death as far back as the 60s. I recollect no attacks at Yves Saint Laurent, but also, I must ask today - where are the parents? Those girls are just so young.

The cheers, on the other hand, were loud, when news concerning Denmark's struggling export figures came out that the aggregate sales of Danish products and services to other countries has taken a giant 19.7 % leap since the crisis year of 2009. That has happened while the world economy has made a considerable comeback, making for a surprisingly positive 2010. Danish exports, with the fashion industry as the number four sector, has reached a per capita average of DKK 175,000 (source: Statistics Denmark). Probably the highest in the world, out-exporting Sweden's per capita average of DKK 168,000.

See you again in August for a happy new fashion week in wonderful Copenhagen!

Tonight at 21.00 Baum und Pferdgarten's show is livestreamed at baumundpferdgarten.com. Baum und Pferdgarten has been absent from the schedule for a period of time, but this season they are back - and you don't need an invitation.

Copenhagen Fashion Week AW11 has begun!

This season, the week was kicked off with the official opening show by our principal sponsor Kopenhagen Fur, which has supported a league of international designers unveilling a stunning diversity of fur fashion. Click here to see todays show photos or download them in high resolution at the new press site, press.copenhagenfashionweek.com.

Copenhagen Fashion Week is in cooperation with Kontainer launching a new and improved press site and image/video archive, wherefrom registered press can download high resolution runway images and broadcast quality show videos. Please register at press.copenhagenfashionweek.com.