Copenhagen Fashion Week links with V&A's Fashion in Motion showcase
Copenhagen Fashion Week's (CPHFW) influence continues to reach far and wide even though it's not one of the 'big four' fashion weeks, and that influence means it also continues to forge partnerships beyond Denmark's borders. The latest is with London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
CPHFW and the V&A are collaborating for the V&A Fashion in Motion's May 2025 edition. The showcase will present five key emerging designers from Denmark 'celebrating the creativity, expressiveness and innovation that Copenhagen Fashion Week has come to pioneer'.
'As part of a concerted focus on strengthening its relationship with the UK creative and cultural industry,' CPHFW will on 30 May hold three showings at the V&A within the Raphael Court featuring the collections of five designers. Four of them are part of the CPHFW NEWTALENT programme, including Alectra Rothschild/Masculina, Berner Kühl, Bonnetje and Stamm. The other is the 2024 recipient of the Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize, Stem.
The V&A's Fashion in Motion series has a high international profile and has platformed key British and international designers to the public since 1999.
The five designers will present 'six key looks that embody their vision and encompass their dedication to creative craft and expression'.
CPHFW's CEO Cecilie Thorsmark highlighted the fact that the V&A is 'a cultural bedrock of the British creative industry, so being able to showcase rising talent from Denmark through the seminal activation of V&A Fashion In Motion is an exceptional opportunity. I hope we can paint a strong visual of the vast talent our small nation is cultivating, and build stronger bridges between our burgeoning creative industries.'
And Oriole Cullen, V&A senior curator, Fashion and Textiles added: 'Fashion in Motion gives us the opportunity to work with incredible practitioners from around the world.'
Meanwhile, CPHFW has announced the members of its Show & Presentation Committee for SS26 and they too underline its international reach. As well as local luminaries such as Allyson Shiffman, features editor of Vogue Scandinavia and Christian Hansen, creative director of Costume Denmark, it features a number of key international names.
They include Bruce Pask, senior editorial director at Neiman Marcus; Emily Chan, senior sustainability editor, British Vogue; Ida Petersson, founder of Good Eggs; Maud Pupato, buying director of Printemps; Sara Sozzani Maino, creative director of Fondazione Sozzani; and Tiffany Hsu, chief buying officer at Mytheresa, among others.
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