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Copenhagen Cycle Chic

March 2, 2010 Bicycling & sport

As you’ve probably gathered by now, I adored being in Copenhagen. (Once I’d got over the shock of the £3.50 glass of Pepsi.) The beautiful city is packed full of interesting, creative people, the fashion & design is excellent and I felt warmly welcomed everywhere. I knew I was going to love it when I […]

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Hotel Review: First Hotel Skt. Petri, Copenhagen

February 24, 2010 Copenhagen FashionWk

Talk to any Dane in the fashion industry about Copenhagen’s hotels and they will shrug their shoulders and say that there isn’t anywhere really excellent. Then they will ask where you are staying and when you say Petri, they say of course, as if to stay anywhere else would be a redundant gesture. First Hotel […]

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Jewellery: Danish goldsmith Lene Vibe Dahlgren of Vibes

February 19, 2010 Copenhagen FashionWk

As I hunted for the Acne studio in Copenhagen (far too achingly hip to have anything as helpful as a door sign or number), I overshot and, as I peered intently at the next doorway, I realised I was looking into the windows of a jeweller. And what a jeweller. Lene Vibe Dahlgren, who sells […]

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Copenhagen Fashion Week: YDE & Georg Jensen Daisy collection

February 15, 2010 Copenhagen FashionWk

I was a little dubious when first told that Olé Yde was accessorising his AW/10 collection with Georg Jensen’s pretty Reversible Daisy collection, suspecting a designer collaboration born solely from fiscal necessity rather than any particular connection (see Swarovski ad infinitum). But I was proved wrong: The tumbling flowers and elegant chains worked beautifully with […]

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Copenhagen Fashion Week: Dansk vs.By Malene Birger afterparty

February 14, 2010 Copenhagen FashionWk

On Friday night around 2330hrs we headed to the Dansk vs. By Malene Birger afterparty at Jazzhouse. One of our number was an interior designer who had never the dubious pleasure of attending a fashion party. His eyebrows shot up in to his hairline when we entered the hot, sweaty, crepuscular bar. I think he […]

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Copenhagen Fashion Week: Acne studio

February 14, 2010 Copenhagen FashionWk

All I wish to say right now is that Swedish label Acne is in danger of disappearing up its own fundament & I bitterly regret having wasted a precious hour in visiting their studio, seemingly populated by monosyllabic poseurs who have turned froideur into a fine art. As I flicked through the rails and shoes, […]

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Copenhagen Fashion Week: Apparently it snows in Denmark too…

February 14, 2010 Copenhagen FashionWk

Of course I had failed to compute that there would be snow on the ground in Copenhagen. Sure, I knew the temperature would be below freezing, but somehow I had missed the reports of the abnormal massive snow storms that have left Copenhagen with foot high piles of snow along the kerbsides. Still, I managed […]

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Copenhagen: Sublime to the ridiculous…

February 13, 2010 Accessories

My foot in the front row of the YDE show wearing a delicious Bionda Castana navy blue suede zip back heel. My feet in Celtic Sheepskin Company boots later that afternoon trying to navigate the snowy paths around Copenhagen city centre.

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Copenhagen Fashion Week: YDE show

February 13, 2010 Copenhagen FashionWk

Ask an English fashion writer about Danish fashion, and their thoughts usually turn to the easy, sexy, chic, commercial-in-a-good-way labels like Day Birger et Mikkelson, Rutzou or By Marlene Birger. What we don’t normally associate with the Danish fashion industry is luxury and sophistication, both in the precision of cut and in the fabrics. Yet […]

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