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Jewellery in fashion

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The roof garden of the Royal Danish Academy of Music on a warm summer morning offered the perfect scenery for a stylish jewellery show. Presenting a selection counting some of the best Danish jewellery designers, the variety of Danish jewellery was clearly illustrated. Charlotte Lynggaard from Ole Lynggaard Copenhagen showed her mastering of details and […]

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First steps and extensive experience

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When watching a number of fashions shows within only a couple of days, it become very clear how vast the possibilities for interpretation of the times and trends really are. At best the possibilities seem endless. The route from fashion with a broader and consequently more commercial reach to fashion from graduates is an interesting […]

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From deconstruction to strong construction

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The opening of the Copenhagen Fashion Week with the show from designer Barbara i Gongini signalled an artistic focus in an otherwise commercial fashion nation. The Fashion Week’s aim to draw attention to brands specializing in niche markets with their creative designs made an impression. Barbara i Gongini’s SS15 collection was as black as always, […]

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Cosmopolitan aesthetics and artistic invitation

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Two young designers made distinct impressions during the Copenhagen Fashion Week. Mark Kenly Domino Tan. The brand and designer name indicate international perspectives, and the styles presented by the young designer in Copenhagen were truly cosmopolitan. Right from the very first styles, the appeal was to a confident woman with a strong sense of aesthetics. […]

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The future of Danish fashion

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Variety is the spice of life. The well-know quotation now dates 229 years back. This week we were reminded of the rich experience variety offers, when the three Danish design and fashion schools joined forces at their common graduate show at the old stock exchange in Copenhagen. The venue added a historic perspective to the […]

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Danish luxury

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At the recent ELLE Style Awards in Copenhagen I had the fortune to be seated next to the Danish goldsmith and jewellery designer Charlotte Lynggaard during dinner. As the daughter of the iconic Ole Lynggaard one could easily get the idea, that she had always had the aim of becoming a her father’s partner and […]

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Seoul Fashion Week

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In recent times Italy has been looking with interest and admiration to the so called ‘Miracle on the Han river’: an unparalleled growth that South Korea has been witnessing in the last decades. It is not surprising that Korean fashion is under examination as well. Twice a year, Seoul and in particular the Dongdaemun Design […]

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Copenhagen co-creation

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In just four weeks the Danish textile designer, Margrethe Odgaard, the iconic lamb company Le Klint and the textile company Georg Jensen Damask created an unusual pop-up exhibition when invited by the Designmuseum Denmark in Copenhagen. The remarkable and cohesive result demonstrates how classic designs acquire new expressions when new angles and themes are introduced. […]

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Milan Fashion Week

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With an economical recession affecting markets and feelings, a certain taste of nostalgia and melancholia may arise looking at the second collection designed by Alessandra Facchinetti for Tod’s. A celebration of an Italian bourgeois class of other times, the ostentation of the real made in Italy as it was, and as it no longer is, designed […]

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Behind the catwalks

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For the first time The Minsk Herald opens its space to put Eastern Europe on the spotlight of the fashion industry’s most promising hubs when it comes to creativity, business opportunities and a vast option of happenings regarding fashion and style. Eastern Europe and its cultural diversity undoubtedly gather a plurality of ideas, languages and […]

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The future of fur

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Copenhagen Fashion Week opened on the 28th January with a stylish Kopenhagen Fur show in the City Hall. Parading innovative designs created in cooperation with younger Danish and Chinese designers the traditional fur scene received at refreshing boost under the title East West Fusion. The Danish Designer Anne Sofie Madsen mixed styles and materials into […]

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David Andersen

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Designer David Andersen’s show presenting his AW14 collection was state of the art in cool Nordic nights. His collaboration with the Danish carpet producer EGE introduced new and spectacular carpet design both for the square catwalk covering half the city hall in Copenhagen, but also manifest in the four dresses exhibited at the entrance. Innovative […]

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Tomohiro Sato at Pop Up Design Gallery

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It comes from Japan, passing through Trieste the protagonist of the latest exhibition at the Pop Up Design Gallery. Tomohiro Sato, winner of the fashion special prize at International Talent Support shares with the milanese audience his poetic collection inspired by his grandfather. The sophisticated set up of the exhibition brings the visitor to the […]

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ITS Fashion Show 2013

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The works of the finalists of the year 2013 ITS FASHION – The winners: FASHION COLLECTION OF THE YEAR € 15,000 + return at ITS 2014 in the jury & presentation of new collection, offered by EVEHan Chul Lee DIESEL AWARD € 25,000 that the winner can use, without limitations, to promote their work in […]

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The cARTeL Launch – Dubai

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February 27, marked the launch of Dubai’s alternative shopping destination & experience – cARTeL. Giving over 30 international fashion designers the chance to showcase their exclusive items in a complex architectural space. These designers are curated from all over the world and are known for their unique one-of-a-kind fashion pieces and avant-garde clothing. Also dubbed as […]

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What about gloves?

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What about them, other than being one of the most distinct, fabulous and useful accessory? Yes ladies and gentlemen, let’s keep our hands fashionably warm this Christmas. A piece of history that stays, indifferent to the passing time; a dash of the past, still present in Chiado. And because gloves never go out of style, […]

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