Copenhagen Fashion Week is fortunate enough to have the engaged promoter of young fashion design, Jan Busch Carlsen, among its fair owners. Consequently, Mr. Carlsen’s Designers’ Nest Award Show can present and celebrate newly graduates’ design from 10 Nordic design schools and attract international jury members to participate in the evaluation.
In a market driven industry, it is refreshing to experience the very young designers’ work and contributions. Probably their last “free” designs, before entering into fast-forward market conditions. Into an industry often in the hot-chair of the press, debating models’ BMI, and increasingly considering the environmental and impact of its products.
But the core of the matter still is: design.
This season’s Designers’ Nest show was as varied and uplifting as ever. Evening gowns with huge ornaments, sporty outfits, elegant dresses and very different approaches to shapes, sizes, and shades. Fashion creativity, before it hits commercial reality.
The Finnish menswear graduate, Rolf Ekroth from Aalto University, won the competition presenting two quite different styles, displaying abundant texture and fifty shades of gold, respectively. Love at first sight, was the verdict of the jury.
