Copenhagen Fashion Week day one: sliding dresses and tailoring off the center are key

Copenhagen fashion week began on Monday and in its usual way, the approach focused directly on sustainability and style.

Deadstock Fabrics and Natural Fibers had a leading role, but the limits of sustainability did not seem to limit the imagination of designers.

Opérasport, established in the capital of Denmark by Stephanie Gundlach and Awa Malina Steter, opened the official presentation/presentation program of the SS26. Integrating classic and contemporary styles with the sports edge of Copenhagen, it focused on easy and sliding dresses with the top of the bikini a key piece for the dressing of the city and vacations. Printed or applied flowers were also important in a low -profile blues palette, black, white and mint green.

Freya Dalsjø returned after several years of the track with an SS26 offer made of Deadstock. The Copenhagen -based label designed by Freya Dalsjø, Karis Dalsjø and Mikkel Schou specializes in intricate crafts and works only with 'natural' materials such as Lana, Kashmir, silk, leather and silver. The general appearance felt neutral in the season with spring gray woollens sculpted in silent coats and luxury robe. In fact, the combo of easy tunic pants outside the center was everywhere, just like the one -shoulder dress.

White and creamy brown continued the neutral-natural edge, but the leather worked in multiple ways highlighted the ship in the heart of the label. For example, an intricate leather technique developed by the label saw the material cut and rolled into thin strings that are then sewn finely. The strings are cut in several lengths and the ends are colored and knotted on a base. This is as far from fast fashion as possible.

As with Opérasport, the applied florals also appeared in Bonnetje (returning for the second time as part of Cphfw Newtalent), here seen in a simple sliding dress with a creamy pure neutral. And the sliding dress of the statement was a large part of the collection, whether color bicol and asymmetric with hi-lo hits, or cut into heavier light materials with raw and intricate seams. But tailoring was also fundamental. The label specializes in re -assembling the old costumes in new silhouettes. So think about the men's suit with a sexier advantage, the spacious Blazer being the star piece.

The Forza collective with a collection founder, Kristoffer Kongshaug was also interesting, said it is the result of more than 14 years of experience when working with smaller and large corporations in Paris and New York, including RAF Simons, Christian Dior Couture, Balmain, Lanvin and Theory. It is a “vision and a style instead of fashion or trends.”

But the trends were not difficult to find with the mixture of tailoring and softness of the season (yes, the sliding dress again) on display. Here that slip was the star piece, cutly cut or with an intricate meeting. The wrapping effects and strategic cuts also appear strongly with, again, a mainly neutral palette of black, white and gray, but given a pop through rich reds.

The sensation was completely different in the editions of Caro, where the dressing of occasions became colorful with lounge visions of pink, multicolored moles and tonal stripes. There was an atmosphere of the 80s for the dresses and the monkeys of doubt, as well as almost not taken from Ra-ra. And the exaggerated arch was the key detail. Find it in the wrapping belts, the hem in the polka dots or feminizing a pair of sneakers or bags.