DAY 3
Our first show of the day was that of the collective Moonspoon made of up of Designer Sara Sachs, Artists Tal R, Photographer Noam Griegst, and stylist Melanie Buchhave. The show took place in an old school gymnasium where a beautiful skylight filling the room with natural light. Fittingly enough, children lined the balcony watching the show from above.
A relative newcomer to Copenhagen Fashion Week, Menswear designer Jean/Phillip showed a monochromatic, bondage influenced collection.
Ivan Grundahl is a Scandinavian institution, with outposts as far as Soho New York. Grundahl's F/W collection used asymmetrical lines, uneven silhouettes, and the clean-cut architectural shapes. He also made extensive use of artisan dying and fabric techniques.
Barbara I Gongini, originally from the Faroe Islands between Iceland and Norway, showed her 2nd runway show this season. The collection featured architectural hair and body paint. The choreography was one of the most complicated and well executed I've seen in some time. For this season, Gongini referenced and exploration of 2 and 3 dimension and experimenting with how to create garments using the fewest incisions possible.
BACK STAGE AT BARBARA I GONGINI
Kelly Bruce from NYLON
Cardboard crows, suitcases and guitars abounded in the runway show by the Stockholm based denim brand. It could have been called Copenhagen's the Beverly hillbillies.
Asside from the obvious logistic problems inherent in transporting 300 people up 3 floors using only a 4 person elevator, J