TRIMMINGS!

Hej! Welcome to a special edition of TRIMMINGS! with some breaking news (and fun gossip) from Copenhagen Fashion Week. If you missed my outfit diary from the week, it’s here:

CPHFW S/S 2027 OUTFIT DIARY

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Aug 12

Welcome back to your annual diary of how I dressed myself at Copenhagen Fashion Week! I’ll spare you any philosophising here, as I’ve got a piece on my summer dressing theory coming out next week. Instead, here’s the meat and potatoes (micro shorts and t-shirts) of what I wore for a busy week of shows and showrooms.

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Ganni is going back to its Danish roots. The brand has been absent from the CPHFW calendar since 2023, but this summer they were noticeably more present in all the fashion week programming. In just five days at CPHFW, I attended a Ganni dance party, a talk at the Ganni showroom, and a dinner in the garden of founders Ditte and Nicolaj Reffstrup’s beautiful house, where I snagged the gossip that Ganni is de-rebranding from their Parisian makeover. Expect: loads of fun collaborations, expansion into activewear, and Ganni making itself back at home Copenhagen…eventually.

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Speaking of Ganni, the brand collaborated with Stem, one of the most exciting smaller designers in Copenhagen right now, on Stem’s S/S 2027 collection. Designer Sarah Brunhubber trawled Ganni’s archives of unused fabric to create her latest pieces, a piquant take on her innovative zero-waste designs. It’s hard to imagine this partnership between big-big and tiny-tiny brands happening anywhere other than Copenhagen, which is why I love CPHFW so much.

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The new must-have practical Danish girl sneakers are the Mary Jane-esque New Balance 204V, which appeared in half of the shows I saw and had their own celebratory breakfast at the ever-trendy Atelier September.

I’m not much of a tech-y sneaker girl—I really wish I were—but I think they’re super cute. As a tried-and-true New Yorker (who uses my shoes more for kicking trash out of my way than riding a bike), I’m partial to the basketball shoes from Nike that Anne Sofie Madsen used in her show. They’ll never not be the coolest thing on a girl, and they create a really amazing silhouette with long line trousers.

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Mixed reviews from everyone in town on Danish darling Nicklas Skovgaard’s much-anticipated show, but let it be known that I LOVED it. Models arrived in vintage cars and stomped to the sounds of Copenhagen’s own True Blue, who was playing with backup as a fictional 1960s girl group adorably named The Skovgaardettes. Design-wise Skovgaard has a lot of growing to do. His contemporary references are still far too visible—in this show alone, heady notes of recent Prada, Miu Miu, Marc Jacobs, Christopher Kane. However, he has a keen eye for what I suppose we now call world-building and he knows how to make things feel desirable and fun—a skill that’s worth millions in this day and age. It seems he has his sights set on a bigger stage than CPHFW, and I’m sure he’ll get there.

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Souvenir corner! Of course I had to bring home treats from my favourite shops in Copenhagen: hair clips from Pico, a feather brooch from Damernes Magasin, and a beautiful cashmere scarf from boutique Lot29’s in-house line which I plan to wear with everything all fall à la Prada. Not that we’re thinking about fall yet.

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Ruby