The calendar of global fashion weeks has already whipped cognoscenti around the world this year, and it’s barely February. This week, New York hosts its packed schedule of Fall shows; last week, it was Copenhagen’s turn on the world fashion stage.Copenhagen fashion week energizes the whole city. Massive television screens beam the shows to the [...]

When Helena Christensen says go, you go—even, as it turns out, if it happens to be pouring rain. That’s how it went at the so-called “World’s Greatest Catwalk” that closed out Copenhagen fashion week on Saturday. Organizers laid down literally a mile of pink carpet in the city center, and Helena Christensen issued the sendoff [...]

Tonight at around 11 p.m.—so they say, but my money’s on midnight or later—a handful of Denmark’s best designers present a runway show of a few looks from their Fall collections for the revelers celebrating VMan’s Scandinavian issue at Good Units. VMan’s Stephen Gan sees big things in Scandinavia’s fashion future, I’m told, and has [...]

“Art is part of the collection and the collection is part of the art,” Henrik Vibskov told us. Case in point: The graphic works on paper he’s showing at Berlin’s Pool Gallery, beginning today, will also appear on the textiles of his Fall 2010 collection, debuting next week in Copenhagen. “I basically let my brain [...]

The Brits have Glastonbury; the Danes have Roskilde. Drummer-slash-designer Henrik Vibskov will be upping the festival’s fashion quotient this weekend with a pop-up store (I know, we’ve sworn them off, but this one’s different; it’s at a music festival!) that will sell “limited hand-picked samples from previous collections at friendly prices.” Runway darling Agnete Hegelund [...]

What do baby showers and four-on-the-floor techno have in common? Henrik Vibskov, naturally. Last night, the Danish designer fêted the stateside launch of his new line of kiddie goods made in collaboration with buggy specialists Quinny, and though the party represented Vibskov’s debut fashion event in New York, he’s hardly a stranger to the city. [...]