Copenhagen Fashion Week

Copenhagen Fashion Week is notorious for its iconic street style, its up-and-coming Scandinavian designers, and its emerging fashion market. The FW25 season previewed emerging trends in cropped coats, faux fur, and oversized bags.

Fashion creative Renia Jaz attends the OpéraSport Autumn/Winter 2025 show in Moschino’s multi-collar maxi skirt, a Ducie London brown fur coat, and Amina Muaddi heels on the first day of Copenhagen Fashion Week in Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo by Raimonda Kulikauskiene, courtesy of Getty Images, and made available by InStyle © All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.

Copenhagen Fashion Week has cemented itself as the epicenter of dynamic fashion, blending Scandinavian minimalism with bold, maximalist designs. The display of creative excellence stands as a trailblazer in the global movement towards sustainable fashion. This year’s show was an abundance of innovative styling and refreshing collections, highlighting the coexistence of high fashion with ethical practices to set a new industry standard. From gender-fluid collections to avant-garde street style, the Danish capital has once again shown why it's considered one of the five fashion capitals of the world.

66 North
66 North celebrated 99 years in the fashion industry with their debut at Copenhagen Fashion Week with a day-long interactive exhibit and complimenting runway show titled “867,815,464 Hours” in tribute to the number of hours since the brand’s founding. The Icelandic outerwear brand’s rich archive includes historical pieces from the iconic 1930s Fisherman’s coat, the 1998 Winter Olympic kit for the Icelandic team, and the snowsuit worn by Leifur Örn Svavarsson, the first Icelander to climb Mount Everest’s north side in 2013. In a journey from past to present to future, 66 North took viewers into the insightful strategies used by the brand to upkeep their sustainable practices as well as the intricate craftsmanship that goes into each design. The runway collection was a showcase of thick winter puffers over optimal snow pants and heavy-duty bags.

66 North celebrates its 99-year anniversary at Copenhagen Fashion Week with an interactive exhibition and runway show titled “867,815,464 Hours” in Copenhagen, Denmark. Via IG @66north © All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.

ALIS
Danish label ALIS made a return to the runway with its Autumn/Winter 2025 collection “Comeback Culture” after the brand was sold in 2022. The collection was a tribute to the brand’s founding origins in the Christiana quarter of Copenhagen in 1995 as a skate brand. ALIS creative lead Tobias Birk Nielsen reinvented streetwear for FW25, playing on influences from skate style and Danish hip-hop communities. Unconventional clothing took center stage on the runway as some models walked in baggy, over-the-knee boots, coats zipped up backwards, and a finale look featuring nothing more than a winter hat and ALIS tape. Denim and plaid were featured throughout in an ode to classic 90s street culture with plays on baggy clothing and skirts over trousers often worn by skateboarders.

Models walk the runway for ALIS’s Autumn/Winter 2025 collection “Comeback Culture” at Copenhagen Fashion Week in Copenhagen, Denmark. Via IG @alis_dk © All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.

OpéraSPORT
Awa Malina Stelter and Stephanie Gundelach’s OpéraSPORT is well known for using recycled and organic fabrics, keeping with CPHFW’s sustainability requirements while upholding luxurious wear. The duo opened the week with their Autumn/Winter 2025 collection held in King Christian IV of Denmark’s 400-year-old brewhouse. The historic ambiance provided by the intimate runway location was reflected in the royal aesthetics and art deco motifs present in the line. The collection was an amalgam of black and white with hints of blues and creams in the form of denim and overcoats. Layering was key, with some looks featuring a scarf wrapped and knotted around the waist, while others had thin sweaters over button-ups. Supermodel Lindsey Wixon opened the show in an oversized black blazer and silk trousers while carrying a cream and beige striped fur coat in a look that echoed the emerging trend of fur coats this season.

Models walk for OpéraSPORT’s Autumn/Winter 2025 collection at Copenhagen Fashion Week in King Christian IV of Denmark’s 400-year-old brewhouse in Copenhagen, Denmark. Made available via Vogue Scandinavia © All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.

Han Kjøbenhavn
In one of the last runways of the week, Danish fashion house Han Kjøbenhavn presented “Concrete Born” for the brand’s Autumn/Winter 2025 collection. The line took inspiration from urban landscapes and artistic director Jannik Wikkelsø Davidsen’s childhood in Denmark. Raw metropolitan flourishes under Davidsen’s direction with overexaggerated shoulders, over-the-knee ruched boots, and redesigned football jerseys. Faux fur was back in action, and structural shapewear in the form of high, triangular collars resonated with the industrial setting of the show. Davidsen proves that skinny jeans may be making a comeback this season with some models sporting tight pants underneath the large boots.

Models walk for Han Kjøbenhavn’s Autumn/Winter 2025 collection “Concrete Born” by Jannik Wikkelsø Davidsen at Copenhagen Fashion Week in Copenhagen, Denmark. Made available via Vogue Scandinavia © All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.

CPHFW NEWTALENT
In partnership with Danish brand Ganni and Copenhagen-based brand Rotate, Copenhagen Fashion Week held a showroom breakfast designed to connect press and buyers with emerging Nordic fashion brands in NEWTALENT. NEWTALENT is an incubator program designed by CPHFW to develop and support up-and-coming Nordic designers through three seasons to promote their brand. This year’s NEWTALENT showroom featured Alectra Rothschild / Masculina, Bonnetje, Berner Kühl, Stamm, and Taus, represented by Alpha. CEO of Copenhagen Fashion Week Cecile Thorsmark and Ganni Creative Director Ditte Reffstrup gave opening remarks as guests browsed the showroom’s various collections in anticipation of rising talent breaking through the Nordic fashion industry.

Editors, members of the press, and buyers attend Copenhagen Fashion Week’s NEWTALENT Showroom breakfast to see collections by Alectra Rothschild / Masculina, Bonnetje, Berner Kühl, Stamm, and Taus, represented by Alpha. Via IG @cphfw© All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.

Street Style
Copenhagen Fashion Week is synonymous with street style as editors and fashion creatives alike flock to the Danish capital not only to see the latest in Scandinavian fashion on the runway but to see it emerge every day. Outerwear was a huge component this season given the city’s rainy forecast. Long trenches overtook the streets, with some attendees playing with animal print patterns and heavy fabrics like wool and faux fur, which has surfaced as one of the number-one trends to emerge from the Autumn/Winter 2025 season. Office siren took on a new meaning with traditional button-ups and ties being layered under oversized sweater vests and blazers and paired with maxi skirts and riding boots. Bomber jackets were another staple throughout the week, with brown leather being the favored choice. The jacket is easily styled over workwear, elevating office outfits into luxurious outfits. Suede was a popular fabric choice on jackets, and maxi skirts alike, while fringe was the trending appliqué on many a bag and jacket.

Attendees of Copenhagen Fashion Week walk the streets in Copenhagen, Denmark while attending shows styled in long coats, upscale business attire, and riding boots. Photos by Raimonda Kulikauskiene and made available by Elle © All rights belong to their respective owners. No copyright infringement intended.