Copenhagen Fashion Week announces a lineup of 36 brands as part of its official Spring/Summer 2023 program in August. The event is planned as a fully physical event this season – after several pandemic-related digital or partly digital events. In a statement, Copenhagen Fashion Week (CPHFW) said that fashion week SS23, which runs from August 9-12, 2022, shows a “strong commitment” to emerging talent and a “strong focus” on Nordic menswear and design countries and wants to put sustainability in the foreground.
Highlights of the program include ‘Future Visionaries’, with emerging talent Jade Cropper, (Di)vision, The Garment, A. Roege Hove and PLN taking part alongside Finnish label Latimmier and OperaSport, who are making their debuts will. According to the programme, the Royal Danish Academy is also to present the MA collections of its graduating class.
Fashion week executives also added that further plans to support emerging creatives are set to be unveiled in mid-June, as part of a major announcement about the organization’s role in nurturing design talent.
CPHFW focuses on emerging talent, menswear, sustainability and Nordic brands for SS23
The program also focuses on menswear this season. Berner Kühl and Sunflower return to the program, as do Soulland, Martin Asbjørn, Schnayderman’s and Wood Wood, as well as last season’s Zalando Sustainability Award winning label, Iso.Poetism by Tobias Birk Nielsen. In addition, Holzweiler, Henrik Vibskov and Mark Kenly Domino Tan will also present menswear in their collections.
As with all CPHFW editions, the show schedule also aims to showcase the best of the Nordic countries. For example, fashion label Ganni has confirmed it will be physically present in August, alongside a line-up that includes Saks Potts, Helmstedt, Rotate, Skall Studio, Stine Goya, Hope, Baum und Pferdgarten, Lovechild 1979, Gestuz, Munthe, Rabens Saloner, Remain and Samsøe Samsøe. This season, CPHFW will also add Hungarian brand Aeron to the program.
The August event will also be the fourth edition of the Zalando Sustainability Awards present, with finalists from Great Britain, Iceland and France. As part of the Zalando x CPHFW partnership, British fashion brand Raeburn, Paris-based label Mworks and London/Reykjavík-based design studio Ranra will present their latest collections. The prize is EUR 20,000 and a partnership with Zalando to develop an exclusive capsule collection.
While SS23 fashion week is planned as an all-physical event, CPHFW leadership added that all shows will continue to be live streamed via copenhagenfashionweek.com and via the CPHFW YouTube Channel.
This article was previously published on FashionUnited.uk. Translation and editing: Barbara Russ