SS25 CPHFW Talk Series – What Does Personal Style Mean in the Nordics?⁠

The SS25 talk series with Vogue Business as media partner make up a vital element of the official schedule each season, representing an opportunity to dig deeper into wider issues facing fashion.

The talk will activate the global network of Copenhagen Fashion Week, inviting industry leaders from a variety of organizations and practices to speak across the topics at hand.

Furthermore, Copenhagen Fashion Week is excited to announce Vogue Business as official media partner, who will use their global audience to amplify the reach of the talks that will be launched as podcasts post release.

Topic:

An investigation of how individual style and philosophies of dress have shaped an understanding of what this can signal in the Nordics and to a global stage.

A region once known for its uniform sense of fashion has become one of the world’s greatest exporters of groundbreaking, unique styles. In the past few decades, a storm of innovations in design, literature, and technology have radically reshaped the pillars of Nordic dress. How have the exceptionally stylish people of the Nordics challenged what the term ‘personal style’ means within their own countries and worldwide? What caused this break from tradition (and from janteloven)? And after the rise of Nordic signatures like airy minimalism, pattern-clashing maximalism, and nature-forward utilitarianism, who should we look towards to dictate what might come next?

Moderator:

Ruby Redstone, Fashion Historian

Ruby Redstone is a fashion historian and contemporary fashion writer. Her work has been featured in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and New York Magazine, and she created a column on the history of runway fashion for an audience of over two million readers on the now- shuttered style-and-culture website Man Repeller. She holds an MA in Fashion History from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an MA in the History of Art from the University of Saint Andrews. Her monthly newsletter, Old Fashioned, examines the intersection of fashion history, contemporary fashion design, and personal style.

Panelists:

Sally Javadi, Content Creator, Psychology Major

Sally Javadi is an Iranian born Danish woman, holding a major in psychology. Sally's career has led her to be a full time content creator after starting her instagram account @sallyssneakers in 2019. With a sneaker collection surpassing 350 pairs, Sally is a certified sneaker head whose enigmatic content has seen her grow a global community.

Laird Borrelli-Persson, Senior Archive Editor, Vogue

Laird Borrelli-Persson is the Senior Archive Editor at Vogue.com. She studied at Boston College and Oxford University before getting her masters at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is the author of Fashion Illustration Now, Fashion Illustration Next, Net Mode: Web Fashion Now, Fashion Drawings by Fashion Designers, Bags: A Lexicon of Style, which she coauthored with Valerie Steele, and Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking.

Richard Ntege, Fashion Stylist & Jewellery Designer

Renowned for his sophisticated and visionary styling, Richard Ntege has made a significant impact on the Scandinavian fashion world. As the bridge between Rolf Ekroth and Puma, he styled two remarkable seasons of their show. Richard has collaborated with brands like Très Bien, Nike, and Puma, and designed exclusive collections for Aplace and Stiksen. His award-winning work continues to define and elevate contemporary fashion.

Nicklas Skovgaard, Founder, Nicklas Skovgaard

Nicklas Skovgaard founded their eponymous brand that is a considered a luxury womenswear brand, with a strong elocution intending to delight through unexpected parallels. Founded in 2020, the Copenhagen-based brand aims to explore the relationship textiles can hold in expressing narrative through the marriage of unexpected material and classical form. Constructing two collections a year, each body of work for Nicklas Skovgaard builds upon the last, acting with an evolutionary purpose and building an ever-evolving vocabulary. Orchestrating theses classical and strange symphonies within his eponymous textiles and recognisable design, Nicklas Skovgaard is a brand cultivated on the edge of romanticism and realism.