Kopenhagen Fur and ten designers

– Danish designers’ ideas for innovative fur creations. 

Creativity, innovation and superb craftsmanship are recurring themes in Kopenhagen Fur’s opening show for Copenhagen Fashion Week. Ten Danish designers with widely differing backgrounds have been hand-picked to present their innovative ideas on fur design anno 2010.

In the run-up to the show, the designers have been giving free rein to their imagination in Kopenhagen Fur’s creative centre, Kopenhagen Studio, which regularly invites designers in to exchange ideas on innovative fur design in collaboration with the centre’s professional expertise. For this show, Kopenhagen Studio has opened its doors to Benedikte Utzon, Christian Westphal, David Andersen, E&L by Lundqvist, Elise Gug, Islæt, Louise Amstrup, Soulland, Søren Bach and WHIITE.

“We are proud to present such an interesting field of designers who embrace widely differing styles, and who range from established designers to up-and-coming talents. What they share is an understanding of the material with which they are working and, in particular, they all master the material’s limitations and challenges,” says Kopenhagen Fur’s Design and Production Manager Michael Holm.

How the individual designers interpret the fur can be seen in their use of dyed fur combined with hairdresser-inspired techniques, including couture-like elements and developing fur wovens as well as fusing fur with other materials.

In participating in the show, Kopenhagen Fur wants to actively support the efforts to make Copenhagen an international fashion centre and put Danish fashion and design on the world map.

“As the principal sponsor for Copenhagen Fashion Week, we are looking forward to an exciting week of fashion. This year we wanted to contribute to the fashion week with a show that presents the best within fur design, which ten enthusiastic designers have developed in collaboration with the professional expertise available at Kopenhagen Studio,” says Kopenhagen Fur’s Marketing Director, Patrizia Venturelli Christensen.