7 Trends From Copenhagen Fashion Week That You Can Wear Right Now

Copenhagen Fashion Week is always a highlight of the international calendar. Staged in the middle of August, its proceedings have a particular glow, partly thanks to its midsummer timing but also because of itsdesigners, who generally favour cheerful colours, easy silhouettes and the kind of clothes that make you feel happy inside and out. And while they might be showing collections for SS22, there are plenty of trends that will work for right now. Keep scrolling for our favourite seven.

Sorbet Suiting

At Brøgger, louche suiting was given the ice cream parlour treatment, with sugary shades of pink and yellow worn side by side.

Sports Luxe

Good news! All that loungewear you collected over lockdown doesn't have to go to waste. Just look to Baum und Pferdgarten, who sent models down the runway wearing sporty zip-up tops with swishing maxi skirts. It's the new way to do smart-casual, no?

Craft

Holzweiler's new-gen approach to craft - creating the most amazing crocheted party dresses and giving miniskirts a fun fringed overlay - meant knitwear was front and centre of our minds.

Minis

Ganni's show was all about 'taking things a higher', celebrating a love for life with its return to physical shows. The other thing that was high? The hemlines, particularly this micro skirt embellished with a row of what looked like scrunched roses.

The New Party Dress

Rotate Birger Christensen majors in party dresses that tend to have big sleeves and barely-there lengths. Next season, however, they'll be altogether more laid-back with longer hemlines and a body-hugging silhouette that means the woman wears the patterns and not the other way round. Ganni's always been king of this kind of dress, and showed several with micro florals and ruched sides.

Statement Coats

We've all spent far too long huffing around the park in practical parkas. But next season, expect outerwear to have a somewhat brighter outlook. Over at Saks Potts, the coats were saturated shades of turquoise and tangerine, which (whisper it) means you don't have to make as much effort with what's underneath.

Working Woman

Now that most of us have a bit more flexibility when it comes to where we work, the idea of workwear has done a bit of an about turn. And while traditional tailoring will always have its place (particularly if it looks as exciting as Brøgger's, see above), there's room to get a bit more experimental, don't you think? Stine Goya's patterns, for example, are entirely fair game, especially when worn as a clashing trio (gilet + sweater vest + pleated skirt). Meetings will never be boring again.