Copenhagen Fashion Week AW25: The Henrik Vibskov AW25 Collection

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Event: Copenhagen Fashion Week AW25
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Brand: Henrik Vibskov
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First published: 29th January 2025 at 11:00 AM GMT.

For the AW25 collection, Henrik Vibskov explores the intricate dance between humanity’s desire to dominate nature and the serene, self-preserving forces that govern the natural world.

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About Henrik Vibskov

Henrik Vibskov is a renowned danish fashion designer, artist, curator and musician. Commonly associated with the fashion brand carrying the same name, the designer's work is known for its enticing universes and crossover into art installation, scenography, costumes, video, performance and exhibitions.

Since graduating from Central St Martin's in 2001, Henrik Vibskov has produced more than 40 fashion collections and exhibited in several international design fairs, festivals and museums all over the world, including MoMA in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa and the ICA in London, to name a few.

Henrik Vibskov AW25

A bit Overwhelmed by the Opaque Resonance

For the AW25 collection, Henrik Vibskov explores the intricate dance between humanity’s desire to dominate nature and the serene, self-preserving forces that govern the natural world.

This contrast – with a specific focus on landscapes - was the main drive for the team this season. With nature as a symbol for re-setting and going back to basics the silhouettes have been created from the principle of taking a fundamental starting point and manipulating the shape using different classic techniques. Styles are inspired by functional outerwear, mountaineering and animals. Jackets with double dusters and Tyrolean feather patches make one think of the lone shepard on the mountain. Signature textiles with mountain goats, footprints and fishermen stand in contrast to classic houndstooth and checks. One print is a graphic interpretation of footprints acting as a reminder of the traces that humans leave in nature. Colors are generally earthy in tone with contrasting touches of orange and sulfur yellow.

This season Vibskov teams up with long time friend and collaborator Hess Is More (Mikkel Hess) in the Apollonian Circles setting at Theatre Republique in Copenhagen, where Henrik already serves as costume designer as well as musician (drummer). In the spirit of re-setting, the scenography serves as a kind reminder showing the aftermath of human’s decadent party where natural decay and moss is beautifully growing on silverware, statues and rocks. Uniting fashion, concert, installation and performance, the landscape is activated through live dreamy soundscapes performed by Henrik Vibskov and the Hess Is More band. The set is, like the Apollonian Circles art piece, a constantly evolving scenography that is growing and reused over and over again, with many elements borrowed from other theatre productions.

The scenography, including all props, used for this show is part of the existing and ongoing production of Hess Is More’s ‘Apollonian Circles’ currently running at Theatre Republique throughout January.

Thank You
HV Design Team – HV, Judith Klingenfeld, Andreas Hermann Bloch, Zuzana Radicova, Lærke Engelshardt, Baptiste Comte
Management, Logistics, Accounting - Anja Gordon
Development & Production – Joost Jansen & Valerie Bonn
HV Installation Team – Baptiste Comte, Mia Fryk & Elvira von Wieding
Sales Team – VALD Agency & DUNE Japan
The SVIPSIES – Lin Zheng, Laura, Karoline, Lisa, Alice & Noëmi
Press Team – HV Press
Lookbook photography – Angela Djekic
Backstage photography – Theis Mortensen
Videographer – Louis Beckmann, 25hour production
HV Boutiques – Dorthe and other sweethearts in Copenhagen Moto and the Svipsies in NYC
Casting – Tuono Casting @tuono_casting
Styling – Christian Schleisner @stylist_christian_schleisner
Makeup – Lead artist: Jenny Jansson using NYX Professional Makeup @jenny_jansson @nyxcosmeticsnordics
Hair – Lead hair: Amalie Holmqvist using Maginista @amalie.holmqvist @maginistahaircare
Music by – Hess Is More: Mikkel Hess, Henrik Vibskov (drums) Ida Duelund (bass) Rasmus Vestervig (Guitar) Rasmus Bille Bähncke (keys) Raisa Castro (vocal/percussion) Mette Lindberg (vocal/percussion), Jens Bjørnkjær (saxophone)
Scenography by – Christian Friedländer & Dicki Lakha
Music management by – Kaja Management
A special thanks to – Theater Republique, Mikkel Hess and the whole team behind Apollonian Circles Thanks to all models, performers and dressers!
Thank you to all our suppliers and manufacturers and the one we forgot!

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