
Designers
CPHFW NEWTALENT Designers
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Anne Sofie Madsen
- Position
- Anne Sofie Madsen
- Company
- Founder & Creative Director
Anne Sofie Madsen, a graduate of The Royal Danish Academy, began her career in Paris and London, working for John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. In 2014, she presented her first live show at Paris Fashion Week, and for several years, her brand was a regular feature on the official Paris Fashion Week calendar. Over time, Madsen’s creative vision evolved alongside her personal journey. Becoming a mother and experiencing new chapters in life led her to reflect on her work and expand her artistic expression beyond fashion. She returned with a small collection for AW25 and now continues with her second.
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Bonnetje
- Position
- Anna Myntekær & Yoko Maja Hansen
- Company
- Creative Directors
Bonnetje, a Copenhagen-based brand, specializes in cutting up old suits and reassembling the pieces into new silhouettes. By reusing defunct materials, they contribute to the search for fashion beyond the current throwaway society.
Their focus extends to past, present, and future sustainable practices. Bonnetje does not aim to pioneer a brand new style but offers their perspective on the emerging movement of circularity within fashion.
Collaboration with contemporary peers and across generations is essential to their approach. Rather than discarding yesterday’s fashion, they aim to preserve it for today and reintroduce it into circulation. In refashioning existing suit items, Bonnetje literally turns certain parts inside-out, honoring the meticulous tailoring by exposing hidden details such as seams, pockets, and lining. Additionally, they incorporate feminine silhouettes into classic masculine forms, blurring the lines between inclusion and exclusion within clothing.
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Stem
- Position
- Sarah Brunnhuber
- Company
- Founder & Creative Director
Stem is an innovative zero-waste production brand for woven garments. Stem is an industry changing approach to how clothing is made. Their novel zero-waste woven textile system eliminates garment production waste. A Stem garment is made from (recycled) natural fibres and produced using our unique weaving, cutting and sewing technique.
CPHFW NEWTALENT One To Watch
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Sson
- Position
- Yulia Kjellsson
- Company
- Creative Director & Co-Founder
Sson is a Stockholm-based fashion brand, founded in 2024, reimagining discarded garments and materials into conceptual ready-to-wear collections that merge sustainability with contemporary culture. Led by Creative Director and Co-Founder Yulia Kjellsson, the brand reconstructs second-hand textiles into contemporary silhouettes, that balance masculine tailoring with romantic draping, infused with elements of streetwear. Each collection grows from a conceptual narrative, exploring questions of identity, culture and time. Rooted in circularity, Sson is committed to pioneering a future fashion model that is both ethical and environmentally responsible, while never losing sight of fashion’s essence: creativity, storytelling, and innovation.
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Studio Constance
- Position
- Rebecca Dovenryd Almberg
- Company
- Creative Director
Studio Constance is a Swedish brand, redefining how fashion goods and clothing are produced and consumed. As an ode to modern women, they strive to introduce a concept of feral luxury—an idea free from conformism—and provide quality garments designed to be reused, recycled, and resold. Feral women are their heroines. A feral woman is, first and foremost, herself. She is full of contradictions, free to change her mind, yet unwavering in her values. Studio Constance is a movement toward meaningful luxury. With a clear identity, compelling founder story, and scalable sustainability, it’s poised to become an ode to the modern woman– bold, sophisticated, and culturally resonant.
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Taus
- Position
- Freyja Taus
- Company
- Creative Director
Taus is a Copenhagen-based ready-to-wear and demi-couture studio founded in 2024 by Freyja Taus and Juho Lehiö.
Rooted in craftsmanship and slowness, Taus approaches fashion not as novelty, but as dialogue — between past and present, object and body, maker and wearer. Each piece is part of a wider exploration: of identity, of class, of what it means to dress with intention.
CPHFW NEWTALENT Alumni
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Berner Kühl
- Position
- Frederik Berner Kühl
- Company
- Founder & Designer
Frederik Berner Kühl is the designer and founder of his eponymous brand Berner Kühl.
Informed by a past in production before moving on to design and a Master's degree from Polimoda in Firenze, Frederik is striving to convey his vision in ultimate materiality. Prolonging his vision of texture and feel, his ideas first solidify into materials, which are then driving the actual design.
The fabric decides what shape is best showcasing the material quality. With an ambition to create something that is destined to last. The modular wardrobe approach adopted by the brand is calling for less and better consumption. With an intent to educate the consumer on what good product can be.
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A. Roege Hove
- Position
- Amalie Roege Hove
- Company
- Founder & Creative Director
A. Roege Hove is a conceptual knitwear brand that challenges traditions with a modern and artistic approach to original craftsmanship and an aim for silhouettes to be both effortless and extravagant. The unique designs are created each season by founder Amalie Røge Hove. With a master’s in textile design from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and years of experience as a knitwear designer for Danish brands such as Cecilie Bahnsen and Mark Tan, she created the brand in 2019 as a way of bringing her own visions of knitwear to life. Defined by an experimenting and intuitive way of working with traditional knitwear techniques, the brand challenges our perception of shape and pushes our expectations of the materials and their behaviour.
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Rolf Ekroth
- Position
- Rolf Ekroth
- Company
- Founder & Designer
Rolf Ekroth, the Finnish-Swedish designer has one of fashion’s most unusual backstories. While most of his friends opted to study business after high school, this contrarian decided to show them up by studying social work. A few years in, Ekroth realized the field wasn’t for him. After taking a few months off, out of the blue a friend who had noted Ekroth’s interest in clothing, suggested Ekroth try fashion. And he did. Since graduating from Helsinki’s Aalto University in 2015, Ekroth has done several collaborative projects, was a finalist at the Hyères Festival, and won the ALPHA Award 2015 (previously Designers’ Nest). He relaunched his namesake label independently in 2020 during the pandemic.
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Iso.Poetism by Tobias Birk Nielsen
- Position
- Tobias Birk Nielsen
- Company
- Founder
The ambitious vision of the Copenhagen based label is to analyse and focus on abstract emotional conditions which relate to all modern human beings, for example topics such as grief, isolation, and joy. The project is founded by former Wood Wood & Boris Bidjan Saberi design trainee, just a week after graduating in 2017, as a Master alumni from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts & Design.
The brand is today selling its artifacts in more than 35 countries worldwide with partners such as END. Clothing, ILLUM, Harvey Nichols, HBX Hypebeast, and La Rinascente, and is presenting their collections during the Paris Mens Fashion week twice a year, as well as through shows in such places as Berghain Berlin, Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius and CIFF Copenhagen.
Iso.Poetism by Tobias Birk Nielsen was awarded winner of the Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize 2022.![]()
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P.L.N.
- Position
- P.L.N.
- Company
- Founder
P.L.N. was founded in 2020 by Peter Lundvald Nielsen and then officially launched in August 2021 with the brand’s first collection (Collection I). Peter Lundvald Nielsen has previously worked for Balenciaga, Vetements and Ottolinger before starting his own clothing brand. i-D Magazine mentioned P.L.N. to be one of the best collections presented during CPHFW SS22. Since then, P.L.N. has received wide interest from both leading dealers, international press as well as recognized creative actors. P.L.N. is a very personal project based on exploring a raw and uncompromising visual expression. The designer’s ideas and personal tastes form the foundation of the creative process. Here, European punk culture is mixed, with references to workwear, goth and antique religious attire in addition to well-considered silhouettes, thorough construction, as well as experimental reinterpretations. P.L.N. is based on a traditional understanding of the body, but is not limited to a particular gender or sexuality.
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Latimmier
- Position
- Ervin Latimer
- Company
- Founder
Latimmier is a new ready-to-wear label by rising Finnish fashion talent Ervin Latimer. Latimmier collections are designed for anyone who wants to express masculinity with their clothing. The brand aims to expand the notion of masculinity by challenging who can perform masculinity and what kind of clothing can be used to do that. After graduating from the prestigious Aalto University in Helsinki in 2018, Latimer was headhunted to work at cult luxury label Alyx under creative director Matthew M. Williams. Since then, Latimer has worked for Danish high-end label Heliot Emil and in 2020 he was awarded awarded Young Designer of the Year in Finland.
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Nicklas Skovgaard
- Position
- Nicklas Skovgaard
- Company
- Founder & Creative Director
Founded in 2020, the Copenhagen-based brand aims to explore the relationship textiles can hold in expressing narratives through the marriage of unexpected material and classical form. Creating his own textiles that cultivate an exceptional surface, Nicklas Skovgaard taught himself weaving after discovering a small loom and crafting swatches of his own fabric. Expanding on to a bigger surface allowed Nicklas to create larger pieces moulded into jackets, hats and capelets. With his handmade textiles mapped against contradictory fabrications and cut into unexpected silhouettes, there is a strange visual appeal to the combinations that range from hand-woven wool fabric merged with water repellant fabric, silk taffeta and stretch jersey. All resulting in silhouettes that are captivating in their unexpected manipulations and combinations, hoping to profess a dreamlike state clothes can affect.
Constructing two collections a year, each body of work builds upon the last, acting with an evolutionary purpose and building an ever-evolving vocabulary. Orchestrating these classical and strange symphonies within his eponymous textiles and recognizable design, Nicklas Skovgaard is a brand cultivated on the edge of romanticism and realism.












