Fashion Trade Fair: Copenhagen Fashion Week announces show dates for next three years

Copenhagen Fashion Week (CPHFW ) is going from strength to strength and organisers are so encouraged from their continued success and have released the dates for the upcoming AW 2024 edition, but also set them for the next three years in collaboration with Dansk Mode & Textil, CIFFxRevolver and WEAR. 

This collaboration between the three organisations emphasises the significance of unity within the fashion industry, highlighting the shared commitment to ensure the continued success of Copenhagen Fashion Week, says Cecilie Thorsmark, CEO of CPHFW.  Together, all parties have agreed that Copenhagen Fashion Week will continue to take place in its usual time scale in January/February and August. 

Rolf Ekroth, Copenhagen Fashion Week new talent
 in the SPHERE showroom during SS24 Paris Fashion Week in September 2023.

"We clearly see that these brands (Dansk Mode & Textil, CIFFxRevolver and WEAR) do not want a move, as it will be associated with major logistical and practical challenges, as well as a potential loss of momentum in relation to the international fashion weeks with which we are gradually juxtaposed, and which all take place later in the season - namely in September immediately after Copenhagen Fashion Week. We have to listen to that if Danish fashion is to continue to assert itself beyond the country's borders, " says Thorsmark.

In addition, in a SS24 size-inclusivity report, Vogue Business has recognised CPHFW as being the most inclusive of all the fashion weeks (staged in New York, London, Milan, Paris and Copenhagen) after analysing all the shows and presentations on Vogue Runway for the SS24 womenswear season to determine the level of size-inclusive representation. 

Vogue Business calculated that at CPHFW, out of 503 looks across the 18 CPHFW shows on Vogue Runway, 1.4 percent were plus-size looks, 15.3 percent were mid-size, and 83.3 percent were straight-size. This level of inclusivity is considerably higher than any other city, says the report.

"It's something our brands have been aware of - and actively working with - for many years now and we've definitely seen a remarkable improvement over the years. Of course one can always do better, but we've come a long way this last decade. Today, as part of Copenhagen Fashion Week's Minimum Standards, which came into effect earlier this year, it's a requirement to be a signatory of the Danish Ethical Fashion Charter and to comply with its rules and values. We do backstage checks to monitor this and we also advise brands whom we see might need an extra push," says Thorsmark

All images from Copenhagen Fashion Week.