Fashion Talent Showcase: Copenhagen Fashion Week and the Victoria and Albert Museum Announce Their Collaboration Across the V&A Fashion in Motion

The London Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)'s Fashion in Motion project continues to offer an international stage for emerging design talent. For its May 2025 edition, Fashion in Motion will spotlight five rising designers from Denmark, celebrating the creativity, innovation, and expressive spirit that Copenhagen Fashion Week (CPHFW) has become known for.

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This initiative is a collaboration between the V&A and Copenhagen Fashion Week, which is recognized as Northern Europe’s leading fashion week as part of its broader effort to strengthen ties with the UK’s creative and cultural industries.

Scheduled for May 30, 2025, the showcase will feature five emerging designers who embody the innovation, creativity, and expressive spirit that CPHFW has helped pioneer on the international stage. Presented within the historic Raphael Court, three special catwalk presentations will be staged for the public, highlighting the collections of Alectra Rothschild / Masculina, Berner Kühl, Bonnetje, Stamm, and Stem.

Four of the designers—Rothschild / Masculina, Berner Kühl, Bonnetje, and Stamm—are part of the CPHFW NEWTALENT programme, an initiative dedicated to nurturing rising Nordic creatives. They will be joined by Stem, the 2024 recipient of the prestigious Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize.

The five designers will each present six key looks that reflect their individual vision and dedication to craftsmanship and creative expression.

The collaboration marks a significant moment in Copenhagen Fashion Week’s ongoing strategy to strengthen its ties with the UK’s creative and cultural industries. Speaking about the project, Cecilie Thorsmark, CEO of CPHFW, remarked,

"The Victoria and Albert Museum is a cultural cornerstone of the British creative scene. To present rising Danish talent through the V&A’s Fashion in Motion platform is a remarkable opportunity. By showcasing our NEWTALENT designers alongside the Wessel & Vett Fashion Prize winner, we hope to offer a strong visual representation of Denmark’s burgeoning fashion scene—and to build even stronger bridges between our two industries."

Oriole Cullen, Senior Curator of Fashion and Textiles at the V&A, echoed the sentiment, saying,

"Fashion in Motion gives us the opportunity to collaborate with exceptional creatives from around the world. We’re thrilled to partner with Copenhagen Fashion Week to showcase the exciting new voices shaping the future of Nordic fashion."

Since its inception in 1999, the Fashion in Motion series has offered free-to-attend catwalk shows within the V&A, providing the public with rare access to live runway experiences typically reserved for the industry elite. It has previously spotlighted fashion luminaries such as Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Jean Paul Gaultier, Erdem, Gareth Pugh, and Guo Pei, among others.

The May 2025 showcase promises to continue this tradition, offering museum visitors a front-row seat to some of Denmark’s most exciting emerging talents—and reaffirming Copenhagen Fashion Week’s reputation as a global leader in progressive, forward-thinking fashion.