The Garment, Jenny Hytönen, and ESP Oslo are among the young Danish, Swedish and Finnish brands led by emerging women designers making a big splash on Scandinavia’s fashion scene.
Jenny Hytönen says her 'Untitled' collection experiments with contrasts between sensitivity and roughness, taking inspiration from the 1980s fetish scene as well as 1940s office wear.
Aishah Saleeman Nigerians are talented and they have made their mark in various capacities around the world. When Nigerians in Hollywood are mentioned, John Boyega, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Dayo Okeniyi steal the spotlight due to their glaring roles as actors but there are several Nigerians behind the scenes that are doing great things […]
Belgian designer Tom Van Der Borght is speaking to me from Berlin where, some 15 hours prior, he showed his Autumn/Winter 2021 menswear collection (“Seven Ways To Be TVDB / Act 3: A Hopeful Parade”) as part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. “It’s always nice the morning after the show and you get reactions,” he chirrups down the phone. “It’s a moment I enjoy a lot actually.”
The 42-year-old designer is right to feel upbeat. Mounted in an audience-free show space at the German capital’s former power station (AKA the “Kraftwerk”) and consisting of 21 retina-bending creative looks dubbed “High-Tech Bricolage” by the designer, the show plunged a welcome shot of positivity into the arm during so-called Blue Monday, the most depressing day of the year.