STAMM SS24 at Copenhagen Fashion Week

STAMM SS24 at Copenhagen Fashion Week

STAMM Spring/Summer 2024, A part of Quotes Elisabet Stamm entitled Don’t Stop, We’re Dreaming

I didn’t say a word until I was three years old. Then I spoke a full sentence. I said ‘Now Dad is driving o ’. Since then I only spoke if it was an absolute must.

I had one brother and 10 cousins, all boys, and I wasn’t the sweet princess my aunties had hoped for. I remember hearing ‘She’s very shy. She’s really her own’. I wasn’t shy. I was quiet and I knew that even if I spoke they wouldn’t actually hear me.

I day-dreamed.

I let all the adults voices become a backdrop only buzzing in my ears as if you hear your neighbors having a loud party at night.

I had two imaginary friends; Janus and Yanting. They were courageous and fun, they made me do all sorts of things.

They cut my hair so that all the other kids thought I was a boy.

They also helped me hide, once to a point where my parents called the police thinking that I went missing.

Animals were my friends, more than people. I gave all of them names, and since my dad had a farm there was many. In my teen room I had birds, turtles, ‑sh, and we always had dogs. We had four dogs all called Chili.

Later on, I felt more connected to 2Pac, Aaliyah, Snoop Dogg and Eminem on MTV than the two kids who lived next door.

I would sit in silence and observe something, someone or all the things I would pass by while driving with my Dad and then make a story about it in my mind.

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We did weddings for the ponies and dressed them up. I always did photoshoots with my dogs and so we did with the ponies too. I styled and directed (the photoshoots) and then I rode on my bike to develop the images from the camera roll.

When I started this STAMM SS24 season’s creative process for STAMM, I felt the need to bring something genuine from my heart.

I knew I wanted to bring the silhouettes I had just introduced, and I wanted to keep creating room for movement and clothes with dimension. To stay in love with what I do, I had to ask myself

‘What makes me feel joyful?’

‘What is luxury to me?’

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I want to bring all the sustainable fabrics and my best recycled founds of fabrics, but before that I want to bring what I reignited during this process: A youthful energy unlimited and not to be de‑ned by any age, an open exchange with people who inspire me.