Deadwood Spring/Summer 2025 at Copenhagen Fashion Week

Deadwood Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 at Copenhagen Fashion Week entitled “LEAVING THE DARK CITY”. With challenging times as backdrop, Deadwood set out to create a collection that deals with navigating one’s way out of the darker alleyways of the mind.

Finding strong metaphors in a now demolished residential area in Hong Kong called Kowloon Walled City, in Cantonese referred to as “The City of Darkness”, the collection uses this damp and dimly lit labyrinth as inspiration. The resilience and ingenuity of the citizens of this place inspires to this day, and Deadwood Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 collection is full of references to this; especially the pragmatic use of whatever is at your disposal to mend what is broken and the ability to see beauty in everyday objects and to use them to express oneself. This of course rhymes well with the Deadwood core ethos of using recycled, repurposed or leftover materials whenever it is plausible.

The colors in Deadwood Spring/Summer 2025 / SS25 collection are subdued, ranging from olive green to deep sea navy, interspersed with bright splashes of signal red. Expect to see light technical surplus materials contrasted with more humble natural materials like deadstock denim and recycled cotton jersey. There will be upcycled leather of course, but also vegan leather alternatives made from residue from tea production.

As always with Deadwood there is a post-cataclysmic feel, but this time it comes to a bright resolution. When the dark city is torn down, who will emerge from the rubble? That’s what Deadwood hopes to explore.

The show takes place on Aug 7th at 11:00 CEST, in a back alley in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district, and the set design will be raw, minimal, with subtle references to the wet markets of old Hong Kong.

About Deadwood, In 2012, best friends Carl Ollson and Felix von Bahder set out on a journey to build a slow-evolving collection where progressive uses of materials would be core. Founded as the offspring of a vintage store in Stockholm, the brand began as a project of reworking vintage garments. From there Deadwood went on to make the leather industry more waste-efficient by offering a range of products from upcycled deadstock leather. Today the collections feature an array of materials, with the policy that 80 percent of garments should be from rescued waste materials and the remaining 20 percent should be made from innovative materials with a positive impact.