Royal Danish Academy Spring Summer 2025 at Copenhagen Fashion Week

Royal Danish Academy Spring Summer 2025 / SS25 at Copenhagen Fashion Week present The Royal Danish Academy’s Graduate Show 2024. Graduates from the Royal Danish Academy propose cultural diversity and user understanding as a means to a more sustainable fashion industry

The Graduates come together, proposing alternative narratives of a responsible future that is deeply rooted in ‘true values’ of cloth. By focusing on user understanding, identity and emotional attachment to garments, The Royal Danish Academy Spring Summer 2025 / SS25 graduate show show a holistic approach to a more sustainable fashion industry.

Meet the new designers at The Royal Danish Academy’s Graduate Show 2024 during Copenhagen Fashion Week – at Idrætshuset, Østerbro in Copenhagen on the 6th of August from 13.00-13.30.

The Royal Danish Academy 2024 Graduates from the Fashion, Clothing and Textile Master program at The Royal Danish Academy are poised to unveil their innovative and aspirational visions for the future of Fashion. The collected works represent their ideas for the world of tomorrow and propose new alternative narratives for a more responsible future that is deeply rooted in ‘true values’ of clothes. This is also the underlying ideological theme that binds their work together in unity; the Graduates all passionately aspire to make clothes that really matter and have the ability to make us hope and dream. Something that the world so desperately needs right now.

The projects represent skills and considerations that the new designers will bring into the existing fashion landscape. Their designs range from ball gowns to battle wear, from thrifted madness to tailored mourning dresses.

The newly trained designers have graduated from the MA program: Fashion, Clothing & Textiles; New Landscapes for Change’ and are interested in how to propose new sustainable paths for the fashion industry by engaging with individuality and aesthetic resonance.

Associate Professor, PhD, founder of the MA and head of KLOTHING – Centre for Apparel, textile and Ecology Research at the Royal Danish Academy, Else Skjold states:

By creating garments that is rooted in the emotional and cultural understanding of cloth, the designers are pointing to a more responsible future for the fashion industry, that is not only by handling materials sustainably – but also by pointing to the important role of the cultural values imbedded in fashion and what it means to the end user.

The Royal Denish Academy 2024 graduates have been engaged with various wardrobe studies and explored people’s relationship to their clothes. How do we understand local culture, cultural heritage and how to identify with a garment. Can we make people care for their cloth, not for just one season but for years?

In extension of this, many have been curious about how to produce locally and how to reinvent craft skills in Denmark both alternative and traditional crafts, which have been outsourced for decades.

As a way of using fashion as a cultural critique, the designers are engaged with gender issues and the transformative power of fashion. For example by playing with embedded power symbols in garments and deconstructing them into entirely new meanings and soft powers. Originating from around the globe, the graduates now come together in one show celebrating their diversity, community and the true values of cloths.

MA program at the Royal Danish Academy

The designers have graduated from the MA program ‘Fashion, Clothing & Textiles; New Landscapes for Change’. The program is dedicated to pioneering new ideas that redefine the future of fashion. https://royaldanishacademy.com/en/programme/fashion-clothing-textiles

Images of Royal Danish Academy 2024 Graduate

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