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Copenhagen has long been celebrated for its unique fashion, design, innovation, and sustainability practices, and yet there has never been a comprehensive history of Copenhagen fashion and its current innovation and sustainability drive.
This book fills that gap, assembling a multidisciplinary roster of contributors to examine all aspects of Copenhagen fashion and culture. Grounded in a broad context of Danish culture, industry, media, technology, sustainability, and innovation practices within the wider cultural and economic fields of fashion, the book helps us understand what makes Copenhagen unique.
'A well-written piece of literature that critically examines the locational history of Copenhagen fashion using accurate and diverse sources. Most importantly, it addresses a topic that has little existing literature on it. The goal of this book is very clear: to expand on the current limited view of fashion culture by examining both historical and contemporary factors. It is through these factors that we are able to further understand Copenhagen fashion at its core. Sark’s ethodological approach to writing this book is based on her fifteen years of work analysing various fashion cultures in Berlin, Vienna, Montreal and Los Angeles (9). Each body of work begins with an extensive literature review and analyses literature, film, TV shows and other mediums where fashion is on display in combination with interviews as a primary source. And lastly, organizations and brands are identified within the local fashion industry to provide contextual examples for her claims. A considerable amount of illustrations and graphics are used as well when appropriate to bolster her claims.
This body of work is ground-breaking and provides a great background for new and continuing research on the future of Copenhagen’s fashion culture.'
— Emma Squires, Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
Katrina Sark is an Associate Professor of Fashion Studies in the Department of Design and Communications at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). She specializes in cultural analysis, cultural history, media, gender studies, sustainability, and decoloniality. She is the founder of the Canadian FashionScholars Network, the co-founder of Intellect's Urban Chic book series, and the co-author of Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion (2011), Montréal Chic: A Locational History of Montreal Fashion (2016)
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Fashion Culture – Katrina Sark
1. Scandinavian Chic – Katrina Sark
2. Copenhagen Fashion History – Marie Riegels Melchior
3. Fashioning Sustainability – Else Skjold and Frederik Larsen
4. Fashioning Functionality – Trine Brun Petersen and Maria Mackinney-Valentin
5. The Bearded Queens of Copenhagen – Anders Larsen and Maria Mackinney-Valentin
6. Fashion in Film – Katrina Sark, with research contributions by Bjørn Utoft Sørensen, Emilie Thomsen and Izabella Andersen
7. Fashion in TV Shows – Katrina Sark and Izabella Andersen
8. Innovation and Technology – Katrina Sark, Bjørn Utoft Sørensen and Emilie Thomsen
Conclusion – Katrina Sark
Notes on Contributors