Saturday 12 August 2017

Astrid Andersen Womenswear SS18 CPHFW

Astrid Andersen returns to the catwalk in the brand's native Denmark for the second time during Copenhagen Fashion Week with the Spring/Summer 2018 womenswear collection, continuing her exploration of finding new common ground for tradition and heritage with the contemporary sports-luxury sphere. This remains a common thread throughout Astrid Andersen’s collections - translating the familiar into something new and interpreting unexpected references as fresh and relevant to a generation championing a new way of dressing. This season takes the archetypical Safari theme as referenced throughout the history of fashion in various guises and turns its natural curiosity into a personal quest to discover unfamiliar territory for the brand’s aesthetics. 

This season’s colour palette and fabrication are a strong focus as is typical in Astrid Andersen’s collections. A dusty high-tech hybrid of muted green ripstops, metallic lace and loose natural cottons mixed with seam sealed finishes on fine wovens and printed floral silk. This contrast of a contemporary product category interlaced with unexpected elements of tradition and luxury usually associated with other times and places has always been a theme in Astrid Andersen’s work but continues to sing through as a signature pillar of the brand’s handwriting. A quiet sense of peace and calm flows through the collection telling an age-old story of the past in a new voice.

Astrid Andersen has collaborated with Monies jewellery, a Danish company with 40 years experience in crafting natural materials into elegant and avant-garde pieces, producing and designing unique collections for some of the world’s biggest fashion houses. The capsule features unique Brazilian mountain crystals combined with Acacia wood discs from the Philippines – handcrafted and designed at the Monies Copenhagen harbour front workshop specially for Astrid Andersen. The common ground and mutual understanding of a dedication to craftsmanship and honouring a commitment to creating personal interpretations of luxury across genders and generations makes Monies for Astrid Andersen the perfect partner to this season’s collection.













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