DISASSEMBLED

Todd McLellan. Beautiful and studious.

KØBENHAVN '12

Copenhagen August '11 was a metric scale of diametric opposition.  There for Copenhagen Fashion Week, the experience was chock-full of design highs. The fashion carte offered up some seriously beautiful collections by the likes of newcomer Anne Sophie Madsen and Charlotte Eskildsen's label Designers Remix (check out the silver-smeared hairlines and tennis-ball-pony-tails of the latter); genuinely brilliant and moving production design for Henrik Vibskov's show in the gardens of Joseph Thompsens Plads; and finally the delicious doll's-house-universe of an exhibition for designer Peter Jensen at the Danish Design Museum.

Off the fashion-front-row (which saw the rose-coloured-safari-suit-chic of Hamish Bowles and a blond-affro-clad Bryan Boy), the city served up the expected aesthetic trinket-box of amazing architecture, envy-making lighting (Copenhagen has THE best street lights in the world), amazing vintage shops, a 24 carat gold plated bicycle and the beautiful architecture of City Hall, the official venue of CFW. But the best was doubtlessly the scores of elegant, silver-haired couples dancing a tango on the boardwalk overlooking the sea. Totally unselfconscious and just for the pure joy of it.