admin Scroll through Skovgaard’s Instagram, and you’ll find images of thrift-store finds and pastries, rococo furniture and a simple straw broom, a photograph by Sofia Coppola and paintings by Vilhelm Hammershøi. The intersections of old and new, rustic and fantastical, animate the designer’s work, which doesn’t neatly fit into a box. Over the past few years, he’s arrived at an individualistic style that’s largely defined by volume and a long line. He tends toward an extended or drop waist or focuses on a high crop, particularly for jackets that share proportions with the spencers worn by Jane Austen heroines. He favors wool and cotton for his handcrafted fabrics—which he combines with textures from store-bought or upcycled materials, most of them industrially made—and he often spins found fabrics into one-offs that inspire looks that can go into production. Both will be included in his debut.
Without going into details, Skovgaard says that he’ll do a runway presentation and that he’s keen to make the experience as personal as the clothes are. “This is my first show, so of course I want it to be as I want it to be. You need to step in and be like, Okay, this is the world of Skovgaard, somehow. I would be happy if someone would like to buy the stuff or wants to write about it, but in the end it’s like we are doing something together that feels like the right thing for me to do for this first show.”
