Discover your inner designer at Fashion Week

Nanna Østerby

Here are our top three picks for the dedicated followers of fashion out there at the ongoing Copenhagen Fashion Festival this weekend.

Family Workshop: Fashion sketches
Sun Feb 7, 13:00-16:00; Designmuseum Denmark, Bredgade 68, Cph K; 20kr; designmuseum.dk

Explore the fashion design process and try some of the methods yourself.

This workshop will give you a unique insight into the thoughts of a designer and the secrets of fashion sketching.

During the workshop, you will create your own sketches with inspiration from the museum exhibition Fashion and Fabric.

Afterwards you have the opportunity to discover your inner fashion designer and realise your sketches via textiles, feathers, denim, pearls, buttons, pens, clippings and many more materials.

Street dance Show
Sat Feb 6, 14:00-17:00; A pair, Ny østergade 68, Cph. K; free adm

Don’t miss this event at A pair in the city centre where the talented dancers from Mizz Understood will perform exclusive street dance shows at 14:30 and 16:00. Enjoy drinks, snacks and tunes by DJ Flip.

Fashion cinema: ‘Fresh dressed’
Sat Feb 6, 16:00; Magasin, Kong Hans Salen, Kongens Nytorv 13, Cph K; free adm, reserve tickets via Magasin.nemtilmeld.dk/211

Come and watch the screening of the US 2015 documentary Fresh dressed, which charts the rise of hip-hop fashion since the 1970s. (NØ)

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