DATE: 10th August 2025. LOCATION: Politikens Hus, TIME: 18.30
Fashion is changing, and the graduates of The Royal Danish Academy aren’t waiting for permission — they’ve already started rewriting the rules. They don’t want to just make clothes. They want to start a movement.
Each collection is designed for people: complex, contradicting, authentic people and communities. The work deep dives into subcultures, identity politics, and shared lived experiences. They are not just designing around their audience — but with them in mind. It’s not about theory; it’s about making connections. And while the silhouettes are fresh and future-facing, they carry the weight of heritage. Exploring craft techniques passed down through generations, queer and cultural histories folded into fabric, statements on class, taste, and power stitched into the seams. It’s fashion as autobiographies, voices of protests and offerings.
I: James Cochrane
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Gay
Rooted in memory & material, my work reflects on the quite beauty of early queer expression, curtains as gowns, tassels as dolls, fabric as identity. I explore our softness, play and transformation shaped not just my past, but echo a shared queer childhood imagination.
Don't Come Empty Handed
Inspired by my style icons - my grandmothers & and her girlfriends, this project explores their electric style & love of celebration through the love of a birthday in a Southern Russian Village, By highlighting their presence, I am ain to challenge Eurocentric ideas of good taste and expand who is seen and valued in contemporary fashion.
Compartments of Function
My graduate collection explores how modular clothing design can enable menswear dressers in explorin and tailoring their wardrobes through functional elements. The project is reliant on technical pattern cutting and tailoring, reverse engineering the archetypical and familiar constructions of the modern blazer.
