DATE: 10th August 2025. LOCATION: Politikens Hus, TIME: 18.30
W:Maximiliano Dubois
The Royal Danish Academy’s 2025 Graduate Fashion Show, held during Copenhagen Fashion Week, was far more than a display of technical skill—it was a manifesto. As you noted, these designers are no longer content with "theatricality" for the sake of it; instead, they are using the runway to launch a movement that prioritizes identity, shared lived experience, and ethical urgency.
The 2025 cohort proved that the "fresh and future-facing" silhouettes you mentioned are not empty shells. They are weighted with the responsibility of representing the underrepresented. This was a show where fashion acted as both a voice of protest and a cultural offering.
The tension between "wearability" and "conceptual art" still exists, but these graduates are moving toward a middle ground: Radical Inclusivity.
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.
