The biannual Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW) opened here Wednesday offering a mix of established and upcoming designers, and amid a slowdown in Danish fashion exports.
The current edition presents a total 45 runway shows with designers, mostly from Nordic countries, displaying their spring and summer collections for 2013.
Moreover, five fashion trade fairs are exhibiting clothes and accessories for adults and children, by some 2,600 brands from Scandinavia and Europe.
"Our key specialty is our broad mix of major labels along with a collection of smaller, younger talents," said CFW CEO Eva Kruse when launching the week at the Carlsberg Museum in downtown Copenhagen.
Big name brands showing collections this week include Stine Goya, Noa Noa and sportswear giant Adidas, while new design talent Freya Dalsjo made her runway debut presenting the CFW opening show.
Some 50,000 fashion professionals including buyers and designers are expected to attend the event, whose purpose is to showcase the best in Nordic fashion and boost the Danish fashion industry.
"The fashion week has glamour and parties, but it is also an international trade fair, a showcase for a business which has grown in times which are extremely difficult," said Danish Economy Minister Margrethe Vestager at the launch.
"(Danish fashion) is a business which has potential, and has shown great progress in enabling growth at a time when we have been extremely challenged," she added.
Fashion is Denmark's fourth-biggest export business, and has grown despite the global financial crisis, largely owing to export-led growth. The clothing industry, excluding textiles and furs, earned 24 billion Danish kroner (around 4 billion U.S. dollars) in exports, out of total revenues of 26 billion kroner (4.3 billion dollars), in 2011.
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