FASHION’S GREAT DANES

THE early Bank Holiday threw me completely. Plans landed on me a week earlier than I was expecting – lucky it’s not 2002, or I would have been a week late for Creamfields!

The final Bank Holiday of the year is always a highlight, but the realisation quickly hits that there won’t be another free holiday until Christmas. Don’t despair though, summer doesn’t officially end until September 23, and thanks to global warming, our seasons are all over the place anyway.

The last few Septembers have been more than ambient temperature-wise, so it isn’t quite time to put the heating on yet, which is a very good thing as I am only just getting started testing out the fashion I spotted at a very sunny Copenhagen Fashion

Week.

If this masterclass in eclectic dressing has passed you by, get following some of the Danish influencers on social media – it will be a revelation, what the Danes don’t know about spotting a trend isn’t worth knowing, but, unlike how trends play out elsewhere and we start to see an army of the same style, in Copenhagen, you can tell the individuals apart. They offer a ‘how to’ in wearing clashing prints and oversized dresses and it’s all a far cry from the monochrome, muted Scandinavian style we adopted in the early to mid-Noughties inspired by Swedish brand Acne.

Labels having a huge moment, such as Ganni, Gestuz and Stine Goya, are all of Nordic descent and their influence can be seen all over the high street.

Chances are, you are already shopping trends that started at Ganni without even realising it.

Any fashionista worth her Vogue subscription has already snapped up their gingham seersucker dress. As for the return of the cowboy boot, that has been inspired by the rodeo boots the #gannigirls have been wearing for seasons.

When a brand has got its own hashtag you know you should be paying attention.

Make mine a Danish: pleated satin dress £170, Boots £519, Ganni, ganni.com