While chatting with Ganni creative director Ditte Reffstrup at lunch on the first day of Copenhagen Fashion Week, the subject of American politics came up. She said, “I was in New York shortly after the election and I was feeling very depressed. It was a sad time even for me who is not from there—I wanted to make my Fall collection all about love.”
And there it was in her show, not only in the pink neon signs that decorated the runway and read “Love Society,” but also in the playfully cool clothes. Reffstrup opened with a plaid prairie dress layered over a striped knit and accessorized with red platform sneakers, setting up a collection that touched on several different but cohesive references, from ’90s grunge to American pastoral. Small touches added to each look made them that much more enjoyable, like the bows tied onto the straps of dark denim overalls, ruffles midway up a pin-striped sleeve, and hearts embroidered onto a cozy knit and an embellished minidress. As they say, love is in the details, and at Ganni there was a lot to go around.
