Addicted to Fashion

Addicted to fashion? Well, some people just can't help it. Above: Lovely hat and superb stylish informality. Below, more green with matching sun glasses and beads.




No reason to leave that beautiful scarf at home just because its summer.



Cool 20's jail house pants.



Soft leather and light grey blazer.



Happy Cycling!

Jackets Out In Mid-August!

Oh dear. The drizzle has come back to Copenhagen and it's not even the end of summer yet! On the plus side, at least we can justify getting those sexy jackets back out!

Soften a creased black leather jacket with a cashmere scarf wrapped round the neck. Very cute!


Bring some edge to an otherwise very neat look. Don't be afraid to wear the suede.


Here's Unnur from Iceland rockin' her look by teaming a geometric printed dress with a clean-cut leather jacket. Nice one.

Hopefully the rest of the summer has more in store for us... otherwise it's time to put away the denim summer jackets and out with the leather and suede!

Over and Out!

K.E.G. x

Infrastructure

Catwalk. Bike Lane. Sidewalk.

Cheap, Cheerful and Mainstream

Another sure sign that bicycles are going mainstream. Spanish ZARA features bicycles on their cheap and cheeful t-shirts.



And Swedish H&M gets in on the act, too. Complete with spelling mistakes in the small print.

Bicycles at London Fashion Week

The Bicycle Renaissance rolls on. Bicycle featured in this catwalk show at the London Fashion Week. The bicycles are from Rule Bikes.

The fashion industry embraced Cycle Chic shortly after the blog started and it's reassuring to see that they aren't tiring of them after over four years. Good for returning the bicycle to the urban landscape.

Cosmopolitan has a write up about the catwalk show here. It was, they say, the first time bicycles appeared on the catwalk during London Fashion Week.

The bicycle is all over the place. Fancy a bicycle print handkerchief? Designer Alice Nichol has one for you. A penny farthing necklace? Bottica will help you out. A blouse with a bicycle print? Check out ASOS for one of those.

Bike is still the new black.

Milan Fall/Winter 2012

Men's fashion week at Bottega Veneta and inspired style from the streets of Copenhagen.


Corneliani's theme for this season - The Great Gatsby - highlights a style which is increasingly relaxed, confident and unstructured while still observing tradition. A well paired combination of elegance and personal style that is also very present in Copenhagen.

Cycle Chic & Muuse.com - Match Made in Heaven

Readers may recall the post about Cycle Chic's film shoot with Muuse.com from a while back. We're pleased to finally be able to present the film we made in collaboration with Muuse.

We shot it out at Amager Beach in Copenhagen a couple of months ago. It was a chilly day but we are pleased that the film has a hint of summer to it.

For us at Cycle Chic, Muuse is the perfect playmate. Not only are we good friends socially and professionally, the whole concept of Muuse is appealing to us. The fashion industry is hopelessly unsustainable. Big companies produce piles of clothes and, if they don't get sold, they are shredded and thrown away. Muuse features top young designers and customers can order the outfits on their website. When a certain number of orders are reached, Muuse puts the outfit into production. Ethically and locally.

The designs chosen for the film are all harmonious with the bicycle and go hand in hand with the inherent aestheticism of the two-wheeled machine. Bike geeks will bang on about goofy "cycling clothes" with reflective bits and pieces or "urban cycling trousers" (we've been riding bicycles for a century without needing them) but we'll just send you to this blogpost for our point of view about this. And while we're at it, this little film explains why we prefer to be citizens who use bicycles to get around instead of "cyclists".

Anyway... these outfits are haute couture, sure, but we love them for their flowing fabric movement. Bicycles, by their very nature, create a movement of air around us. Designs that accentuate and compliment this natural flow of air add to the appealing nature of seeing Citizen Cyclists on bicycles. Not surprisingly, we filmed the bicycle shots from a Nihola cargo bike. And thanks to Velorbis for loaning us the bicycles used by our model.

The designs used in the film are by Linda Vasel, Nathalie Fordeyn and Laura Baruël - three designers collaborating with Muuse.com.



Director: Mikael Colville-Andersen / Cycle Chic
Cinematographer: Theis Mortensen
Model: Maria Bloch-Jørgensen
Styling: Muuse.com

Muuse.com

Betina Lou & Bicycles

Betina Lou Spring Summer 2012 from Betina Lou on Vimeo.

Montreal brand Betina Lou has lovely bicycles in this ad/video! Cool.

Cycle Chic Meets Muuse.com

Cycle Chic has teamed up with our friends at Muuse.com to make a film combining Muuse's brilliant fashion with Cycle Chic's eye for bicycles. We headed out to one of the many beaches around Copenhagen last Friday to shoot and here are some of the still photos from the day. Thanks to Velorbis for the bicycles, too.

It was a brilliant day. A little chilly, if you ask us, but our model Maria is a viking and she put on a brave face. We wrapped her in fur and blankets between every take and took good care of her. Most of the shooting featured many of Muuse's creations from their talented designers but we always included some classic Cycle Chic bicycle ridin'. Of course we did. We couldn't live without it.


Muuse.com has also written about the behind the scenes action from the film shoot over at their blog.








It goes without saying that when we did the mobile shots, we used a cargo bike from Nihola. Mikael rode the trike and Theis, the cinematographer, sat in the box.

Right then... we'd better get started editing the film. Keep your eyes on this space. It's coming soon. Well... kind of soon. Soonish.

Catwalk to Copenhagen: London Fashion Week

As our runway to street style posts typically go, we've got the designer's designs on the left, and our translation on the right. This time, with a big thank you to EcoSalon for the photos, we've got the Tour de Fashion designer bikes. Bicycles that we think the models on the left would look stunning on.

White feathers at Ralph Lauren and Kaelen.

Catwalk to Copenhagen: New York Fashion Week

The last from New York Fashion Week- above some floaty inspiration from Adam.

Ruffles at Ruffian.

Candela and a splash of yellow on our urban landscape.

Tour de Fashion

We always look forward to the excitement and inspiration surrounding New York Fashion Week, and this year is no exception. A little something called Tour de Fashion, where you can borrow a designed-by-designers bicycle for free, though has got us a little extra buzzed about this year's fashion week. Here is an example of one of the bicycles, designed by Diane von Furstenberg:
Just for fun, we wanted to see if the designers' themes for the runway are apparent in the bikes.

They are. Two lovely designs from Rebecca Taylor. Snakeskin, shades of cream and lavender, and a bit of floral for her Spring 2012 Collection.

But what really got us double-shot-of-espresso ready to go this morning was the most recent post from Tour de Fashion. The one where you can read this:

"New Yorker Elizabeth Marquez smiles for the Tour de Fashion camera as she tells us how she plans to buy her own bike once Tour de Fashion is over. We knew she looked familiar…she’s ridden the TDF bikes four times and counting. She had never ridden in NYC before this week and now she’s hooked."

Brilliant. Beautiful. If any of you lovely readers have bicycle photos from fashion week, and want to send them to info@copenhagenize.eu, we would love to see them.

Catwalk to Copenhagen: New York Fashion Week

Catwalk to Copenhagen: New York Fashion Week

Thank goodness for New York Fashion Week, we've needed a little color to brighten up our rainy Copenhageny autumn. Enter BCBGMAXAZRIA and some of their brilliant color block designs for Spring 2012. Here are a few from their runway, translated to Cycle Chic street wear.

Cycle Chic & Conceito Brand

Cycle Chic - according to Conceito Brand.

Catwalk to Copenhagen: Paris Couture Week III

The last of our Paris Couture week Cycle Chic match ups, this is from Alexis Mabille.


Jean Paul Gaultier and pleated suits.


Jean Paul Gaultier and duvet capes.


Giambattista Valli and white billowy capes.


Giambattista Valli and red dresses.


Giambattista Valli and Cycle Chic

Catwalk to Copenhagen: Paris Couture Week

More from Paris Couture week, lovely splashes of Chanel purple.


Armani Privé matched with bouquet bicycle.


Armani Privé, "It is so wild."