Holzweiler’s ‘Preservation’ Marks A Poetic Homecoming To Copenhagen
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Sixteen years after first stepping onto the Copenhagen runway, Holzweiler returns not simply with a collection, but with a reflection.
For Autumn/Winter 2026, titled Preservation, the Oslo-founded label reclaims Copenhagen Fashion Week as both stage and symbol. While the brand’s roots are Norwegian, it was Copenhagen that catalyzed its international ascent. This season marks the homecoming of its physical runway shows—an emotional recalibration at a time when fashion often prioritizes velocity over meaning.
“Coming back to Copenhagen Fashion Week feels very personal to us,” says Co-Founder and Creative Director Maria Skappel Holzweiler. “Copenhagen is where our international journey first took shape. Returning here feels like more than just showing a new season—it feels like coming back to an important chapter of our story.”
Designing For What Remains
If Spring/Summer ’26 centered on tablescaping and communal gathering, Autumn/Winter ’26 considers what happens after the guests leave. Preservation, here, is not nostalgia—it is stewardship.
Across womenswear and menswear, silhouettes wrap and protect. Fabrics drape rather than constrain. Layers fold with intention, evoking archival practices of care and concealment. The collection explores the quiet aftermath of shared experience: the calm after a dinner party, the objects left behind, the emotional residue of time spent together.
Holzweiler translates this sensibility into material innovation. New fabrications and tactile textures underscore durability and versatility—garments designed to be lived in, not simply observed. In a cultural moment defined by uncertainty, preservation becomes both aesthetic and ethic: an argument for longevity over spectacle.
Architecture As Memory
The show will unfold inside Vandflyverhangaren, a former seaplane hangar reimagined by Danish architect Dorte Mandrup as a creative hub. This marks the first time the space has hosted a fashion show—an apt setting for a collection concerned with memory and transformation.
Large, soft curtains will inhabit the industrial architecture, while a considered light composition by Jesper Kongshaug turns the cavernous venue into an immersive, almost cinematic environment. The result positions the space itself as a vessel—holding past, present and possibility in suspension.
A Collective Return
Holzweiler’s runway return is also a reunion. Creative direction is once again led by Moon, nodding to the brand’s earliest collaborative chapter. Styling by Fran Burns and casting by Madeline Østlie reinforce the show’s human focus: strong, individual characters assembled into a unified narrative.
Maria Skappel Holzweiler
Further grounding the collection in Scandinavian craftsmanship, Holzweiler partners with fellow Norwegian institution Magnor Glassverk to explore glassware—an extension of the preservation theme into object design and domestic ritual.
The runway presentation on January 28, 2026 will be followed by an intimate celebratory dinner for talent, family and community—a gesture consistent with the brand’s ongoing meditation on gathering, memory and care.
In an industry often defined by reinvention, Holzweiler’s Autumn/Winter ’26 collection suggests a quieter ambition: not to discard what came before, but to protect it. Preservation, in this context, becomes less about holding onto the past and more about honoring the values—collaboration, craftsmanship and community—that allow a brand to endure.
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