Henrik Vibskov and You Wear it Well goes to Copenhagen

Dear Shaded Viewers,

A perfect entry into Copenhagen with Henrik Vibskov and Jon at the airport to greet me. They took me to my beautiful hotel with a view of the harbor and then we went out for dinner. On the way we stopped into a gallery opening and the first person that we saw was Laird Borrelli from Style.com followed minutes later by James Goldstein. If you are a regular shaded viewer you will remember I visited his amazing house on my last day in Los Angeles. We were happy that Laird joined us for dinner. Only later did I connect Laird Borrelli with all of the wonderful illustration books that she has written. Later Shoji and Mette Julie and Anna joined us. Many parties but I opted for the hotel.

Henrik, Shoji and Anna and Mette Julie met in the lobby of my hotel and we went to Henrik's favorite resto, Café Bankeraat, for brunch. The guy that owns and decorates the place is clearly a bit mad...and we loved it. This would have been the perfect atmosphere for You Wear it Well's oscar. It's really funny, by chance, Laird and her friend also appeared in Henrik's local haunt.

Shoji went off to prepare for his shoot while Henrik went to pick up some skins for his drums and to prepare for his performance at his show later in the night. Mette Julie and Anna took me around the warm and friendly Copenhagen. People are extremely good looking and smile and make you feel very welcome. I also like the architecture and of course the opportunity to spend time with the Prince of Denmark, Henrik, in his own town.

Mette Julie, Anna and I went off to visit Henrik's showroom and then Gallery, which is another showroom. Henrik celebrated his l0th collection this season, hence the x marks the l0.

Maja Brix, woman's wear designer for Henrik with Anna and Mette Julie. Danish accessory designer, Zarah Voigt. The crayon dress is made by newly graduated designer Matilde Botfeldt,
from Designschool Kolding.

Anna and Mette Julie took me to the V1 Gallery to see V-B an exhibition of an American artist collective Dearraindrop visiting Denmark for the first time with the exhibition V-B. The artists are Laurs Grant, Billy Grant and Joe Grillo from USA. They have already had solo exhibitions at Deitch Projects in NYC and Hanna Fushihara in Tokyo, etc. The work truly explodes when you look at it through 3D glasses.

Then we were off to Baum und Pferdgarten's show ( Rikke Baumgarten and Helle Hestehave.) and missed it so saw it from backstage.

We met up with the team from Vs magazine and the waiter managed to spill an entire hot chocolate all over me. Vs devoted 4 pages to a day in my life written and photographed by Metta Julie and Anna. I guess it was the hot chocolate that kept me from documenting this event.

Henrik has been playing music since his early teens and could play for 8 hours non stop. However he did not tonight. THe doors opened and the crowd never stopped coming, 2,300 that got in and about another 700 that did not. Shoji after the show, He's had no sleep in two days. Amdi aka My Private Dancer. I also got to meet Henrik's family and his brother who happens to be a Priest.

Henrik invited You Wear it Well to Copenhagen. Dino was dearly missed. I was thinking if there is anyone out there that wants to create a blow up doll of him for me so that when it is not possible for him to be with me for our co-curated You Wear it Well festival, I can at least blow him up so that he can physically be present.

Henrik had built a little tent house for the screening of the films. 'Diversity is a Form of Wealth' by SHOWstudio Nick Knight with Nigel Buck and Starring by Jeremy Scott.

Starring by Jeremy Scott and Portrait of a Consumer by DP, Henrik Vibskov 'Potatoe Project by Bjarni Einarsson and Myself by Marcelo Krasilcic.'The Bridegroom Stripped Bare' by SHOWstudio Nick Knight w/Alexander McQueen and 'People Call Me K' (with Kei Kagami) by Enamul Hoque & Matt Moate..

Around 1 am I went for a quiet drink with Shoji, Anna and Mette Julie before getting into a taxi to take me to my bed while they all went back to Henrik's party. I might add as the taxi passed in front of the show/party location there was still a huge long line of Henrik's fans trying to get in.

The plan was to go out in Henrik's boat today but it is raining again so that does not seem like an option. Henrik came to the hotel to pick me up to go for brunch and then we went to the little tent to count the ballots.

At first it was a tie between Starring by Jeremy Scott and Shoes by Liam Sullivan when Jon remembered someone that had forgotten to give him his ballot. We called thinking this could be the tie breaker but instead the vote was for The Bridegroom Stripped Bare by SHOWstudio Nick Knight w/Alexander McQueen. Then Henrik found two more ballots stuck in the bottom of the ballot box and the winner by one vote was 'Starring' by Jeremy Scott. After the count, Henrik watched Potato Project on my MacPro. This was the first chance he had to see it.


Vbs and his girlfriend Bbs.

Henrik and Christian take me to the airport with my new Henrik Vibskov computer bag with his signature digital pig print.
Loving my Copenhagen experience it is one of the cooler cities that I've ever travelled to.

Diane