Nicklas Skovgaard Turns The Girl Group Into A Fashion Fantasy

For Collection 13, Nicklas Skovgaard looked back to the girl groups of the 1960s and found something more interesting than nostalgia: a blueprint for belonging. Inspired by The Supremes, The Shangri-Las, and The Ronettes, the Copenhagen designer imagined his own fictional collective, The Skovgaardettes, and built the Spring/Summer 2027 collection around the idea that femininity can be both communal and deeply individual. Presented in a Nordhavn parking lot, the show began with the imagined groups arriving together in vintage cars before stepping onto the runway, turning the presentation into something between a fashion show, a music video, and a piece of pop mythology.

Three Girls, Three Looks, One Universe

The collection was organized into miniature wardrobes of three looks, with each trio developing its own combination of color, material, and silhouette. Gingham opened the sequence, appearing as both structure and decoration, before the collection softened into crisp taffeta in powder blue, pale pink, and soft grey, eventually blooming into pastel floral jacquards. Circular-cut skirts pulled attention toward the waist, giving familiar feminine silhouettes a sculptural quality without making them feel rigid. Skovgaard's pleasure comes from these contrasts: romance against practicality, sweetness against structure, polish against something slightly mischievous.

That tension carried through the styling. HOFF sneakers returned as an unexpected counterpoint to the more dressed-up silhouettes, while HVISK bags helped distinguish each imagined group, including an oversized clasp design created by Skovgaard in exclusive collection colors. Makeup by Miild, developed with lead artist Marie Thomsen, reworked the graphic beauty language of the 1960s without turning it into costume.

Fashion's Version of a Band

The girl group concept extended beyond clothing through a collaboration with Danish music platform Brodie Sessions. True Blue, the musical project of Maya Laner, performed live during the presentation, effectively giving The Skovgaardettes a soundtrack of their own. The casting by Emma Matell and movement direction by Britt Liberg further pushed the show toward performance, making the models feel less like individual bodies displaying clothes and more like members of a deliberately constructed world.

There is something quietly radical about the premise. Girl groups have historically been built around the tension between sameness and distinction: everyone belongs to the same image, but everyone needs a recognizable identity within it. Skovgaard takes that contradiction and makes it the collection's emotional center. "This collection is about the power of belonging while still insisting on individuality," he says. Collection 13 understands that the fantasy of the girl group was never simply about looking alike. It was about finding your people, then figuring out how to shine among them.