Overwhelming success with Fashion for Charity
WOW!
At the charity event 200 visitors had the opportunity to buy clothes from previous collections in the Fashion for Charity shop. The clothes had been donated by exhibitors, and all profits from the entrance fee and sale in the shop has been entirely donated to the Danish organization Børnehjælpsdagen.
The shop was open to professionals all four days, and to the public for two hours on Sunday. The shop sold for a total of 85,000 Danish kroner, and took home christmas gifts for many years ahead!
- It is important for us to show that fashion can make a difference to our society. At the last fair, we sold clothes in the favor of the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. This time our ambition has been to help Børnehjælpsdagen. It’s been inspiring to see how many, both exhibitors and visitors who wanted to back up the initiative, explains Lone Holm.
Pictures from the fair
Creativity in TAP1
During the last month, the artist collective We Do Voodoo have been working behind the scenes of Cph Kids fashion fair creating visual frames for the fair. Large kites, black icons in different actions, neckstraps and a lot of unique signs to guide guests and exhibitors around in the big hall, TAP1.
“It has been great working with so many squaremeters. Creating the scenography in the context of kids”, “A fun challenge, and we are happy about the result” says Carina Juul and Rasmus Vest, the founders of We Do Voodoo.
We Do Voodoo works in all kinds of media, materials and formats. Right now they are finishing the styling and visual identity of PRAG Genbrug – a new big vintage store on Vesterbrogade (opening 17th of August from 17 – 21).
You can meet Rasmus and Carina all days of the fair. Among other things, you can get your hands on unique icon-folies, order your own customized icon, collage or illustration for your shop or home.
Creativity in Tap. 1 – We Do Voodoo in action - http://wedovoodoo.dk/
First day was a success
At 10 am sharp we opened the doors to the second edition of CPH kids! And we were happy to see so many early birds at the fair.
Even though it has rained pretty much all day, people hang out in the gardens and here at the main entrance.
All of the fantastic donations displayed in the Charity-shop…it looks pretty good when you know that we worked untill long after midnight!
A celebrity visit from actor and singer Søren Bregendahl, who is an ambassador for Børnehjælpsdagen. All proceeds from the charity shop is donated to Børnehjælpsdagen, who is running the shop for us during the fair. Please drop by if you can – there’s still a lot of goodies!
Guest photographer Timm Vladimir in action shooting kids (with the camera that is…)
at the Live Photo Sessions. Drop by to see the result of his work.
Maise Njor at the speakers area at the café, in the middle of her hilarious
speak about childhood traumas caused by fashion trends in th 70′s.
Our CPH kids mini shuttle getting ready to drive a visitor from Barcelona back to his hotel. We love service!
Only wish I had a personal driver now when I need to walk home in the rain.
A glimpse of the lovely girls in our Expo Office.
I hope you all had a great first day of fashion week – I know I did! Can’t wait for tomorrow to come.
Photographs by Mike Hornbogen (and some from Sarah’s Iphone:-))
Princesses for a day – charity event
Yesterday these threee little ladies had the time of their life, when CPH kids’ exhibitors Holly’s, Småfolk, Molo and bisgaard gave them a completely new wardrobe.
As a part of the Fashion for Charity initiative CPH kids and Børnehjælpsdagen (Childrens Aid Foundation) arranged a charity event where Sahra, Mitzy and Marie was invited to indulge in their new wardrobe.
“- It’s almost as cool as the time I met the Crown Princess, says Sahra, aged 9. She refers to the time she was chosen as flower girl for Princess Mary’s visit to the Child Welfare Day. Today, Sahra is the princess, even though it’s just for one day.
Designer outfits is something that the three girls do not have access to in their everyday lives. The girls are all living with foster families – like 15,000 other Danish children. And while the girls have wonderful foster families with security and care enough, the money is short when it comes to entertainment and clothing.
The girls were busy for an entire hour trying on new out fits, while their foster moms were trying to keep up with them.
One messy fitting room!
Photographer Timm Vladimir, ambassador for The Childrens Aid Foundation, had the girls posing like real models.
And WOW! they were just so good at posing!
Favorite outfits were chosen. And we heard that the fittings continued at home, with catwalks infront of the rest of the family.
Sahra ready to leave after a fantastic afternoon. As she said, her biggest problem was which outfit to chose next day in school.
Thanks to everyone who made this day happen! And please go to the website of The Childrens Aid Foundation to see how easily your company can help Danish children have their dreams come true – via the Dreambank (Drømmebanken).
You can also support The Childrens Aid Foundation when visiting CPH kids, all proceeds from the Charity Shop will be donated til the organization. So remember to shop a little! (how hard can that be…:-))
Behind the scenes – exhibitor get in
Arghhh we are so close now. Today we opened the doors for our wonderful exhibitors. And we were so happy to see all of them: the ones from last time, some of the new ones coming directly from Iceland, the busy ones who finished their entire booth already, the hard working guys and the ones who brought os candy:-)
Tana from Småfolk is preparing one of the biggest booths of CPH kids.
The finishing touches is done ‘on location’.
Illustrator frk. bukh is busy preparing her wall with live-illustrations.
Michael from the production team posing with balloons…afterall it is a kids fair!
Specially designed accessories from WeDoVoodoo - the creative team behind the little figurines you’ll find at the fair. They’re called ‘friends’, eve thought they can seem a bit scary.
The girls are trying to make a system for all of the donations from our exhibitors! We are SO SO SO thankful to see how many things we have already received.
A load of donations from Louis Louis
YAY!!! there’s boots in my size as well! A good excuse to donate money to charity…while buying Hunter rubber boots.
…hmmm not so fashion’ish, the team eating pizza’s in a short break at night.
When it comes to clothes, you cannot lie to your children!
A column by Maise Njor – Danish bestselling author.
Experience maise Njor live at CPH kids – Friday and Saturday. see the program >>here.
My mother has lied to me. I remembered it the other day when I was talking to my childhood friend Margit. All of a sudden we were talking about when we both took riding lessons, we both had riding boots that were too small, and I guess our mothers had been talking to each other … In any case, both our mothers succeeded in making their daughters believe that the absolute hippest in horse girl fashion was wearing a pair of strange leather slippers on your riding boots. It was in winter, it was cold, and we didn’t have room for ski socks in the boots. So our mothers sewed toe warmers that you could wear outside your riding boots. In sheepskin. Fastened around the heel with underpants elastic.
It was only the other day when I was talking to Margit that we realized that it was in fact strange that we were so much ahead of all other trendsetters at the riding school that they couldn’t keep up with us. Or wanted to … For we must have looked like idiots when we trudged around at the school with a quarter of a sheep on each foot …
But I have also lied to my mother in the name of fashion. It was in the 80s, it was summer, and fashion dictated – right after Wham had seen the light of day, I am sure – that you had to wear very tight white Levi’s. So tight that Levi’s couldn’t keep up … So you had to go to Deres, pay a fortune for your white Levi’s, and then go home and take the legs in. Now, on this particular day it happened that Margit had a very important and exciting story to tell, so I was a bit inattentive when I cut the legs, with the result that when I put on the pants, I looked like someone who had both legs in plaster.
Necessity is, as you know, the mother of invention, and, for the poor schoolgirl, of lying, so now that I had just spent my savings on the pants and couldn’t afford another pair, I decided that I had to get them exchanged.
I didn’t dare to do it myself, so I asked my mother. Without telling her that I had taken in the legs to a size that would fit an earthworm … My excuse was that I needed them one size larger, and not until several years later did I get around to telling her what I had been up to. With the result that she never got anything exchanged for me since … But I guess the score is leveled …
More pictures from the showmovie
You’ll be able to enjoy all the georgous kids in our show movie as well.
Photos are taken by our house photographer Mike Hornbogen and Mark Thyrring.
Mike Hornbogen will also be taking pictures during the fair – which will all be posted in our online gallery at cphkids.dk
Trendy kids blogs
We love blogs!
….and especially we love blogs on kids fashion!
Time for business
Do you know the two blogs www.BabyBusiness.dk (0-2 years) and www.JuniorBusiness.dk (3-10 years)?
Here blogger Anette Tvedergaard Madsen and her team of sharp writers, gives a lot of tips and trends for children. The trendy moms in Denmark can find cool guides and articles inhere.
You can join their popular newsletter and receive all the great stuff in your mailbox! They are full of inspiration. And ofcourse BabyBusiness.dk and JuniorBusiness.dk will cover fashion week with lots of exciting news from CPH kds.
Special offer for CPH kids exhibitors
If you are an exhibitor at CPH kids you have a unique chance to get advitorial mention on either babybusiness.dk or juniorbusiness.dk
See the special offer >>here.
Other cool blogs…
We also recommend the kid’s wear blog >>here, My Berlin Fashion blog >>here and our guestblogger KoldHunter >>here.
Backstage at the show movie
The last few days our office has been full of kids, friends og the house and child models from our partner 1kid.
If you ever need a child model you should pay a visit to their site www.1kid.dk - where you can find some of the best child models in Denmark.
We have build up a studio in TAP1, and has an entire crew of runners, stylists, photgraphers and cameramen running around – not to forget all the mom’s working on keeping all kids happy and clean. (How cruel is it to not allow kids to eat candy while dressed ind the pretty garments from our exhibiting brands?…)
The girls taking a break from posing:-)
Sofia posing in a Smallwings dress. 3 years old – and already she has wroked out her ‘signature look’.
Cool guys posing in between filming.
Luckily the kids can play around during the shoots…our aim has been to make a very natrual and fun movie, simple but aesthetic.
We hope you’ll like the final movie. it will be shown all days during the fair.
Prices excl VAT of 25% are: 2.500 DKK sign up fee, 1.300 DKK per m2, 50 DKK/m2 marketing fee
Prices include basic lighting (3 spots/9m2), parkingcard for duration of the fair and set-up/dismantling, tickets for buyers, staff access, possibility for exposure in our wide marketing approach.
