Interview

Henrik Vibskov: Not the Boys Next Door
 
The boys in Danish designer Henrik Vibskov's show had their faces covered in Cousin It blonde bobs, wore black metal nose caps and propellers on their heads, but underneath it all they're just regular guys. His  shows always have an installation component, and this season two men were covered head-to-toe in fringed body stockings, operating two giant size umbrellas that opened and closed at the start of the runway as though they were drawing in the models from some distant point in outer space. Once you get past all the staging, the collection is full of the kinds of sporty basics young men like to wear: pinstripe overalls, cape-like shirts and parkas, a great cardigan in an abstract jacquard pattern, riding trousers cropped at the knee and bright sweaters with a shadow pattern scary animal head which if it could speak would probably say something like: "Boo!'