Han Kjøbenhavn

Why it is renowned

Han Kjøbenhavn opened its first shop in the United States, in New York, in 2013, its first in France, in Paris, in 2015, and a flagship on Beak Street in London in 2022.¹² Its film for the Autumn/Winter 2012 collection won a bronze Lion at the Cannes Lions festival in 2013.³ Complex named it among the 15 best Scandinavian brands in 2013,⁴ and GQ listed it among the top Scandinavian menswear brands in 2014.² In 2022 it made the black leather dress, its collar shaped like a hand, that Julia Fox wore to the Vanity Fair Oscar party.⁵

The story

Jannik Wikkelsø Davidsen founded Han Kjøbenhavn in Copenhagen in 2008; it began with eyewear and moved into clothing later.¹ Its first flagship store is at Pilestræde 30 in central Copenhagen, and it shows at Copenhagen Fashion Week each February and August.¹

Today it makes men's and women's ready-to-wear with accessories, cut in sculptural shapes.⁶ In 2023 it bought out its investors and began selling small non-voting shares to its customers.¹

What to know it by

• Eyewear¹2008The line the house began with
• Autumn/Winter 2012 film³2012Collection film awarded a bronze Lion at Cannes Lions
• Julia Fox Oscars dress⁵2022discontinuedBlack leather dress with a collar shaped like a hand
• Han Kjøbenhavn X Mizuno⁷A collaboration with Mizuno in trail aesthetics