Henrik Vibskov

Why it is renowned

In 2017 the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, showed a work and a performance by him in Everyday Life – Signs of Awareness, its exhibition for the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Denmark.¹ He has made costumes for the Oslo Opera House, the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Brussels opera.² In 2021 the Lillehammer Art Museum in Norway gave him its first fashion exhibition, with the costumes he designed for Alexander Ekman's A Swan Lake at the Norwegian Opera in 2014.³ From 18 September 2026 to 21 February 2027 Design Museum Denmark shows 25 years of his fashion, music, art and installation.⁴ His own shops are in Copenhagen, open since 2006, and New York, open since 2011.⁵ The Royal Danish Academy awarded him the Thorvald Bindesbøll Medal in 2016.⁶ His other awards include the Torsten and Wanja Söderberg Prize and the Crown Prince Couple's Culture Prize, and in 2025 the Danish Arts Foundation gave him its lifelong honorary grant.⁴ He received an Elle Style Award as brand of the year in 2020.² Vogue has covered his collections shown in Copenhagen since 2022.⁷

The story

Henrik Vibskov was born in Kjellerup, Jutland, in 1972 and graduated from Central Saint Martins in London in 2001.² Since then he has made more than fifty fashion collections.⁴ Each collection comes with a world built around it, and his practice runs from clothes to installations, performances and exhibitions.⁵ He is a professor at Design School Kolding.² As a drummer he has played with Hess Is More, Mikael Simpson and Trentemøller.⁴

What to know it by

• Henrik Vibskov Boutique, Copenhagen⁵2006Henrik VibskovThe first shop
• Henrik Vibskov Boutique, New York⁵2011Henrik VibskovThe second shop