Sinéad O’Dwyer presents SS25 collection at CPHFW

Parading for the first time in Copenhagen as winner of the Zalando Visionary Award 2024, Irish designer Sinéad O’Dwyer presents her Spring/Summer 2025 collection, entitled Everything Opens To Touch.

The Opera Park, an outdoor space, is transformed into the seductive world of a hot summer dream, with sculptures based on 3D scans of Sinéad’s early works, created by artist Jade O’Belle, and sound by Witch Trials and Cosha, the latter reading a poem written exclusively for the show by London-based author Anastasiia Fedorova.

This sound element further immerses us in the inclusive world of the designer, who continues to create alongside her models and collaborators, including this season’s Alva Claire and musician Mahalia.

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For the second time, the brand collaborated with the Hair and Care Foundation to offer an experience during the show for blind and partially sighted people, this time through immersive audio descriptions and the distribution of fabric swatches that guests could touch throughout the show.

Hair and Care also championed the inclusion of a blind model and presenter, Lucy Edwards, who walked the catwalk with her guide dog – a first for CPH Fashion Week – and collaborated with the Danish Association of the Blind to invite blind and low vision people to experience the show.

O’Dwyer reimagines its iconic designs, such as shibari-inspired harnesses, with new short sleeves, micro-culottes with slanted ruffles and fitted shirts in new materials, featuring dark blue denim, to offer a refined yet casual take on long moonlit nights and endless summer days.

The brand has collaborated with Grounds Footwear to create a new version of its bubble-soled shoes, with lace-up uppers inspired by Irish dancing shoes, and a thong-style sandal. Savage X Fenty helps bring runway looks to life by providing lace underwear, which can be seen under layers of denim and fine wool. Ecco provides bags that O’Dwyer customises with his signature “Squiggle” stretch nylon.

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Lyrics to the poem by Anastasiia Fedorova:

In blue, I am carried
Deliciously
It is the perfect blue of deep water,
The white of crisp paper,
Or a sail.
I find my weight again, a pebble in your hand
Hard and smooth
Bare legs
Big trees in the distance.
The rich green
satin
with darkness pooling in its corners.

After a day of heat,
when everything discolours,
Suddenly,
Park after dark.
Small choreography of fingers
hard edge of denim
And everything opens
To touch

Your lustrous skin between elastic,
the body joyfully
Breathing
in the material –
and the material suggests
we have a party.
Electric light pools above your collarbone.
And to the light, I say,

Dress me up. Give me the uniform of your desire.
The fabric is so smooth, delicate
yet assertive
Co-ord of the night sky.
As it softly glows, above

The horizon expands
and the field we’re lounging on by extension – endless
We are cutting through the landscape, fast
Limbs on the grass touch,
An intimate communion,
with the little whisper of nature
That becomes a roar
You can only hear in the body
Because when everything is so alive
It demands to sing
through you

The future opens like a mouth
All the celebrations and kisses
And the bursting fruit
I can see it
for you
Let’s hang on for just one second
before it drops
like an avalanche
The curve of your neck as you reach for the drink
Like after laughter – that pleasurable pull of something
Invisible
Touch rustling through the grass
And then
We are
here

This season’s Copenhagen Fashion Week showcased a number of denim trends from Levi’s®.