Baum und Pferdgarten’s creative directors Rikke Baumgarten and Helle Hestehave turned to the skies for inspiration for their fall 2026 collection, entitled Airborne. Never ones to shy away from a theme, the design duo turned the Østerbro athletics stadium into a makeshift airport runway, opening the show with a performance from a local girls’ choir, all wearing T-shirts printed with the words “Good girls fly to heaven, BP girls fly backstage.”
The designers were particularly influenced by the wardrobe of American pilot Amelia Earhart, and the contrast, as Hestehave put it in a preview, between her “mechanic workwear” and the “more sophisticated” looks she would wear for high society dinners and parties during the 1930s. The masculine side of Earhart’s wardrobe could be seen in the faux leather aviator jackets and matching trousers, utilitarian boiler suits, and the oversized herringbone outerwear. The more feminine side was found in the black velvet maxi dress, floral prints and faux fur collars.
While the flowery peplum dress might prove too kitschy for Baum und Pferdgarten’s younger audience, some of the collection’s most successful looks bridged the gap between masculine and feminine: see the simple checked shirt dress paired with a tan bomber jacket, and the chocolate brown leather jacket and matching midi-skirt.
Having one of the few veteran brands still on the schedule since Copenhagen fashion week first began 20 years ago, Baumgarten and Hestehave are practical in the way they design, creating with three main groups in mind: their long-standing clients, their core millennial fanbase, and the Gen-Z customers seeking newness. While this approach might be one of the reasons the brand’s latest collection didn’t fully take flight, it does mean there was something for everyone here.
