CARO EDITIONS SS26 : UNDER THE BRIDGE: A WEDDING, A CITY, A LOVE LETTER

Some runways are built for spectacle. Caro Editions built theirs under Knippelsbro, the Copenhagen bridge where founders Caroline and Frederik Bille Brahe got married. Yes, under the bridge, in the concrete shadows, where steel beams frame the water and cobblestones hum with history.

Back then, they boarded a tourist boat with friends and floated through the city’s canals. This time, the boat has been replaced by a different kind of love procession: a wedding party you never knew you wanted to be invited to.

The mood: memory meets soft resistance

"Under the Bridge" is not just about nostalgia: it’s about intimacy, visibility, and the quiet kind of protest that happens when beauty takes over a raw, public space. Inspired by Yoko Ono’s Brides on Tour, Caroline reframes the bride as not tradition-bound, but as an activist, a carrier of feeling, a public presence.

It’s romantic and industrial, private and performative. You can smell the city’s salt air while someone in silk drifts past steel beams.

One guest, clutching a prosecco, muttered, “It’s giving wedding… but also revolution,” and honestly? That’s exactly it.

The clothes: glamour you can live in

The collection plays with vintage silks, polka dots, and checks, plus something new for Caroline: black. Rich silks are cut into almost workwear shapes, creating a delicious contradiction: comfort and ease meeting unapologetic glamour.

Think flowing dresses trailing like veils, hand-embroidered love letters stitched into hems, and fabrics that feel lifted straight from a trunk of wedding keepsakes. Some silhouettes are pure romance, others feel like the friend who turns up to a wedding in trousers and still manages to outshine the bride.

The Bride: Down to Earth, Lace Hoodie Included

In true Caro spirit, the finale bride wasn’t in stilettos. She wore a lace hoodie, a silk windbreaker, and custom Crocs: ready to dance all night without blisters. It’s not anti-glamour, it’s redefining glamour: the confidence to be completely yourself in the middle of a very dressed-up crowd.

The mulberry collaboration: history rewritten

For Caroline, a Mulberry bag was once a symbol of cool: something you borrowed from your mum for a night out and hoped you wouldn’t spill on. Now, she’s reworked vintage Mulberry pieces into eight one-of-a-kind bags.

Silk bows, visible checked linings (no longer hidden inside), playful embroidery, appliqués that make you smile: each bag is a collision of heritage and whimsy. It’s upcycling, yes, but also storytelling: giving storied objects a second life without erasing their past.

The soundtrack: from wedding fragments to euphoria

Composer Frederik Valentin scored the show with a punk/pop soundscape that felt like a memory unfolding: wedding-day fragments dissolving into melody, building toward something emotional, even euphoric.

It wasn’t background music: it was the pulse of the show. At one point, the bass dropped just as a silk gown caught the wind, and someone near the front row whispered, “They planned that, right?” Whether they did or not, it worked.

Caro Editions: The Essence

Founded in 2022, Caro Editions lives between the spontaneous and the sentimental: the place where community, colour, and individuality meet. Caroline avoids the “Caro girl” cliché entirely. Instead, she wants people to take a piece of Caro into their own world, not to enter hers as pre-defined characters.

Many garments are made from deadstock luxury fabrics: Chanel, Dries Van Noten, Harris Twee; transformed in the Borgergade atelier into pieces that feel both playful and deeply personal.

Final impression

Caro Editions SS26 is a wedding party without rules. A love letter to Copenhagen, to marriage, to the quiet power of showing up together in full colour.

It’s lace hoodies under bridges, Crocs on cobblestones, Mulberry bags with cheeky bows, and dresses you can wear long after the bouquet has been thrown. It’s not about the perfect picture: it’s about the moment, the memory, and the person wearing it.

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