Amager costume combining a mourning dress with a puffer jacket
Nicholas Nybro · 2023
Copenhagen, Denmark
Nicholas Nybro
- Conceptual costume
- Extravagant silhouettes
- Reworked folk dress
Nicholas Nybro trained at Design School Kolding and developed a practice spanning fashion, costume and conceptual exhibitions. His work uses humour and extravagant forms to examine the stories clothing tells about its wearers.
Nicholas Nybro. Author portrait published by Muusmann Forlag.
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Amager costume combining a mourning dress with a puffer jacket
2023
Reworks local folk dress with contemporary street clothing, central to Nybro’s conceptual practice.
Thomas Cato / Designmuseum Danmark
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Blue feathered sculptural outfit
2023
Sculpted volume gives this design its distinctive outline.
Thomas Cato / Designmuseum Danmark
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Voluminous white dress
2023
A representative dress that makes the designer’s approach to silhouette visible.
Thomas Cato / Designmuseum Danmark
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Multicoloured pleated ensemble
2023
Repeated folds build volume and visual rhythm through the design.
Thomas Cato / Designmuseum Danmark
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Grey patterned long dress — Look 4
Copenhagen Autumn/Winter 2016
A representative dress that makes the designer’s approach to silhouette visible.
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About Nicholas Nybro
For the museum project Proud, he travelled across Denmark and translated local histories, identities and everyday observations into contemporary regional costumes that challenge fixed ideas about traditional dress.