Pasta, polaroids and supermodels to celebrate A. Roege Hove’s International Woolmark Prize nomination

Yesterday evening, a gaggle of Danish models, stylists and editors (and a handful of international guests) slipped into slinky knitwear and crammed into Copenhagen hotspot Italo Disco. The occasion? Knitwear designer extraordinaire A. Roege Hove’s recent nomination for the prestigious International Woolmark Prize. It’s an occasion worth celebrating; if designer Amalie Roege Hove nabs the top prize, she stands to be awarded AU$200,000.

At one table, models Sarah Dahl, Nina Marker and Rebekka Eriksen snapped polaroids of one another, only pausing their impromptu shoot to sip on never-ending negronis. And on the other side of the cozy dining room, Copenhagen Fashion Week CEO Cecilie Thorsmark chatted animatedly with stylist Anders Soelvsten Thomsen, while Georg Jensen Creative Director Ragnar Hjartarson talked shop with Alpha founder Ane Lynge Jorlen. Plenty of A. Roege Hove models-slash-muses were in attendance – Maryam Ansari, Maria Lyduch and Ivy Khumalo among them – looking born to wear the designer’s clingy dresses and cardigans. “It feels like half of Stockholm is here,” Nuda Paper editor Frida Vega quipped (there were three of us).

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Fritto misto, burrata and, of course, buttery, too-good-to-be-true pasta was served. Yes, there was something magic in the air, but perhaps it was just because everyone in attendance was nearly naked. Following dessert, a handful of revellers headed to a dive bar down the street – still nearly naked – to keep the festivities going until the wee hours of the morning.

Though we’ll have to wait with bated breath to see if Roege Hove nabs the top prize, last night was certainly a winner. See the photos below.

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