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CPHFW: Collina Strada Refuses to Blend In

Last night, Collina Strada made its Copenhagen Fashion Week debut, becoming the first US label to appear on its official schedule. Hillary Taymour’s unruly, irreverent world may seem an unusual fit for a city associated with restraint and considered design, but the two begin from a similar place: a belief that environmental responsibility should shape fashion without limiting its imagination. Collina Strada arrived speaking that shared language in its own unmistakable way, through humor, contradiction, color and a refusal to behave too neatly.

For the show, Submission Beauty stepped into that world for the first time. Led by Zenia Jaeger, glitter was applied directly to the body in irregular splashes, translucent smears and unexpected collisions of color. Rather than neatly completing the collection, the makeup introduced friction and new possibilities for each character. What followed was a shared experiment in how far glitter could be pushed, and how strange beauty could become without losing its intention.

PHOTOGRAPHY MACS ABENTE GAYDOU @_________macs____iiiii
STYLING JOEL TRAPTOW @joeltraptow
HAIR  EUGENE SOULEIMAN @eugenesouleiman @streetersagency
MAKEUP ZENIA JAEGER ​​@makeupbyzeniajaeger @streetersagency using @submission.beauty
CASTING LIZ GOLDSON @lizgoldson_casting @streetersagency
PRODUCTION INTER.AGCY @inter.agcy 
PR LINDSEY SOLOMON @lindseypsolomon @lindseymedia & @spaltprcph
COMPOSER @haha2k26 
MAKEUP ASSISTANTS ELISAVET PAPATHANASIOU @elisart.makeup JUHO LEHIO @lehiojuho NICKY RUISCH @facesbynicky NICOLE BERARDI @blackdragonfly___ SANDY ALFARES @bysandyalfares SIGURVIEG THORMUNDSDOTTIR @sigurveig_
SPECIAL THANKS @theclimatepledge @cphfw

The beauty for the show grew from a shared understanding that glitter does not need to be polished, precious or predictable. Hillary Taymour, Zenia Jaeger and Eugene Souleiman approached the collection from different disciplines, but with the same instinct: to let beauty complicate the clothes, sharpen the characters and leave room for something less resolved.

The strength of the casting gave that idea room to expand. Rather than imposing a single character across the lineup, hair and makeup approached each person as their own starting point, responding to what was already there and allowing individuality to remain visible.

Across the skin and hair, color and texture were allowed to remain loose, layered and slightly unruly. The makeup moves across the body with the force of a gesture, not entirely finished, while the hair pushed that same energy into shape, surface and movement. Each decision added another point of tension, carrying Collina Strada’s sense of humor and disorder into a beauty language of its own.

“I love when beauty pushes a look somewhere unexpected. The makeup should create tension and shouldn't just match the clothes. I want people to wonder about the character they're looking at, not just the outfit they're wearing.”
- Hillary Taymour, founder and creative director, Collina Strada

“The body is treated like a painting, but instead of paint, we’re using glitter - thick splashes, smears, and swipes across the skin. It isn’t even or perfectly placed. It has to feel spotty, like someone took a really large paintbrush to the body. The colors don’t necessarily match the outfits or one another. Hillary really wanted to fuck things up, go over the top, and make it playful.”
- Zenia Jaeger, key makeup, Submission Beauty 

“I had this book about the Hubble camera that NASA has, where they shot galaxies, planets, and universes, with gas and sprinklings of iridescence. I thought, why don’t we treat the hair as if it were a landscape, but an astral landscape, where there are gases around planets, sparkles, and really bright colors? What I love about looking at those images is that they’re very organic. They’re not regimented or so graphic.”
- Eugene Souleiman, hairstylist, Collina Strada Copenhagen Show

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“I originally prepared a colored watercolor base beneath the glitter, but I decided against it because it became too bold.. Using a custom mix in various colors of our Submission Glitter and Dusted directly on the skin, on its own, made everything softer and allowed it to remain translucent and iridescent. You can still have an olive-green shoulder with a silver smear underneath and feel all the different colors, but it retains the particular softness of the glitter rather than becoming something heavy or Halloween-y.”
- Zenia Jaeger, key makeup, Submission Beauty 

“I wanted everything to feel quite punk and completely unapologetic. I kept thinking: more glitter, more texture, more attitude. Zenia and Submission immediately understood that energy. They know how to create beauty that feels expressive instead of perfect, so it felt like the most natural fit.”
- Hillary Taymour, founder and creative director, Collina Strada

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“I love the idea of mixing colors of glitter together to create other colors, or layering maybe a gold and then having a sprinkling, before topping it off with silver to brighten it up. I was very much into the idea of mixing all of these colors together, but not in one pot - layering and mixing them in that sense, and building up stronger areas of color and iridescence. Basically, what I’ve been doing is creating these raw shapes and braids and deconstructing the texture of the hair.”
- Eugene Souleiman, hairstylist, Collina Strada Copenhagen Show 

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“Hillary’s work is so much about humor, imperfection, and rawness.
For this show, we’re all saying this same thing: Hillary with the clothes, Zenia and Submission are saying that with the makeup, and we’re saying it with the hair. What I really like about it is that it’s very opinionated. It’s done spontaneously, and it’s very playful. That was the thing I really wanted to push: that it is fun, but it’s not childlike at the same time. It’s also refined but raw, which are two things that you don’t normally associate. I love juxtaposition.”
- Eugene Souleiman, hairstylist, Collina Strada Copenhagen Show 

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“The makeup is fun and playful, but it isn’t childlike. It still has a punk feeling. While we were developing the look, we were listening to Dead Kennedys ‘Too Drunk to Fuck,’ Iggy Pop’s ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’... We didn’t want it to become a beautiful disco moment. It was about fucking it up, taking glitter somewhere rawer, and still keeping it intentional and beautiful.”
- Zenia Jaeger, key makeup, Submission Beauty

“I love that Copenhagen has such a strong point of view, and I don't think the answer is to blend into it. Collina Strada has always celebrated contradiction, humor, messiness, and a little punk. I think it's healthy when different perspectives collide, you end up appreciating both even more.”
- Hillary Taymour, founder and creative director, Collina Strada

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