Sören and Jenny from Copenhagen Streetstyle are part of that group of people who dress pretty low-key but track down other people on the streets with their cameras—while resting assured that no one would ever think about taking their picture because their own style is so plain. Because some people in Berlin still haven’t realized that wearing flip-flops results in public stoning, we wanted to know what all the rage is about in Copenhagen street fashion right now…

Vice: What’s the absolute weirdest thing you have seen someone wear in the last few weeks?
Sören and Jenny: Well, Copenhagen is really into weird stuff. Henrik Vibskov can get away with dressing like a Tyroler from head to toe and no one will even give him a second glance on the street. People are used to seeing weird outfits all the time, but some stuff is still way over the top.

Which outfit beats the Vibskov-Fullbody-Tyroler-Condom then?
Last week we photographed a girl wearing a tangerine-skirt, a jade-green jacket, and a crazy colored toy-inspired necklace teamed with huge pink sneakers and a crazy updo reminiscent of little My in the Mumin-fairytale. It’s not something we’d wear ourselves but we both thought it was pretty ballsy to wear something so colorful and crazy in Copenhagen, a city that’s obsessed with muted colors and 90s aesthetics.

You didn’t think she was ridiculous? Not even a tiny little bit?
Well, this girl had the right attitude to go with it and that’s what made it look so cool! She looked like a frowning three-year-old girl that didn’t get her way in the supermarket.

So what are the girls into that didn’t get stuck in their Mumin-phase?
A lot of girls are wearing cut-off boyfriend jeans or casual shorts teamed with gigantic cardigans and recently we’ve started noticing that many of them wear cycle-shorts underneath, which looks so-so. Copenhagen is very much into the simple lines and the scruffiness of the 90’s at the moment. The neo-grunge look has really hit it here big-time, and oversize has always been a huge obsession here, even before it became a trend. We don’t have a clue why, really. It might be that Copenhageners like to see themselves as really relaxed, urban, and casual folks.

After the 90s wears off they’ll be stuck with a massive depot of jersey stuff that no vintage store will take from them even if they pay for it. But I’m sure it’s not all 90s fetishists who’re hoarding jersey as if they’re afraid of WWIII breaking out tomorrow, right? Who was the best-dressed person you ran into this week? 

Definitely Christabelle, an American girl we met by chance outside of the largest department store in town. She wore a beautiful, frilled, wide-skirted 50s-inspired dress, a beautiful old-fashioned wide-brimmed hat, and girly platform wedges.

OK, now what was the hands-down absolutely worst outfit you’ve seen this week?
The worst dressed person was probably a girl wearing winter clothes during last week’s heatwave. Sadly, we don’t have a photo. She was seriously wearing wooly tights, boots and a huge winter coat. She looked very uncomfortable too. And I’m sure she must have had some mental breakdown that day. Apart from that we’d generally say that people who buy into a trend and don’t really reflect over it are bad-dressed—people who don’t use their head and find something that suits them and is personal.

BARBARA DABROWSKA