Before beginning a career in fashion, Henrik Vibskov worked in visual arts–and that shows in every catwalk he puts on. With past themes including “The Fantabulous Bicycle Music Factory” or “The Slippery Spiral Situation,” he playfully mixes youth culture references with ancient ones.

This time, the show was called “The Last Pier Pandemonium,” an apocalyptic name evoking the capital of hell in Milton’s Paradise Lost, and the castle in the video game Final Fantasy.

This is Henrik’s show in a nutshell: a mix between a classical representation of horror, and a more modern, tongue-in-cheek one, addressed at blasé teenagers.

How does this translate onto clothes? Let’s just say that Vibskov recreated our worst nightmare…when in first grade. He essentially invented an army of bad guys, that frightened the child in all of us. Set in the courtyard of a Parisian school, he installed a wooden pirate boat, on which the men walked down fiercely.

They all wore dark scientist glasses and face pieces, such as Alice bands made out of car tire circling the frame of the face, like a Frankenstein members club.

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