Wood Wood Explained

Wood Wood
Founder:Karl Oskar Olsen and Brian SS Jensen
Location:Grønnegade
Copenhagen

Wood Wood is a contemporary fashion and lifestyle brand founded in 2002 and based in Copenhagen, Denmark. It has stores in Berlin, London, Aarhus and Copenhagen, and an online store. Wood Wood is directed by co-founders Karl-Oskar Olsen and Brian SS Jensen.

As a sub-cultural founded lifestyle brand, its founders grew up with graffiti and street culture in the 1990s. They mix high-end fashion, sports and streetwear with youth and urban culture, art and music. A Wood Wood yellow T-shirt was worn by Sigrid in the video for "Strangers" giving the brand international exposure. It is described as Contemporary Streetwear. Wood Wood has a strong sports component. It started as a small shop selling T-shirts and evolved into well-established fashion brand showing new collections in Florence and London.[1]

It is based in Nørrebro in Copenhagen, Denmark. Wood Wood has made more than 50 collaborations with global brands such as Nike, Asics, Barbour, Eastpak, Lego and Adidas, hand with niche brands and artists such as Peter Sutherland, Elmgreen & Dragset, So-Me and FUZI UVTPK.[2] [3] [4] [5] In November, 2022 a special version of Artek Stool 60 was relised.[6]

In 2019, it was announced that Wood Wood would be opening a store in Soho, London.[7] Currently, the brand operates four stores in Denmark and two in Berlin, Germany.[8]

Spacon&X has designed the Wood Wood Berlin store (2020), Wood Wood, Soho London store (2020), Wood Wood, CPH Airport store, Copenhagen (2018), Wood Wood Revolver Exhibition Booth, Copenhagen (2018), Wood Wood Museum, Copenhagen (2017), Wood Wood AA Display System (2017), Wood Wood Revolver Exhibition Booth, Copenhagen (2017). [9] These projects were followed by pop-up store ARTEFACT for Roskilde Festival by Studio Gestalt in 2022.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wood Wood Founder Talks adidas & 15th Anniversary . Hypebeast . 2017-08-15 . 2018-01-29.
  2. Web site: WOOD WOOD and Karl-Oskar Olsen Celebrate a Decade of Breaking Boundaries . Hypebeast . 2012-04-20 . 2014-08-22.
  3. Web site: Wood Wood . Copenhagen Fashion Week . 2022-11-12.
  4. Web site: Woolf . Jake . 8 Best Brands From Scandinavia You Need To Know Right Now . da. GQ.com . 2014-08-06 . 2014-08-22.
  5. Web site: Wood Wood Clothing Brand evolves as one of the A-List High Fashions of Denmark . The Danish Pioneer . 2014-08-22.
  6. Web site: Wood Wood Adds a Splash of Color to Artek's Stool 60. Hypebeast. 2022-11-05.
  7. Web site: Wood Wood opens first ever UK store in Soho. Wright. Georgia. 2019-11-25. Retail Gazette. en-GB. 2020-01-30.
  8. Web site: Danish brand Wood Wood to open London store. Moran. Graeme. 2019-05-16. Drapers. en. 2020-01-30.
  9. Web site: Spacon&X . Spacon&X . 28 October 2020.
  10. Web site: In Conversation with Gestalt Studio . Wood Wood . 10 July 2022.