04/08/2025
Because it’s fashion week in Copenhagen, I want to focus on the essence of fashion in the coming days.
Photos are from bookazine 8, the fashion issue
From an article with photos showing characteristics from twentieth century fashion - and about and Cæcilie Ning Hage,
Director of Tidens Samling in Odense since 2004-
Owner of Nordisk Kostume Kompagni (the rental section of Tidens Samling)
And owner of in Odense since 2015
Cæcilie is Daughter of Annette Hage (1952–2004)
Collector, costumier, cultural figure and founder of Museet Tidens Samling
From the bookazine:
Annette Hage is clear in my memory from my youth in Odense: eccentric, elegant and, above all, un-Danish and the opposite of provincial. When you ran into her, she would be wearing plus fours, a shirt and tie with a jacket or a beautiful ankle-length dress from the 1910s, 1920s or 1930s. Her lips were red as blood, as were her fingernails.
Annette collected clothes, shoes, jewellery, furniture and interior objects, seeing something potentially interesting in many of the things that others were going to throw out, an interest she picked up from the young age of 12.
In 1968, at the age of 16, she opened a combined shop and exhibition in the Nedergade neighbourhood, where she lived. From this place, called BAZAR XLI, she would rent or sell clothes and accessories for a number of years.
At the age of 19, she had Cæcilie Ning. The father was an artist who was 15 years her senior. ‘When I was two, my dad moved out,’ says Cæcilie. She is sitting across from me in the small kitchen in the store, telling me about the business that she suddenly took over in 2004 after her mother’s untimely death.
Read the full story in the printbookazine – avaiable with Danish or English text by following link in profie
