Northern Europe's biggest fashion week opened in the Danish capital on Wednesday, showcasing new trends for autumn and winter 2016 with a focus on menswear.

Debutant Copenhagen-based brand Tonsure, which recently won the prestigious DANSK design talent magasin award, opened the fashion week with a new collection of menswear featuring bomber jackets with oversize pockets and overcoats with fur collars.

With rising exports and international acknowledgment, Danish menswear brands have reached a firm placing on the global fashion map and there is additional focus on menswear brands at the three-day event.

"Through recent years, we have seen Danish menswear designers gain a great deal of attention abroad," said Eva Kruse, CEO of Copenhagen Fashion Week (CFW), noting that Danish menswear was expanding tremendously.

"We believe that it is time to give menswear brands even more attention during fashion week," Kruse added.

The CFW event will host a program of 26 shows by various designers, four trade fairs, and jewelry shows.

Among the shows are well-known Danish labels such as By Malene Birger, Henrik Vibskov, as well as a line-up of rising stars that include Mark Kenly Domino Tan and Freya Dalsjoe.

Meanwhile, the best of Hong Kong fashion will be presented for the second time at CFW as three talented Hong Kong designers -- Doris Kath, Kenax Leung and Lu Lu Cheung -- have chosen to showcase their latest collections in the fashion capital of Scandinavia.

The fashion and textile industry is one of Denmark's largest export businesses, producing revenue of 41.9 billion Danish kroner (6.23 billion U.S. dollars) in 2015, primarily owing to export-led growth, according to industry organization Dansk Fashion and Textile.

CFW takes place twice a year in February and August. (1 U.S. dollar = 6.74 Danish kroner) Endit

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