Skagen is a seaside village in Denmark, but it is also a minimalist lifestyle products brand owned by the Fossil Group that’s been around since 1989 and that makes quite a beautiful collection of watches, leather goods – like rucksacks and handbags, and menswear accessories like wallets and card holders.
The great thing is, besides its style emphasis on functionality, minimalism, and simplicity in the time tested Northern European mold, that Skagen luxury goods are on the LOW end of the price spectrum despite the brand having the pedigree of high quality materials and workmanship. A kind of luxury-prêt-à-porter if you like. Great for gifts. Or great if you need to do yourself an unexpected favor when you don’t have time to do extensive research on which product or brand you really wanted in the first place.
The latest Skagen collection for 2015 boasts several new items, like for instance the Kallan watch, which is a limited edition only, depicted below as the pendulum watch with a simple round dial in mouse grey and hands in Egyptian blue. Trust us when we say this would make for a great gift for a great price.
As far as signatures go the watch collection this year is inspired by the different phases of the moon – the full moon which, if you look at the shape of each watch, becomes clearly recognizable as an outstanding shape. Other style cues the collection takes from the simplicity and minimalist functionality of the Danish landscape and from Danish life in general, in which riding a normal bike (and not a sporty or an extreme one) has always been a central feature. Imagine the spokes of the wheel from a normal bike as the simple hands on the dial of the watch. Voici your Skagen concept and functionality.
This ubiquitous simplicity and functionality carries over in the leather goods and into the accessories so that the whole lifestyle product range becomes instantly recognizable as Skagen but also as a very classy and desirable luxury product despite its reasonable price.
BDMOTP visited a Skagen showroom in Paris before FW had started, and more and more you will see that at the world’s largest fashion weeks that lesser known brands will open up shop in anticipation of the main events to come ahead of time. You may call it the opening acts to the big shows but what is interesting is that perhaps some of the better luxury items can be found ahead of the main events precisely for the fact that they are lesser known. Because they yet need to be discovered by the public at large. And thus, since exclusivity is one of the very key features which makes a luxury product stand apart, BDMOTP hereby fully endorses Skagen as the best and latest nouvelle collection for the summer and fall season of 2015 lifestyle products.
Posted by Sandro and photos from Skagen.
