For AW26, Anne Sofie Madsen turns Pandora’s chains and charms into beguiling ghostly looks

Lately Anne Sofie Madsen has a tendency to imbue items with heavy lore with a fresh meaning. Take, for instance, last season’s reworked Perfecto jackets, reworked into a beguiling corset or a fringed hoodie. For autumn/winter 2026, Madsen and co-designer Caroline Clante give a second life to duffel coats, Ugg boots and the jewellery of an unexpected collaborator: Pandora. True to form, Madsen and Clante didn’t simply create a bespoke bracelet or necklace to place on a model’s wrist or neck, but rather treated the brand’s signature chains and charms as material from which to craft entire garments.

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“We really wanted to highlight the jewellery, so we worked on making it truly part of the body and the silhouette,” says Madsen, noting that Pandora felt like a natural fit for Anne Sofie Madsen because it “carries a lot of personal meaning and memory”. “It’s about transforming something familiar into something new, while still keeping a sense of what it once was.”

For Pandora, which supports CPHFW’s entire NEWTALENT programme, the collaboration was a natural fit; a coming together of two Danish brands that share a mutual respect. “Anne Sofie Madsen is an exciting independent voice in Scandinavian fashion, known for a distinctive approach to craftsmanship that blends emotion, experimentation and modern tailoring,” says Pandora CEO Berta de Pablos-Barbier. “Through her practice, she explores identity, transformation and silhouette with a contemporary sensibility. The universe she creates is authentic to her expression, which closely aligns with Pandora’s belief in jewellery as a form of personal storytelling and self-expression.”

Using Pandora’s “more architectural elements” – namely the ME chains and links – Madsen and Clante crafted looks in which the jewellery snakes around the body, dangling off torsos as the models walked the runway.“Once the jewellery becomes the silhouette, it can’t get lost – it becomes the focus,” says Madsen. The Skull Medallian Charm from Pandora’s Talisman collection, meanwhile, is incorporated as a nod to the season’s exploration of the feeling of being haunted, not to mention “traces, memory and what’s left behind”. It’s a metaphor, but the idea is explored with spirit-like expressions, namely the layers of tulle that cast a subtle haze on the Pandora jewellery (it’s a pleasing inverse of last season, in which more delicate body chains were layered over gauzy dresses). “Covering the jewellery in invisible tulle added that feeling of something being hidden but still very present,” says Madsen. Never has a ghost been such a gag.