Her turquoise-manicured fingers wrap around a microphone. She waits for her guitarist — the other half of the duo, Visitor — to play the opening lines. Then she parts her lips and sings in a sweet, gentle voice, slowing down to track each letter. Her raw, silvery voice floats across the white-tiled space of V1 Gallery, tucked away in Kødbyen — Copenhagen’s industrial meatpacking district. “If you know me, you know how deep my love for music runs,” Casey Blond, the founder and creative director behind Copenhagen-based Mr. Larkin, later wrote on social media, “so, when planning this show’s concept, I knew it had to be centered around sound.” 

The spring-summer 2027 show — the brand’s first-ever outing on the Copenhagen Fashion Week schedule — is a special one for Casey. It was exactly 13 years ago that Casey, a Copenhagen transplant from Houston, Texas, opened Mr. Larkin, a colorful multi-brand shop, and reestablished its in-house label. This year, Casey also relaunched Mr. Larkin’s wholesale business after an eight-year hiatus. In other words, there’s plenty to celebrate and even more to be grateful for. Hence the collection’s title: Lucky.

“We wanted to create a collection that honors who we were, who we are now, and the next era of Mr. Larkin,” Casey says in the press release. That next era, if this collection is any indication, is joyful and optimistic. Right from the start, the wash of shell-pink in airy lace and silks gives a feeling of lightness. Take, for example, the opening look: a misty pink lace dress, accessorized at the waist with a dainty, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it belt of pearls and seashells. A pair of pink pants, covered in hearts, flowers, and swirls worked out in beads and sequins, comes gleaming down the runway next. 

There’s a multitude of personal references at work here. The designer was inspired by her travels, her upbringing in Texas, her time in California and Paris, her family roots in Palermo, and her current life in Copenhagen — where beaches, parks, and harbor baths have been brimming lately with people taking advantage of the abundant sunshine. There’s a lot of that eclectic, globetrotting spirit in the way Casey embellishes her garments. 

A large clamshell sits on the hip of a powder-blue, long-sleeved lace dress. Black capri leggings are edged with delicate gold charms. Iridescent seashell embellishments shimmer delicately across a lavender floor-length frock. Then, there’s my favorite: white-sand-colored pants with a turquoise panel of beaded fringe running down the sides of the legs. As the model walks down the runway, it ripples just like the waves of the ocean tickled by the wind. 

Texture is an ongoing story throughout this season’s lineup. There’s hand-beaded fringe suspended from sequined tops and scarves that drape around the waist. I love that this is something you can not only see, but hear. When a woven fishnet skirt walks down the runway, the soft clatter of pearls ricochets around the room. 

Even some of the simpler, more day-to-day pieces exude elegant in this easy, ineffable way. There are some gorgeous jackets with tight little button-loops down the front and fluid, vintage-inspired silhouettes with broad shoulder pads. “The pieces are artful and individualistic — a bit difficult to pinpoint — but the silhouettes function in your life, whether for a special moment or a standard Tuesday,” Casey says. “Every piece has a reason to be worn, always born from a real-world perspective.”

As models line up to take their final walk, I watch as the colors filter through the space — soft pinks and lavenders, sandy whites, and a kaleidoscope of azure. There’s something nostalgic about them, but also something wonderfully free. And I realize that one of the most impressive things about the collection really comes down to that feeling. Every look evokes the sun-drenched promise of a long, languorous summer, whether it’s spent bouncing in between the countryside and the city, or darting off to the seaside.

Styling is a big part of that, something that Casey knows how to balance especially well. Colors are layered and played against one another, giving each look its own sense of spontaneity. In the show, she styles a lustrous, softly structured pink blazer with a blue-and-yellow lace-trimmed bralette, and tempers the lively gold sequins of a skirt with a ballerina-pink jacket with its front halfway unbuttoned and flopped over. 

“At its core, this collection is driven by styling. I’ve never viewed myself strictly as a designer, but rather as a stylist and a clothing storyteller,” Casey says. “I love retail. I love the art of selling clothes, and above all I love dressing people. My collections are always born from how people actually live. When life feels overwhelming, I hope getting dressed can be a small escape.”