Amanda Bødker
What is
“I like your style”?
In this series we ask fashion lovers to share some of their favourite outfits and talk us through what inspires and influences the way they dress and shop.
Each person featured then nominates someone they are inspired by and they then become the next featured in the series - creating a chain of style admiration across the globe.
Amanda Bødker was nominated
by Ophelia King
Who is Amanda?
Amanda lives and works in Copenhagen as visual editor at the magazine Papercut Issues and as a freelance photographer.
Her favourite place is anywhere in Italy. Her favourite food is anything gluten free, and probably Italian too.
In her spare time, you can find her annoying the shit out of her downstairs neighbours by wearing high heels and dancing all day,
every day.
Follow Amanda at
@amandaboedker
Your favourite Danish designer?
and why
I would love to own every single piece designed by the women behind the brand Babett. I think they are the best pieces coming out of Copenhagen at the moment, both concept and design-wise. They design unisex utility wear out of dead stock fabrics from around the world. Their clothes are all hand crafted and because it’s produced out of dead stock material, they are all released in limited edition and each one is unique.
Best Vintage Store in Copenhagen?
Definitely the two shops Jérôme and Rosy. It’s same women behind both shops and they are without a doubt the best buyers in Copenhagen!
Jérôme has been around for quite a long time now, and it has never failed to be anything but the best. I try not to let myself anywhere near the shop because it’s so out of my budget, but they are literally selling all my dream pieces.
Rosy is their new shop, which is equally well curated, but at way more easy going prices. Both are definitely worth a visit if ever in Copenhagen!
Who most influences and inspires your style?
My friends have a big influence on my style, no doubt. I generally find it super interesting how other people style and combines pieces, because we all see clothes in such different ways. I find that really interesting.
Apart from that my inspirations can be affected by pretty much anything and everything.
For example, I recently started watching ‘The Wire’, which is a series from the 00’s about these gangs and the cops in Baltimore. Well, I thought the gang members looked really fucking cool, like the best 90’s/00’s hip-hop vibes. So for a couple weeks there, I got really in to baggy jeans, oversized short sleeved dress-shirts, body chains and some other ridiculous stuff. But I guess thats just how it works for me.
Best Vintage Store in Copenhagen?
I love that it’s very playful and changes constantly. I hate when things get repetitive, which is a general issue across all aspects of my life, so I rarely wear the same outfit combination more than once (except when it is so good that you have to give it some more love).
For the past 12-13 years of my life I’ve been keeping all the good pieces of clothing I’ve owned, so I have quite an immense wardrobe to play with. I love to go exploring in it, pick out things I haven’t worn for years and reinstate it in my life. It happens all the time, I am reinventing my clothes. I can half-hate an item forever and then one-day wake up thinking “that terrible superhero t-shirt from 2007 is exactly what I need in my life right now”.
I’m quite interested in fashion history in general and I love to mix different decades, cultures, styles etc. within one outfit. There’s so much history and activism behind so many fashion movements and I love to think about the clashes there can be within an outfit. It’s super nerdy and no one, apart from me, will ever know any of the thought behind it, but I really love to geek out about things like that.
Also, I just love looking a little bit crazy. I’m quite into going grocery shopping in a ballgown and silly things like that.
How do you think the Scandinavian aesthetic, landscape, surroundings and culture feeds into your own aesthetic?
My love for good craftsmanship and classic designs are definitely a by-product of my upbringing and background as a Scandinavian woman. The Danish design history is full of some amazing creative people, who have managed to create some truly timeless designs.
I’ve grown up in a family of very aesthetic people, in a beautiful house filled with Danish design and art covering every inch of our walls. Growing up surrounded by so much beauty has made me really aware of of my interest in design - which started from a very early age.
Do you think social media has influenced how you shop? and if so how? and do you feel it has affected your style?
To be honest, not really. I only buy second-hand clothes and I don’t shop online, except for when I occasionally find a bargain on E-Bay. I haven’t bought anything off-the-rack for years now and that constitutes the majority of all the stuff you see on social media.
Personal style can be about how we want to present ourselves visually to the world - how do you intend for your clothes to present you?
I’m what I will call a mood-dresser. I wake up every morning with this gut feeling of what mood I’m in and how I feel, which I then try to dress to. If I end up in the wrong outfit or in something that wasn’t really what I felt like, it can completely fuck up my mood. It’s honestly quite ridiculous, but I’ve been like that since I was a kid. It’s partially why I love clothes
so fucking much, it’s a way of channelling your inner self.
My clothes are always an indication of my mood and how I want to be perceived. If I feel extroverted, I’ll put on something dramatic, colourful, something that demands attention. If I feel introverted I’ll do the opposite, If I want to present myself very serious I’ll tone it down, etc.
Clothes are such a strong form of communication and expression.
Your most embarrassing fashion moment to date:
Any moment where I’ve worn skinny jeans. Seeing photos of myself in really, really, really tight skinny jeans is one of the most cringe things I can think of. For me, it is straight up the most unattractive thing imaginable.
But then on the other hand, I used to think it looked fab and to be honest I’ll probably be wearing skinny jeans again at some point in my life, so maybe I shouldn’t talk shit about them.
Your most icon fashion moment to date:
I think it needs to be a little teenage throw back. Back when I was 14, I used to be really punk inspired. I was never truly punk, I just tried really hard to look it. At the time I was probably like 150 cm tall and was sporting a short, very blond pixie cut.
I wore this outfit consisting of my best friends old ballet body-suit, with this vintage Spanish flamenco jacket with big puffy sleeves covered in flounces, then like a million necklaces and rings and then last but not least, the black Acne Atacoma wedges with the mirror bottom.
The entire outfit was black, like everything else I used to wear back then…
The best runway show that happened during
your lifetime
I wish I’d seen all of Alexander McQueen’s shows in the late 90’s to the early 00’s. He was such a master at creating these universe’s with incredible scenography and choreography. His shows were so elaborate, they almost become like a little theatre show.
His Spring/Summer 2001 show was called Voss, and if you don’t know it, please check it out here. It’s out of this world amazing. I’m not even going to try and explain it, it wouldn’t do it justice. But watch it all the way to the end, the finale is the best part!
Images — Amanda Bødker
