Copenhagen Fashion Week 2025 - Zalando Visionary Award winner IAMISIGO

IAMISIGO SS26: DUAL MANDATE

Unveiled at Copenhagen Fashion Week — where Team Hypend was on the ground, kindly hosted by Zalando — IAMISIGO’s SS26 collection, Dual Mandate, reclaims a loaded phrase and reframes it as something deeply personal.

Fresh off winning the Zalando Visionary Award 2025, IAMISIGO delivers a collection that explores duality as a state of balance: protection and openness, adornment and awareness. This isn’t clothing as statement — it’s clothing as frequency.

Rooted in traditional African craftsmanship and built with materials like Ugandan cotton, Nigerian raffia, Tanzanian sisal, and Kenyan metals and glass, Dual Mandate transforms the body into a spiritual landscape. Every silhouette moves through four energetic dimensions — body, mind, spirit, emotion — bridging ancestral technology with contemporary form.

As the curtains fall on Copenhagen Fashion Week SS26, IAMISIGO has emerged not just as a winner of the 2025 Zalando Visionary Award, but as a force reshaping fashion through ancestral craftsmanship and poetic purpose. Their ‘Dual Mandate’ collection—woven from Ugandan cotton, Nigerian raffia, Tanzanian sisal, and Kenyan metals—speaks in frequencies of body, mind, spirit, and emotion, inviting us into a profoundly ritualistic experience.

Curated by Joel Kotivuori & Karim Awad