Diablo is haute as hell at Milan Fashion Week
Blizzard Entertainment and Danish fashion house Han Kjøbenhavn unveiled a surprising new collaboration on Saturday at Milan Fashion Week: a Diablo-inspired, high-end, ready-to-wear collection for 2023 that will be available for purchase this summer.
Han Kjøbenhavn’s fall/winter “Chthonic Penumbra” womenswear collection goes far beyond the T-shirts and hoodies one typically associates with gaming-inspired fashion. The line comprises striking fashion pieces composed of faux fur, vegan leather, and feathers, in gray and black hues, vibrant, blood-red fabrics, and complemented with pearls and chrome accents. Han Kjøbenhavn described the new collection as inspired by the phrase “hell as a beautiful place.”
Ahead of Saturday’s runway show at Milan Fashion Week, Polygon spoke to Han Kjøbenhav creative director Jannik Wikkelsø Davidsen and CEO Daniel Søndergaard Hummel about the brand’s collaboration with Diablo and Blizzard.
Han Kjøbenhavn’s Diablo-inspired womenswear collection is not the brand’s typical collaboration. It’s worked with other labels over the past decade, including athletic brand Puma and textile maker Pendleton Woolen Mills, but Davidsen says that it’s been less interested in those kinds of partnerships in recent years — and that Diablo and Han Kjøbenhavn share a certain “emotional DNA.”
“Normally a fashion brand would do sneaker collabs and such, but… we have not done too many collabs [like that] because it just seemed almost too saturated,” Davidsen said. “We wanted to look at new possibilities, with new partners, where it’s more about the emotional DNA and the connection between brands than a product. Talking to the [Blizzard], the match between us and Diablo has been really, really good, because my and
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