This season Cecilie Bahnsen didn’t simply present garments, she supplied up her coronary heart.
The gathering, titled “Heartfelt,” was much less a runway present and extra a meditation on coloration, form and emotion. Love actually pulsed a pale pink beneath the clothes by way of embedded LED hearts synchronized to the music.
It was additionally Bahnsen at her most experimental. Patchworked attire sculpted from The North Face’s technical gear, silk hoodies reimagined into trapeze silhouettes and sculptural anoraks traced with lace all carried her signature romanticism. Her conventional shapes had been extra voluminous and swelled across the physique, however retained a lightness and floated fantastically.
Bahnsen toed a advantageous line between delicacy and utility however with the addition of purposeful materials and equipment — reminiscent of thick nylon straps and belts, plastic snap buckles and carabiner results, a trapeze gown with a ripstop, or a pencil skirt paired with a deconstructed mountain jacket — she deftly navigated away from saccharine.
The designer and her studio have been working diligently on deconstructing drape and construction by taking classic items aside and remodeling their bones. In consequence, the skirts and attire additionally had essentially the most coveted accent — pockets — cleverly hidden amongst the poufs and folds of the clothes.
The run of appears was a meditation on coloration, too, with tonal pacing in white, pink, black and pink, whereas plastic floral appliqués added ebullient bubbles of texture.
It needs to be famous that Bahnsen despatched out fashions in quite a lot of sizes and shapes, in a season by which physique positivity has been maybe forgotten to date.
Past the runway, Bahnsen visitor edited the newest version of A Journal, which served as a bodily temper board of kinds. It’s full of drawings by her son and sketches from her husband, interviews with private buddies and photographs that peek into their lives. By way of the curation for the 200-page tome, it turned the collective inspiration for the gathering.
“Love” was a nod to not solely romance, however resilience. “Selecting love in a time that’s fairly tough, taking a look at know-how with a brand new eyes and being artistic with it, and discovering your method with it,” she stated backstage. “Each like embracing craft and the making of [clothes], but in addition remembering to have enjoyable and large love.”
Bahnsen continued her collaboration with Asics on a slip on coach that added one other factor of ease for the fashionable romantic.
