Cecilie Bahnsen Fall 2023 Ready-to-Wear

Today’s world, with its tough twists and turns, doesn’t seem to be an oyster for Cecilie Bahnsen’s sense of romance. Yet darkness can be lightened by grace. Her creations have it in spades. While not straying from for the poetry she infuses into her poufy frocks, which seem to inhabit an ethereal dreamland with no connection with any actual reality, for fall she let her Scandi side dictate a (slightly) more practical approach, expanding her expressive range. Backstage before today’s show, Bahnsen explained that she felt the time was right to explore new silhouettes, leaner and slender, and more vibrant color combinations —gradients from turquoise to cerulean, from sunflower to lemon yellow, or from pale pink to bright magenta. She called the collection “everyday couture,” and gently ventured into outerwear territory, giving her romantic take on a cropped bomber jacket with a billowy bow at the back, or an A-line duster with poufy poet sleeves. Raw Japanese denim was brought into the picture, and given delicate ruffling and peplum details. A collaboration with Asics produced upcycled sneakers with feminine cut-outs details, “technical but also whimsical,” she said.