Cecilie Bahnsen - Resort 2021

  (Images from Ceciline Bahnsen.  All rights. Used in promotion of the designer.)

Ceciline Bahnsen the Danish fashion designer, has been exhibiting her reworked 1800s romanticism since 2017, debuting at Copenhagen Fashion Week, as an ex-intern with John Galliano, Bahnsen has expressed an ability to meld the Couture with Read-to-Wear stylizations.  Delicately crossing the line from fine tailoring to her readily available pieces.  She has however relied on and struggled with the heavy set volumes of her collections, which at times has portayed a stuffy medieval feel - whilst diffusing a softneness and delicacy of the pieces.  However it was her Pre-Fall collection that was destined for London Fashion week in December 2019, to which she offered as a digital representation rather than the traditional runway, that showed a glimpse of the young designer removing some of the heavy fits, with a more contoured and crafted array.  The irony is of course, what was an exemption permitted by the LFW organisers for Bahnsen's no show, now with the COVID-19 pandemic which started late last year, has all but shut down the traditional runway shows.

For her Resort 2021 showing,  Bahnsen has maintained the balance of the more layered looks to the finer silhouettes, there are moments, very slightly of Galliano's deconstruction of traditional wears, yet, Bahnsen has been able to set the collection as a backdrop to her more tralatitious styles.  Created, like most mid-year 2020 collections, under the quarantine lockdowns, she has source recycled materials of silk and organza blends, with her quilted and laminous looks. 

While the collection holds degrees of Bahnsen's charm, it seems unable to grasp an identifiable direction or theme.  Unlike the London 2020 Pre-Fall collection which appeared more streamlined and focused.  The Resort showing resonates a patchwork of prior seasonal styles, which in turn diulates the looks on offer.