CECILIE BAHNSEN

'HEARTFELT'

A living pulse glows beneath featherweight silhouettes: love shines luminously, where emotion meets innovation.

Spring/Summer 2026 

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Cecilie Bahnsen’s Spring/Summer 2026 collection, as seen through LUMEN’s cinematographic lens, is a luminous meditation on emotion made physical—each look reverberating with both vulnerability and technical mastery. The Paris runway transformed into a quiet theatre for the senses: LED-lit “hearts” throbbed through layers of ethereal silk, broderie anglaise, and nearly weightless knits, turning Bahnsen’s models into living apparitions with their own pulse. This literal heartbeat amplified an already unmistakable signature—the billowing, architectural “cupcake” silhouettes—by layering new meaning atop form.

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Bahnsen’s tenth year in design echoes through the collection: love letters stitched in ripstop and organza, memories patchworked into voluminous dresses, and soft rebellion seen in floral-embossed technical fabrics or crisscrossing buckles and toggles tracing new architectural lines. If her CPHFW anniversary show was nostalgic, Spring/Summer 2026 feels like rebirth—playful yet deeply felt, driven by the immediacy that comes from seeing the world through a child’s eyes. It is intimate and cinematic, each look more like a frame from a quietly luminous film than a simple garment on parade.

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What stands out, ultimately, is an unguarded romance: the LED-lit hearts—originally inspired by her son’s sense of wonder—serve not just as a motif, but as a tactile rhythm that runs through every movement. The closing fuchsia looks, crafted with geometric cut-outs and bold drop-waists, offer a final crescendo: Bahnsen reminding us that in fashion, love can be both the message and the medium.

This is Bahnsen’s insatiable passion made visible. The true artistry of the collection lies in how every piece, every flicker of light, affirms a belief that what matters most—the most fragile, most heartfelt emotion—deserves to be seen, and felt, in real time.

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Samples can be requested at KARLA OTTO PR LONDON