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Cecilie Bahnsen Resort 2026 Collection
Cecilie Bahnsen's resort collection is a coda to her fall 2025 show. Once again the designer has tempered the runaway romance of her work with functional, yet feminized, athletic gear. So a pair of drawstring shorts is appliqued with embroidered three-dimensional flowers and the hardware takes the shape of a daisy. Unique to this offering are a series of zip-front jackets made in collaboration with Alpha Industries. There's one that has a petal-like laser-cut design, and others with multicolored, or alternatively monochrome, embroidered patches taken from a vintage gardening book with hand-tinted plates that the designer found in England. She said she loved how some of the colors bled and showed an example of a plate where the flower extends beyond the frame. It's an apt metaphor: Bahnsen will soon mark her first decade in business. In that time, she's demonstrated how romantic fantasy dresses can break out of the occasion category and permeate day-to-day life.
Nature is both beautiful and willful. Some of its uncontrollability is captured in the lookbook pictures which, Bahnsen said, were taken 'on a beautiful Danish summer day with wind everywhere.' The wind really played up the buoyancy of short, girly, bouffant dresses, while it rippled more gently on narrow, semi-sheer dresses with slightly dropped waists, which felt more sophisticated. Growing strawberries with her son, the designer said, has her feeling connected to nature. As they ripen, she explained, there is 'something that spills over and inspires something new. There's a true relaxedness to it that I thought was also important for the collection: to have that real ease of how I wear it every day.'
