Researching about the romans fashion trend, it must be mentioned with Ceilie Bahnsen who is a Danish fashion designer and really well known at designing romantic, voluminous dresses. These amazing design were made in different beautiful fabrics, also manage to be pretty but never too saccharine at the same time, this is the way how her design being attractive to the industry.
Bahnsen was born in Copenhagen. She had recently completed her MA at Royal College of Art in London. In her early life, she had attended the Danish Design School and met a designer Anja Vang Krag, who just led her to work as first assistant after she graduated in 2007. Under this position she had worked on freelance projects for Christian Dior as well as the Royal Danish Theatre. After that she had been moved on to do an internship with John Galliano in Paris, where she was subsequently hired as first line assistant and print designer. These had gained a lot of experience for herself and she felt it was enough for her to start her own line. In June 2015, Bahnsen had succeeded in designing her brand's first collection, also in 2017 she was selected as a finalist for the LVMH Design Prize. These attractions had quickly taken the attention of fashion glossies and behemoth department stores, and started becoming famous in the fashion industry.
Bahnsen’s design always focuses on voluminous shapes and romance, and her signature is femininity, sculpted shapes and unusual textures. She had done a lot of exploration of the fabric materials, achieving an effortless feel and a style that would radiate wearability is always being one of her goals. Since her first collection, she had kept working and processed her significant sign, for instance gauzy baby-doll dresses in powdery pink, white blouses with billowy sleeves, and jackets with a school-girl quality.
Models for the final walk on the runway at the Cecilie Bahnsen
“Galliano influenced me in the way he would push every idea to the limit – it was very much about the process. For me, to be pushed so far from my Scandinavian background was a good thing. It’s definitely shaped me.” said Bahnsen, so it can be seen that she mixes her background with the minimalistic Scandinavian design together. This combination of simple and minimal really what makes her brand being unique and special.
This design is come from Cecilie Bahnsen's FW20 collection
This fashion session has caught my eyes. Frozen tundra in Russia’s Kola Peninsula became Behnsen’s inspiration for this project, so it can be seen that she not only used her iconic colors, white and black, but also added gray tones of blue to reproduce the color of the design background. In addition, I had mentioned from the previous post that I was very attracted by her uses of materials. This season also gave out a surprise. Behnsen had used and explored the skills of weaving and tailoring in every set of design. Mixing different elements with the fancy texture will bring out a sense of simple and clean when they are paired with a sweater or jacket. They are in the same collection but have different characteristics of each at the same time, which is very admirable.
Her design has inspired me that I can try to draw multiple textures in the same design, one color tone but carry out different visual effects. I also observe that she used some skills in her design. In order to be more feminine, she has at least one way to show off the female figure in every design, whether it is a perspective material that shows the vertical beauty of the collarbone or the shoulder, peg-tops cutting, knitted vest with oversize dress, these designs skills had shown the way of feminine and romantic. Maybe I can reference her dressing skills into my project, I don’t know what and how I can process them, but I will try to use what I have learned from this research and add it to this project.
Reference :
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