Impressed by a Yoko Ono artwork set up that Cecilie Bahnsen noticed years in the past at Copenhagen’s Louisiana Museum, the Danish designer known as her spring assortment We Are Water. And right here’s why: Ono’s exhibition displayed a row of glass bottles on a shelf, every full of water and fitted with a handwritten label stating the title of a outstanding inventive – Sylvia Plath, Cindy Sherman or David Bowie, for instance – signifying a message of oneness as a result of at our core, we’re all basically the identical. “It expresses so fantastically one thing that I really feel to be true – that we’re all the identical, simply positioned in several containers,” Bahnsen wrote. So, to set the tone, Cecilie commissioned her personal adaptation of Ono’s work. Glassblower Nina Nørgaard made 250 glass bottles which have been then displayed on a sequence of low mirrored plinths, every referring to the assorted individuals whose craft contributed to the gathering.
Bahnsen’s group and group served as a inventive catalyst right here too, gleaned from the way in which that they put on her bulbous garms. How they may placed on a gown on a tiresome Tuesday, or for supper on a Sunday? “I grew up dreaming of Paris and couture, but it surely was at all times one thing fancy, not for actual life,” Bahnsen recollects. “I really like the concept I’m in a position to create one thing treasured for every single day.”
And so she did. Underneath overcast skies, enveloped by the elegant Cour Mansart within the Monnaie de Paris, fashions meandered round its ivy-cloaked alabaster partitions, donning dreamy, babydoll attire paired with one-of-a-kind Asics trainers or worn over fluid-form trousers. Bahnsen invited ivory Japanese denim in too, typically embroidered by floral motifs and backed with crinoline, whereas translucent T-shirts travelled to her enchanting universe below stratified organza silhouettes. Chock-full of decadence, femininity and the dream of day-to-day couture, Cecilie Bahnsen’s spring oeuvre left us with however one easy sentiment – oh what an exquisite, whimsical world.
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