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A model presents a creation by Cecilie Bahnsen for the Women Ready-to-wear Fall-Winter 2024\/2025 collection as part of the Paris Fashion Week, in Paris on February 28, 2024. (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA \/ AFP) (Photo by MIGUEL MEDINA\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If the Book of Genesis is believed, a woman\u2019s bite set forth the world\u2019s wisdom. Femininity is akin to the origin story of Danish designer Cecilie Bahnsen, who rendered the forbidden fruit in a large-scale sculpture and placed it centre stage in Palais de Tokyo at her Fall\/Winter 2024 collection presentation during Paris Fashion Week. Titled \u201cThe Bite\u201d, Bahnsen evoked the symbolism of girlish wonder by recontextualising her signature whimsy demi-couture pieces in austere, sensible measures. While the designer, who cut her teeth under John Galliano and Erdem Moral\u0131o\u011flu<\/a>, will perenially romance the mundane, Bahnsen extrapolated on the beauty of the habitual. There was an appreciation for naivety, but a deeper understanding that time and maturity reveal an idyll of simplicity, too.<\/p>\n

Quite gestures\u2014be it healing our inner child by wearing the tulle fantasies of one\u2019s past or more simply embuing quotidian wares with an element of poetry\u2014can be the most profound. Here in Paris<\/a>, miles away from her hometown of Copenhagen<\/a>, the designer offered a discerning judgement, eschewing overt elements of fantasy for designs rooted in reality. This was Bahnsen\u2019s Garden of Eden.<\/p>\n

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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28:\u00a0 A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cFor me, an Apple represents desire. Love. Strength. Beauty. But there is also an ordinariness to it. I am drawn to this juxtaposition of high and low, the clash between luxury and every day,\u201d the designer explained in the show notes.<\/p>\n

This internal dichotomy was observed from the outset in a black oversized V-neck cable knit sweater layered over a sheer slip scattered with sweet daisy embroidery. Winter hallmarks\u2014like the navy sweaters sporting knitted botanical motifs or the billowing windbreakers and fittingly named Mackintosh raincoat\u2014oscillated between pragmatic, austere and ethereal.<\/p>\n

In Bahnsen\u2019s world, the canyon between precious, expertly crafted heirloom pieces and the archetypal garments of daily life isn\u2019t difficult to traverse but articulated with fluidity. This collection deviated from her trademark by relegating over-refinement to the silhouettes sported by her community of adherents speckled in the front row.<\/p>\n

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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Even the most magical garments\u2014which there were a few, in bridal whites, spangled silver, diaphanous organza and punctured vinyl\u2014were treated with a lived-in leisureliness. The casting (creative friends of Bahnsens, not conventional models) and styling (with each look completed by a new variant in Bahnsen\u2019s sold-out collaboration with Asics) helped emphasise this point too. Why reserve artistry when it could be savoured at every interval?<\/p>\n

In a way, it felt like the collection was more accessible than ever, with every type of woman finding pockets to relish over the 29 looks. Her universe may have been once occupied by the ephemeral fairies and princesses of our imaginations, but when slicing away from these archetypes, a stubbornness for treasuring the commonplace reveals itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis idea of \u2018The Bite\u2019 is like leaving innocence behind a little, which somehow also felt very relevant this season,\u201d Bahnsen noted. In Scandinavian mythology<\/a>, it\u2019s proposed that the Norse goddess of Idun maintains her immortality through the consumption and keeping of magic apples. How fitting then, for Bahnsen to forge this mode of maturity through crafting her own folklore and concluding her runway with models walking the runway with half-bitten fruit.<\/p>\n

In Bahsen\u2019s fairytale, Eve doesn\u2019t leave paradise exiled and ostracised. Here, she walks away with the knowledge of her self-assuredness and a custom-made-to-order wardrobe.<\/p>\n

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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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PARIS, FRANCE – FEBRUARY 28: A model walks the runway during the Cecilie Bahnsen Womenswear Fall\/Winter 2024-2025 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on February 28, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Estrop\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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