At Paris Fashion Week, Cecilie Bahnsen turns the runway into a rehearsal. For FW26, Practice blurs the line between studio and stage, where dancers, craft, and repetition reveal fashion as a living, evolving movement.
For Fall Winter 2026, Danish designer Cecilie Bahnsen returned to Paris Fashion week after her anniversary show last summer in Copenhagen. Staged as a working rehearsal space the collection was shaped by the admiration of dancers, collaborators, and creative community.
“I called this collection Practice because I don’t view practice as something that comes before mastery, it is the work itself. It’s the repetition, the returning, the passion and the dedicated work of refining craft over and over again. In fashion, like in dance, you learn through doing – through pinning, unpicking, rehearsing, refining. The pieces are never truly finished; they evolve through patience and care. I also wanted to rethink the runway. Rather than a finished moment of perfection, we invite the audience into a rehearsal, something that feels honest and immediate. It is not only about the final moment, but about the rhythm, the exchange, and the energy that builds over time.” stated Cecilie Bahnsen.
Couture met with ease as dancers stretched and warmed up where movement brought life to the pieces. Soft feminine elements were blended over technical performance items. Sculptural dresses paired with recycled nylon jackets balancing between functionality and style. With every movement we saw shape and bounce. Walking among the dancers were models in delicate anglaise reinterpreted on technological organza to create a perforated, couture-inspired fabric. We also saw Cecilie Bahnsen’s ongoing collaboration with The North Face including a romantic viewpoint reimaging bags using iconic silhouettes from the archive.
In full disclosure, I wasn’t expecting a modern movement show when I texted my dance teacher to say I couldn’t make class today, but the show reminded me why I returned to dance after so many years. I’m not as flexible as I used to be, my balance is not the same, I get dizzy after a few turns, I have difficulties remembering the choreography and I have no longing to get back on the stage, but it’s the practice and passion that keeps me evolving through the different phases of life, and I needed to skip one day of class to see the parallels from the dance studio to the couture studio.
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