This season Cecilie Bahnsen didn’t just show clothes, she offered up her heart.

The collection, titled “Heartfelt,” was less a runway show and more a meditation on color, shape and emotion. Love literally pulsed a pale pink beneath the clothing via embedded LED hearts synchronized to the music.

It was also Bahnsen at her most experimental. Patchworked dresses sculpted from The North Face’s technical gear, silk hoodies reimagined into trapeze silhouettes and sculptural anoraks traced with lace all carried her signature romanticism. Her traditional shapes were more voluminous and swelled around the body, but retained a lightness and floated beautifully.

Bahnsen toed a fine line between delicacy and utility but with the addition of functional fabrics and accessories — such as thick nylon s

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