Change of scenery for Celine.
We left a disheveled student striding out of the National Library in nylon bombers, leopard print top and
seventies
mini-shorts (summer 2024).
Make way for a pretty lady in her little black dress, triple rows of pearls and patent Mary Janes, spinning (in circles) in the rotunda of the Salle Pleyel transformed into a music box.
At noon sharp, the Parisian house in the fold of LVMH unveiled, through a video published on the internet, its new wardrobe for winter 2025.
Also read: Will the latest Celine fashion show make you want to go back to the library?
In his note of intent, Hedi Slimane, its superstar artistic director, dedicates this filmed fashion show to his “
dear friend and mentor Richard A.
”, for Richard Avedon.
And the Celine woman, this season, in coordinated sets, jackets and very
sixties miniskirts,
her long eyelashes full of Rimmel, takes on the air of Verushka or Twiggy, shot by the master for
Harper's Bazaar
and
Vogue
.
The music is enigmatic like in a Hitchcock film, the shots filmed (last December) in the most beautiful Art Deco sites in the capital.
Mainly the Salle Pleyel, lined for the occasion with mirrors, the Bourdelle Museum and its plaster hall, the Maison de la Chimie and the Museum of Decorative Arts of Paris.
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Flashback.
Five years ago, Mr. Slimane, appointed head of Celine style in 2018, then posed as the champion of French chic with his version of “the
French Woman
”, a “
ferocious Parisian ascendant” Cahiers du cinema'
" intended to "
invade the world
", we can then read in Le
Figaro
.
“
In one sentence, in one look, Hedi Slimane regains his title and redefines the look of the street for the next few seasons
.”
We weren't wrong.
Both this heroine of Claude Sautet, this Sorbonne student from the 1970s, we ended up seeing her in real life, in the street.
While from collection to collection, from fashion shows on the stage of the legendary Wiltern in Los Angeles (winter 2023) to videos in Saint Tropez (summer 2023), the Femme Celine had turned (a little) rock star.
Close-up on this “Zouzou”, a nickname given to young girls with short hair from the 1960s (and the next Celine haute perfumery perfume available in June 2024).
An ode to all the Jean Sebergs of France and Navarre who make fun of bourgeois conventions - without sending patent shoes and a small bag flying... Triumph!
Barely at the helm, Hedi Slimane imagined this bag with a flap and double C clasp.
Using a logo inspired by the links of the chain surrounding the Arc de Triomphe (the name of this winter 2025 collection) and created in 1971 by Céline Vipiana.
Did you know, the founder of the brand had the idea after a car accident near the emblematic monument.
Monogrammed Celine in the last shot of this film.
As the house prepares to launch its beauty line, first with a collection of lipsticks in gold boxes stamped Rouge Celine Collection (launch in 2025) which makes a notable cameo in the short film, Hedi Slimane operates a return to Celine's roots, to pure and simple chic.
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