Hedi Slimane Exalted ’60s Stylish at Celine – and Launched a Lipstick

If Chanel is carefully related to Place Vendôme, Celine’s signature landmark should be the Arc de Triomphe.

Legend has it home founder Céline Vipiana adopted a series motif amongst her trend home’s signifiers after her automobile broke down subsequent to the Arc de Triomphe in 1971, and she or he observed the heavy hyperlinks that encircle the plaza.

Now Hedi Slimane has taken issues to a brand new zenith, titling his fall effort “Arc de Triomphe” and stamping the model’s ornamental Triomphe motif on groovy little pillbox caps, the temples of TV-screen-shaped sun shades and — shock! — Celine’s new lipstick vary, the primary shade slated to launch this fall and teased in his luxurious assortment movie.

This was simply Slimane’s greatest filmed reveal but, with no droning rock soundtrack, solely sweeping classical music backing beautiful, velvety, largely black-and-white imagery melding heroic Antoine Bourdelle sculptures, Twiggy-esque eye make-up and completely coiffed fashions in pert fits and attire, all with a definite ’60s gloss.

Launched a few week after the top of trend month, it put Slimane’s seal of approval on a decade that percolated all through the European trend season, and reached full-boil right here. His model is as youthful and compelling as it’s polished.

Press notes time-stamp the gathering’s conception to July 2023, and the filming to December 2023, maybe to underline that Slimane settled on LBDs, strands of pearls and Area Age stylish lengthy earlier than they appeared on runways in Milan and Paris.

Slimane describes the ’60s because the “golden age of Celine,” which was based in 1945 and based mostly initially on footwear. The exacting designer homed in on coordinated two-piece seems to be, A-line shapes and brief hemlines. Surfaces grew to become extra embellished as his movie progressed, climaxing in minidresses paved in heavy crystal embroideries or feather-shaped gold sequins, and bulbous shearling coats, some hooded.

Slimane reprised his Triomphe bag, which he designed on his first day at Celine in 2018, in gleaming white or black patent leather-based to match his gleaming mary janes and tall boots.

Fashions strolled via a number of well-known Parisian venues that boast lavish Artwork Deco decors, together with the Salle Pleyel live performance corridor, La Maison de la Chimie and the Musée Bourdelle. Spliced in have been scenes of fashions preening in entrance of a mirror, the vainness appointed with merchandise from the forthcoming Celine Beauté vary.

First up is a variety of satin-finish lipsticks in 15 colours, hitting counters in January 2025. Based on Celine, new magnificence collections designed by Slimane are to be launched every season, in the end comprising lip balms, mascaras, nail polish, eyeliners and pencils, unfastened powders and blush circumstances.

With this movie, Slimane stated he wished to pay tribute to the late Richard Avedon, whom he described as a “pricey buddy and mentor.” He did the legendary photographer proud.