Celine Releases 1960s Inspired-Menswear Video

Celine launched its winter 2024 menswear assortment, once more in video format, on Tuesday. Filmed within the Mojave Desert and scored by Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique, the 14-minute clip juxtaposes photographs of classic Cadillacs, tailor-made appears impressed by Nineteen Sixties Anglomania (full with mop haircuts, darkish sun shades and thin ties) and photographs of a younger cowboy recalling iconic TV Westerns of the interval.

The “Symphonie Fantastique” video is the primary menswear assortment to be proven by Celine since a video launched final November. Celine sat out Paris’ autumn-winter mens and womenswear weeks as artistic director Hedi Slimane and groups labored to supply big-budget assortment movies together with a equally 60s-inflected womenswear movie, which was launched in mid-March.

The style movies showcase Slimane’s deft talent as a stylist and photographer and have created an ultra-coherent picture for Celine because it grew quickly in recent times to grow to be proprietor LVMH’s third-biggest style model after Louis Vuitton and Dior.

However delays in releasing collections and a continued choice for movies over extra bankable, in-person happenings at style week have fuelled hypothesis of an more and more strained relationship between Slimane and the luxurious group managed by chairman Bernard Arnault.

Trade sources say LVMH has been locked in months of thorny contract negotiations with Slimane that might in the end result in the idiosyncratic expertise’s exit from the group.

Celine declined to touch upon Slimane’s contract.

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