Hedi Slimane Drops a Surprise Celine Show

Of all of the designers who stepped off the style wheel in the course of the pandemic-induced present hiatus, Hedi Slimane of Celine is without doubt one of the only a few who has not returned to the same-old-same-old runway system. As an alternative he affords up his collections when and the way he needs.

His final stay girls’s present was a part of a dual-gender extravaganza on the Wiltern theater in Los Angeles in December 2022. Then nothing — till this week, nearly a yr later, when Mr. Slimane lastly launched its sequel: a video, posted on-line and filmed within the hovering predominant studying room of the Bibliothèque Nationale, the French nationwide library, in Paris.

The setting, it turned out, was successfully a really fancy architectural metaphor for what Mr. Slimane has been doing with the model. He’s constructing a wardrobe library: one which can be utilized by quite a lot of girls, even when Mr. Slimane insists on displaying it on anemic wanting waifs. It’s one which has little to do with seasons and extra to do with the story you need to inform at any given time. Are available in, quiet down, take out the look you need for the day. The video could have been entitled “Tomboy,” nevertheless it included an assortment of genres.

Perhaps, for instance, you’re feeling black and white existential androgyny — there’s a go well with for that. Perhaps Nineties grunge, within the type of sweats or athletic shorts and tank tops below bouclé jackets or lacy little slip clothes with beanie hats and boots.

Perhaps you’re feeling extra of a BCBG minimal vibe, in blazers and flared denims and striped button-ups. Or maybe a romance, in an extended, lacy black robe. Perhaps it’s a pretend fur chubby or a La Princesse minidress bristling with gilded porcupine quills. Perhaps you need the Cliffs Notes model, through equipment: darkish shades, a sequence bag, jolie madame pumps, massive shearling boots on the lam from Courchevel.

None of this was notably new, however that’s a part of the purpose. It doesn’t actually matter that Mr. Slimane hasn’t had a girls’s present for a yr as a result of every new assortment merely picks up the place the final one left off. It’s like a serial writ in garments or a reminder that it’s not a lot our tales that change, however the best way they’re informed and the context. We’re all characters in our personal fiction. Would possibly as nicely have the instruments to decorate for it.