STYLE Edit: ‘provocateur’ Hedi Slimane starts with a bang – Celine’s first menswear collection
Former Dior Homme and Saint Laurent designer reveals that his creations for the spring/summer 2019 show are unisex and come in women’s sizes
One of the most hotly anticipated fashion upheavals happened this year, with the Celine spring/summer 2019 collection, which debuted the work of Hedi Slimane.
However, controversy started before the spring collection was unveiled.
In the weeks before the show, Slimane had deleted the brand’s official Instagram account, including all record of the previous designer Phoebe Philo’s work for the French luxury brand.
He also changed the Celine logo, most notably dropping the acute accent on the first “e”.
Posters were put up in protest and there was also criticism on social media, with calls for the return of the “old Céline”.
Yet all this begged the question, did “Celine” ever really need the accent anyway?
And taking that further still, what did Celine need?
Slimane would perhaps say him. More humbly: a fashion revolution, which is what the designer is known for.
