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Celine expands Haute Parfumerie bath and body collection

French luxury brand Celine is continuing its push into beauty, after announcing its first cosmetics products, with an extension of its Haute Parfumerie collection bath and body line. The collection, created by the French house’s artistic director Hedi Slimane, is expanding to include a liquid soap, body milk, hand cream, and hair mist later this...

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Is Hedi Slimane exiting Celine?

Since the beginning of April, speculation has been rife regarding the potential departure of Hedi Slimane from Celine and LVMH. Mr. Slimane assumed the role of Celine’s creative director in January 2018, purportedly under a six-year contract. This contract came up for renewal early in 2024, and despite ongoing negotiations, no announcement...

Fashion |Beauty

Celine unveils push into beauty with lipstick

Celine teased its expansion into beauty with the first cosmetics line in the French fashion house’s history on its Instagram account. The fashion film for its autumn/winter 2024 ‘La Collection De L’Arc De Triomphe’ collection revealed models striding through the streets of Paris, wearing the brand’s ‘La Peau Nue’ rose-hued lipstick, one of the...

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Celine continues to defy convention with surprise Parisian fashion show

Hedi Slimane dropped a surprise fashion show on the Celine website. The brand eschewed Paris Fashion Week instead unveiling its women’s Spring Summer 2024 collection on its own calendar. Celine stands out among luxury brands as one of the very few, if not the only one, to embrace the digital format that became popular during lockdowns and...

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Celine cancels fashion show as France mourns

French fashion house Celine has cancelled its menswear show in Paris this weekend due to ongoing riots sparked by the police killing of a teenager, designer Hedi Slimane said Saturday. "A fashion show in Paris, while France and its capital are bereaved and bruised, seems... inconsiderate and totally misplaced," Slimane wrote in French on...

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Celine to return to the catwalk for its AW23 womenswear

A Celine women’s SS23 catwalk presentation never materialised this season, instead the French luxury house will unveil a film on its website and social media later this month. For AW23, however, Celine will return to the runway, albeit outside of Paris fashion week and two months ahead of the major show season. According to WWD, Celine will show...

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The world's Top 50 luxury brands lost 7.6 billion dollars in value this year

It has not been a good year for global luxury. The total value of the world’s top 50 most valuable luxury and premium brands plummeted 7.6 billion dollars, down 5 percent from 227.1bn dollars in 2020 to 219.5bn dollars in 2021. The figures were revealed in the annual Brand Finance report Luxury and Premium 50 2021, which saw the value of fashion...

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LVMH releases first comprehensive social and environmental report

French luxury group LVMH on Monday released its “first comprehensive social and environmental report,” in which it highlights its initiatives to support sustainable growth. It is the first time the Group published a consolidated report of its social and environmental commitments and initiatives. An independent audit shows the Group’s carbon...

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The post-pandemic silhouette according to Celine

Taken from the succession of digital runway shows that presented during the last Parisian Fashion Week, the Celine house presented its fall-winter 2021 collection last week. French garden with an electric runway Once again, the collection is presented in front of a castle. At the same location of the menswear FW21 presentation, Celine's women's...

Culture

Hedi Slimane to show solo exhibition in Shanghai

Celine’s artistic director, Hedi Slimane, is to hold a solo exhibition of his work as a multi-disciplinary artist at the Almine Rech gallery in Shanghai. The exhibition, titled “Sun of Sound”, will run from March 19 to April 30, and mark the first time Slimane has shown solo works in China. In addition to Hedi Slimane influencing an entire...

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Video: Celine Summer 21 collection

In this video, Celine shows her Summer 21 collection which was filmed in Monaco at Stade Louis II. The video was directed and styled by Hedi Slimane. Watch the video below. Source: Celine via YouTube

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Celine debuts SS21 streetwear collection from Monaco

A stadium in Monaco was the backdrop for Celine’s SS21 womenswear collection. Titled “portrait of a generation” by its Creative Director Hedi Slimane, it debuted online as a filmed catwalk show on Tuesday. It was a story of youth where streetwear dominated. From afar it looked like any typical teenager clad in Converse, cut-off jeans, a K Way...