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Not content with shocking the fashion industry with his radical takeover of Celine, Hedi Slimane is tearing up retail – turning the French house’s stores into intriguing brutalist salons
It’s midnight on Sunday in Paris, in a basement club called Le Dandy, and the team from French fashion house Celine are celebrating. The third band of the night are playing – Brooklyn punk-funkers Bodega, who provided the soundtrack for the menswear show earlier that evening. The artist David Kramer is here with his wife – Kramer’s nostalgic, witty, Technicolor paintings featured on the show’s invitation, and slogans from his work such as, “I have nostalgia for things I probably have never known,” were transposed on to the clothes and floppy straw baskets in the spring/summer 2020 collection.
Dressed in jeans, boots and a white T-shirt speckled with holes, Hedi Slimane, Celine’s creative director, takes photographs of the crowd, a collection of models, friends and co-workers, who are all enjoying the chance to cut loose into Monday morning as Bodega tear into last year’s excellent single How Did This Happen? Continue reading...