CELINE 24 / UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS / WOMEN SUMMER 2025

WHILE REREADING FRANÇOISE SAGAN’S BOOK “LA CHAMADE” TO THE SOUND OF NICO AND THE VELVET UNDERGROUND, HEDI SLIMANE DESIGNED UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS IN MAY 2024.

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THE HEROINE OF UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS WEARS A BLACK SILK JERSEY HEADBAND WITH A SHORT FRINGE AND A LONG OR SHORT BOB, A SHARP STREAK OF EYELINER TRACES THE MEMORY AND MELANCHOLY OF A YOUTHFUL FRANÇOISE HARDY, RECENTLY DEPARTED, TO WHOM HEDI PAYS TRIBUTE HERE.

THE RETURN OF THE PLEATED BOARDING SCHOOL SKIRT SUIT, TAILORED IN LIGHT SUMMER CASHMERE OR HAND-EMBROIDERED, WITH SHORT SUMMER COATS IN SUEDE OR GLAZED LAMBSKIN, EMBROIDERED TWINSETS ADORNED WITH SEQUINS, WORN OVER SUSPENDED PENCIL SKIRTS OR MINI A-LINE SKIRTS.

IN 2003, HEDI SLIMANE DOCUMENTED THE LONDON AND PARIS YOUTH SCENE, FROM SAINT-GERMAIN TO SOUTH KENSINGTON, WHERE UPTOWN INDIE LOLITAS WEARING BABYDOLL DRESSES STORMED THE ENGLISH CONCERT SCENE.

THE SUSPENDED SILK DRESSES IN UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS ARE HANDCRAFTED AND EMBROIDERED WITH TWO-TONE FEATHERS, SEQUINS AND GIANT RHODOID FLOWERS LACQUERED WITH CRYSTALS FROM CELINE’S ATELIERS. THE SUMMER DRESSES IN BRODERIE ANGLAISE AND IN THE SPIRIT OF JANE B., ARE ENTIRELY HAND CROCHETED AND EMBROIDERED WITH CRYSTALS AND SILVER SEQUINS. THE LONG AND ARCHITECTURAL EVENING

DRESSES ARE CUT AND DRAPED IN BLACK SILK FAILLE. CELINE NECKLACES ARE LAYERED ON LIKE BEACH ACCESSORIES ON SLEEVELESS T-SHIRTS EMBROIDERED WITH TRANSLUCENT SEQUINS.

CELINE’S GRAPHIC SLINGBACKS ARE MADE OF EXOTIC LACQUERED LEATHERS: LIZARD, PYTHON, AND CROCODILE.

THE TEEN BAG JOSÉPHINE IS MADE-TO-ORDER IN THE CELINE ATELIERS. EXTENDED WITH A CURVED HANDLE, IT CAN BE CARRIED BY HAND OR WORN ON THE SHOULDER AND WILL BE AVAILABLE IN POLISHED OR LACQUERED SHADES OF CROCODILE OR RUBY, EMERALD AND AMBER LIZARD.

UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS

A PERFUME BY HEDI SLIMANE FOR CELINE

OLFACTORY JOURNAL

THE NEWEST CREATION IN THE HAUTE PARFUMERIE LINE CREATED BY HEDI SLIMANE, “UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS” IS WORN BY THE MODELS IN THE EPONYMOUS FILM.

“ ‘UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS’ CAME TO LIFE AT MY BEACH HOUSE IN RAMATUELLE WITH ITS PERFUMED GARDEN FACING THE SPARKLING MEDITERRANEAN, BATHING IN SUMMER LANGUOR, LISTENING TO NICO, BIRKIN, HARDY.

IT’S THE MEMORY OF GRECO, WHOM I LOVED, MET, AND PHOTOGRAPHED IN SAINT-GERMAIN TEN YEARS AGO, AND WHO LIVED JUST A STONE’S THROW FROM ME IN HER HOUSE IN L’ESCALET.

I RECALL THESE YOUTHFUL IMAGES OF GRECO AND ANNABELLE BUFFET WITH THEIR NATURAL FRENCH ELEGANCE HAVING FUN IN THE ALLEYS OF THE OLD VILLAGE.

‘UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS’ IS A NOSTALGIC TRIBUTE TO THE LAST SIX SUMMERS SPENT IN SAINT TROPEZ, BUT ALSO TO TEENAGE MEMORIES OF THE BEACHES OF THE CÔTE D’AZUR, WITH FIRST LOVES, GOLD AND SUNBURNT SKIN BENEATH A VEIL OF AMBERED CREAM.”

— HEDI SLIMANE

NOTES:

BERGAMOT, PETITGRAIN, NEROLI, JASMINE, VANILLA, GORSE ACCORD

CELINE BEAUTÉ

LES YEUX CELINE

THE CELINE MODELS IN THE FILM “UN ÉTÉ FRANÇAIS” WEAR EYELINER IN THE SPIRIT OF GRECO FROM THE NEW CELINE BEAUTÉ COLLECTION, CREATED BY HEDI SLIMANE.

MUSÉES ET DOMAINE NATIONAUX DU CHÂTEAU DE COMPIÈGNE

ON 14 MAY 1770, IN THE FOREST OF COMPIÈGNE, MARIE-ANTOINETTE FIRST MET LOUIS-AUGUSTE, DAUPHIN OF FRANCE AND FUTURE KING LOUIS XVI.

ONCE THE SUMMER RESIDENCE OF THE COURT, IT WAS LOUIS XV AND HIS ARCHITECT ANGE-JACQUES GABRIEL WHO TRANSFORMED AND EXTENDED THE PALAIS ROYAL OF COMPIÈGNE IN 1751.

RESTORED ON THE ORDERS OF NAPOLEON I TO PROVIDE A HOME FOR HIS SECOND WIFE, EMPRESS MARIE-LOUISE, IT BECAME THE FAVOURITE PALACE OF NAPOLEON III AND EMPRESS EUGÉNIE.

FOR YEARS, THE “SÉRIES DE COMPIÈGNE” WERE HELD HERE, EACH GATHERING WELCOMING THE CROWNED HEADS AND GREATEST FIGURES OF THE FRENCH SECOND EMPIRE.

MUSIC

“FEMME FATALE”

WRITTEN AND COMPOSED BY LOU REED

PERFORMED BY THE VELVET UNDERGROUND AND NICO

CELINE HOMME - SUMMER 2025 - THE BRIGHT YOUNG

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CELINE 23
THE BRIGHT YOUNG
SUMMER 2025

THE TRADITIONALLY CANVAS-MADE TAILORING OF “THE BRIGHT YOUNG” IS MADE OF ENGLISH CLOTH, CRAFTED FROM 1920S SUMMER CASHMERES AND

WOOL, REWOVEN FOR CELINE.

TRIMMED JACKETS, CRICKET, AND BOATING BLAZERS, ARE ALSO MADE WITH SUMMER CASHMERE FLANNELS.

THE TROMPE L’OEIL COUTURE PIECES ON A ROWING JACKET ARE ENTIRELY HAND-EMBROIDERED IN CELINE’S EMBROIDERY AND COUTURE ATELIERS.

THE HERALDIC CELINE PATCHES IN POLISHED SILVER CANNETILLES COILING ARE A REPRODUCTION OF EMBROIDERY TECHNIQUES. IN KEEPING WITH THE EARLY 20TH-CENTURY MILITARY UNIFORM TRADITION.

THE WHITE SUMMER CASHMERE FLANNELS NATURALLY REFER TO FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD IN 1922 AT THE HOTEL EDEN ROC (ANTIBES, FRANCE), BUT ALSO TO THE “CRICKET WHITES”.

THE RICHELIEU SHOES, MONKS AND TAPERED DERBIES ARE ALSO ANCHORED IN A 1920S ENGLISH SPIRIT, REVIVED IN 2002 BY THE ENGLISH SCENE.

ENGLISH GARDEN

CELINE SUITS ARE WORN WITH WAISTCOATS IN DAMASK OR HAND-EMBROIDERED IN 1920S MOTIFS OF ENGLISH FIELD FLOWERS.

UNDER THE BLACK BARATHEA WOOL CELINE TAILCOATS, LINED WITH HAND-SEWN TRIMS, THE SILK FAILLE GILETS ARE HAND-EMBROIDERED IN CELINE’S ATELIERS WITH “ENGLISH GOTHIC” FLORAL MOTIFS COMPOSED OF SEQUINS, CRYSTALS AND HIGH-GLOSS BLACK, GOLD AND SILVER PEARLS.

HEDI SLIMANE DESIGNED ENGLISH BLACK BICYCLES IN NATURAL LEATHER FOR CELINE. THE WICKER BASKETS AND CANOES ARE ADORNED WITH NORFOLK CUT FLOWERS FOR THE FILM SET.

HEDI SLIMANE AND ANGLOMANIA

“IT IS NOW FASHIONABLE AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE TO COPY THE ENGLISH STYLE WHEN DRESSING.”

LOUIS-SEBASTIEN MERCIER
TABLEAU DE PARIS (1781)

AS A STUDENT AT THE ECOLE DU LOUVRE IN THE LATE ’80S, HEDI SLIMANE BEGAN WRITING AN ESSAY ON ANGLOMANIA -- FROM THE COMTE D'ARTOIS, WHO INITIATED ANGLOMANIA AT VERSAILLES, TO THE LIONS DES BOULEVARDS, IN THE WAKE OF BEAU BRUMMEL. HE WAS ALSO RESEARCHING STEPHEN JAMES NAPIER TENNANT (RECOGNISED AS THE ORIGINAL PARTY ANIMAL) AND CECIL BEATON WHICH WAS PART OF HIS ENTOURAGE. WITH “THE BRIGHT YOUNG” COLLECTION, HEDI SLIMANE REVIVES THIS 30-YEAR-OLD PROJECT.

À REBOURS

MODELS FROM “THE BRIGHT YOUNG” FILM ARE WEARING HEDI SLIMANE'S NEW FRAGRANCE FOR CELINE'S HAUTE PARFUMERIE COLLECTION, “À REBOURS”.

THE FRAGRANCE EVOKES THE REMINISCENCES OF JEAN DES ESSEINTES, THE DECADENT DANDY IMAGINED BY JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS IN HIS GROUNDBREAKING WORK, “À REBOURS” (1884).

(NOTES: OAK MOSS, CEDAR, NUTMEG, COUMARIN, CASHMERAN).

HOLKHAM HALL

THE BRIGHT YOUNG WAS DIRECTED BY HEDI SLIMANE AT HOLKHAM HALL, NORFOLK, JUNE 2024.

CELINE WISHES TO THANK THE EARL OF LEICESTER AND HIS FAMILY, AS WELL AS GEORGE WILCOX AND BELLE HUTTON FOR THEIR HOSPITALITY.

HARRY, WHO OPENS THE SHOW, IS A 20-YEAR-OLD BRITISH ACTOR AND FORMER ETONIAN. HE IS RIDING A HORSE NAMED JUPITER IN THE GARDENS OF HOLKHAM HALL.

MUSIC

LES INDES GALANTES, 1736

THE OPERA BALLET “LES INDES GALANTES” IS THE BAROQUE MASTERPIECE BY JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU.

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU (1683-1764), ADMIRED BY VOLTAIRE AND JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, IS REGARDED AS THE GREATEST FRENCH COMPOSER OF THE 18TH CENTURY. THE OPERA BALLET “LES INDES GALANTES” WAS FIRST PERFORMED ON AUGUST 23, 1735, AT THE THÉÂTRE DU PALAIS-ROYAL, PARIS, WHILE “L’ENTRÉE DES SAUVAGES” WAS FIRST PERFORMED ON MARCH 12, 1736. “LES INDES GALANTES”, A MAJOR WORK OF THE FRENCH LYRICAL REPERTOIRE, WAS OVERLOOKED FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS. IT WAS COMMISSIONED AND PERFORMED IN 1957 AT THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE AT THE CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES IN THE PRESENCE OF THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND ON HER OFFICIAL VISIT TO FRANCE.

HOLKHAM, NORFOLK, ENGLAND

JUNE 2024

MAKE-UP ARTIST AARON DE MEY

HAIR STYLIST ESTHER LANGHAM

HAIR COLORIST ALEX BROWNSELL

CELINE Homme Winter 24 ‘SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE’

IN 1969, BERNSTEIN DESCRIBES THE "SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE" AS THE FIRST PSYCHEDELIC SYMPHONY EVER COMPOSED, AND MORE THAN 100 YEARS BEFORE THE DAWN OF THE MOVEMENT IN THE LATE 1960’S.

"(...)THOSE SOUNDS YOU'RE HEARING COME FROM THE FIRST PSYCHEDELIC SYMPHONY IN HISTORY, THE FIRST MUSICAL DESCRIPTION EVER MADE OF A TRIP, WRITTEN ONE HUNDRED THIRTY ODD YEARS BEFORE THE BEATLES, WAY BACK IN 1830 BY THE BRILLIANT FRENCH COMPOSER HECTOR BERLIOZ. HE CALLED IT "SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE", OR "FANTASTIC", AND FANTASTIC IT IS, IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD, INCLUDING PSYCHEDELIC".

HEDI SLIMANE DISCOVERED THE "SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE" AT THE AGE OF 11 AND BECAME PASSIONATE ABOUT THE ROMANTIC MUSICAL PIECE BY THE YOUNG BERLIOZ.

HECTOR BERLIOZ WAS ONLY 26 YEARS OLD WHEN HE WAS IN AN OBSESSIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH ENGLISH ACTRESS HARRIET SMITHSON, WHICH LED HIM TO COMPOSE THE "SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE" ON DECEMBER 5TH 1830 IN PARIS.

"NOW I'M SURE THAT ANY OF YOU WHO HAS EVER HAD A CRUSH ON SOMEONE WHO DIDN'T RETURN YOUR FEELING WILL UNDERSTAND THAT PASSIONATE MELODY PERFECTLY; AND YOU CAN EASILY SEE HOW A LOVESICK MUSICIAN COULD BECOME OBSESSED BY IT. AND IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU'RE READY TO HEAR THE SYMPHONY". - LEONARD BERNSTEIN, MAY 1969

"THERE IS SOMETHING NEW TO BE DONE" WROTE BERLIOZ IN 1830 "AND A LOT OF IT, I FEEL WITH EXTREME ENERGY".

BERLIOZ DEFINED HIS MUSICAL DRAMA "SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE", WRITTEN BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND APRIL 1830, – AS AN "IMMENSE INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION OF A NEW GENRE". COMPOSED IN THE MIDST OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD, HECTOR BERLIOZ EXCELS IN THE SPACIALIZATION OF HIS ORCHESTRATION.

IN THE AFTERMATH OF ITS FIRST PUBLIC PRESENTATION, CRITICS WERE TAKEN ABACK BY ITS MODERNITY AND REVIEWED IT AS "THE ALMOST INCONCEIVABLE STRANGENESS THAT ONE COULD EVER IMAGINE".

HEDI SLIMANE TAILORING FOR CELINE

THE "SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE" COLLECTION MARKS THE RETURN OF TAILORING, IN HEDI SLIMANE’S PURE SARTORIAL TRADITION. THE "I" LINE IS A CHARAC- TERISTIC OF HIS SILHOUETTE AND OF THE 1960S TAILORING INSPIRED BY THE ANGLOMANIA OF THE 19TH CENTURY. THE FROCK COATS, 3 BUTTONED SUITS, AND HAND EMBROIDERED WAISTCOATS, ARE EXCLUSIVELY CUT FROM THE UTMOST PRECIOUS AND LUXURIOUS FABRICS SUCH AS SILK, CASHMERE, AND VICUNA. MATTE BLACK, SATIN AND LACQUERED DOMINATE THROUGHOUT THE COLLECTION.

DOUG WESTON’S TROUBADOUR

THE ICONIC TROUBADOUR CLUB IN WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA FIRST OPENED IN 1957. THE VENUE HAS HOSTED LIVE PERFORMANCES FROM SOME OF THE BIGGEST ARTISTS OVER THE LAST SIX DECADES, INCLUDING JONI MITCHELL, NEIL YOUNG, CAROLE KING, JAMES TAYLOR, TOM WAITS, THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, METALLICA, GUNS N ROSES, PEARL JAM, RADIOHEAD, FRANZ FERDINAND, THE STROKES AND MORE. NOTABLY ELTON JOHN GOT HIS U.S. BREAK AT THE TROUBADOUR IN 1970, INTRODUCED BY NEIL DIAMOND. DOUG WESTON, THE CLUB'S FOUNDER, ONCE REFERRED TO THE LINE-UP AS "MODERN-DAY TROUBADOURS", A TERM USED TO DESCRIBE FRENCH POETS AND MUSICIANS FROM THE 11TH TO 13TH CENTURY. THE TROUBADOUR CONTINUES TO BE A LANDMARK DESTINATION FOR ACTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

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