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.

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.