Celine fall 2021

 WAITING ... PEOPLE DO IT ALL THE TIME!

And so, we wait for the explosive collection of one of the most over hyped, over exposed, over rated under achiever of fashion and the only sound you will hear is a resounding THUD!

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You can be a generic practically invisible fashion victim and since no one will ask “Oh, who are you wearing? “you can just wear a billboard, a sandwich sign or just announce to anyone you speak to it’s HEDI... my guess is the reaction will be ...   OH!... while they are thinking this stupid bitch paid all that money to look like that!

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No one need him to show clothes that are a cross between H&M, Forever 21 and Goodwill and yet the brilliant uneducated shameful fashion media will rave.... it speaks to the hypocrisy of the media as well as the power of the almighty dollar because it surely isn’t speaking to fashion or style!

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PS... this is the unedited collection!

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Some might remember that  byline for Celine which was  “un nom un style”  and now it is “un nom et pas de style”

Celine spring 2021

 Well … there are several schools of thought here …  been there done that, everything old is new again and mostly you better get digging in mom’s closet museum, maybe even grandma’s, then your little brother’s and sister’s and lastly your boyfriend’s.

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I mean really Hedi…. camo with Celine slapped on it, baseball caps on every exit. Useless silly beaded pieces that probably are in the mid to high thousands price wise because who doesn’t heed a beaded hoodie (that Jeanette Katzenberg did 40 years ago… think St Martin for a few hundred bucks) and oh lest I forget denim in a profusion of shapes and sizes at stratospheric prices.

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Yeah, in a way the collection speaks to the times just not in a good way, it all looks old and tired and smacks of Chanel to the point of chain link prints and cardigan jackets and oh excuse me white oversized sunglasses are a must to complete the look with slogging boots. Can we talk about glittery Amish inspired dresses?

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I don’t understand the need to spend untold amounts of money to show pedestrian, boring, unoriginal and basically totally uninspiring or unaspirational clothes that kids will never be able to afford but can certainly get the look from second hand stores and closet museums at home.

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Oh well Hedi… you didn’t disappoint you came through with flying colors as maybe one of your worst showings ever on a grand scale lowering the bar even further.

Celine men’s spring 2021

From the Vogue.com review “As a designer with a lifelong obsession with layering youth references of the past into his work, Slimane was in his element, finally being able to riff off the energy—and the wardrobes—of a live subculture…. Hearing that this pileup of pieces that might’ve been found on a kid’s bedroom floor is not exactly what grown-ups perceive as the output of a luxury goods house would be music to Slimane’s ears.”

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Well, here’s my take ... Hedi you need some help ... a therapist maybe as you are no longer young and no longer designing for kids … this is Celine where a denim “Levi” jacket is $3500, a logo tee is $375 and a pair of jeans is $770. So Hedi my fragile friend who the fuck is buying this pile that you presented for spring 2021. Sadly, it reminds me of a designer who is struggling with arrested development and might even more sadly be compared with Jeremy Scott who is also obsessed with the skate boys and the fact that he is no longer 22.

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Aside from that, there are just a few other issues like we are living thru possibly one of the worst times in the fashion business or any retail business for that matter and I highly doubt there are many men who can afford this that will actually want to look like this. I usually pick apart the casting as being too young for the clothes but here it’s not a case of miscasting it’s more of a case of how many trust fund baby boys are there in the world?

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Lastly, Hedi, the collection comes off as rather tone-deaf to the times and has no cohesive thread to the women’s in terms of the client or look so Hedi WTF are you thinking? Maybe Monsieur Arnault will have to  remind you that your job is not only about feeding and satisfying your ego!

CELINE SPRING 2020

The vogue .com  headline is Celine’s Haute Bourgeois Goes Bohemian

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I guess bohemian is skull caps, hats, jean jackets, jean vests with jeans and dresses. God bless Levis!

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All I I can say  is that there is nothing wrong with what he showed and maybe for once he did the right thing  by showing perfectly wearable  clothes for women of  every  age. No, I don’t get the Cossack vests or the need for any fur at all but what’s the difference. 

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This is just a whole bunch of clothes that now bear the Celine label and the imprimatur of the Svengali known as Hedi Slimane. He did manage to make use of the YSL archive finally!

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It’s pretty and bordering on yawn worthy and that’s all I can say. Think J Crew (pre-Jenna)  meets Un Nom Un Style meets YSL meets Ellen Tracy and then there is just one more thing ... its looks very fallish

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