Hedi Slimane has been the creative director of Celine since 2018 and in every runway he is expressing his taste in design complementing it with the roots of the brand. His creative work for Saint Laurent and Dior Homme are a big statement in the fashion industry if we talk about menswear. His influences of street fashion photography was always present and he was so inspired by the surroundings he lived in at the moment of designing this garments. Now he is in a head space where he is reflecting all his past knowledge into pieces that talk about the current main user in clothing that is Gen Z youth.
In Celine SS23 Menswear he is referencing one of his shows at Dior Homme that was located in the same location as this one, Palais of Tokyo in Paris. For this season, he has copy the location of Rick Owens and presented again in the calendar of Paris Fashion Week, but different from the rest of brands. The set was a big arrange of light bulbs that served to reflect all the crystals and textures that the pieces in the collections had. It was full of celebrities that Gen Z love and the Asian market do too, like Lisa from Blackpink or V from BTS.
The clothing was exquisite with a lot of emphasis in shiny pieces that mixed all the cities he has lived in (London, Berlin and Los Angeles) but with a French filter over them. The men he portrait this season is the same one he has been forming since his entering in the fashion hous; one that is very stylish, non-binary and very thin body structure. With glasses in every model the designer was trying to sell the fantasy of being a rock legend under the flashes light.
Saul Gutierrez
