Celine has named Michael Rider as its new Artistic Director, changing Hedi Slimane, who will depart the luxurious model after seven years on the helm.
Efficient from early 2025, Rider can have the whole artistic accountability for all Celine collections, together with womenswear, menswear, leather-based items, equipment and couture.
It comes after the American designer beforehand served as a Design Director on the luxurious model, working at Celine for a 10-year interval that spanned Phoebe Philo’s tenure.
Most just lately, he was Artistic Director at Polo Ralph Lauren, a place he held since 2018 however left in Could. He was additionally beforehand a Senior Designer at Balenciaga from 2004-2008.
“I’m delighted to welcome Michael again to Celine, a maison that he is aware of intimately,” stated Severine Merle, CEO of Celine.
“Michael’s artistic expertise, collectively together with his real nature and powerful connection to Celine’s heritage make him a pure option to proceed to construct a long-lasting success for the maison.”
Rider replaces Hedi Slimane, who joined Celine as Inventive, Artistic and Picture Director in 2018 after Philo’s departure. The information follows months of swirling rumours that Slimane was subsequent in line to take over the reins at rival Parisian home Chanel.
Slimane was beforehand the Inventive Director of menswear at Kering-owned Yves Saint Laurent till 2000 when he joined Dior Homme. He left Dior in 2007 and returned to Yves Saint Laurent in 2012 as Artistic Director, later exiting the enterprise in 2016.
His function at Celine, which he held since 2018, has encompassed a wider remit for the French style home, having been charged with extending the luxurious model into menswear, couture and fragrances. With Slimane on the helm, Celine stated goodbye to smooth shirts and pale silks and hey to an edgier, grungier and darker aesthetic.
After a profitable six-year stint as Inventive Director, throughout which Celine reworked right into a megabrand, Slimane now arms over the reigns to Rider.
“Underneath [Slimane’s] artistic and creative course, Celine has skilled distinctive progress and established itself as an iconic French couture home,” Celine stated in a press release earlier at present.
“The extraordinary journey taken collectively over the past seven years has made Celine a home with a formidable basis for the long run.”
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