Celine Brand
Celine Homme Presents Its Summer 2024 Collection Show: Delusional Daydream
Luxferity, 01.12.2023
DELUSIONAL DAYDREAM
IN THE EARLY 2000’S HEDI SLIMANE STARTED TO DOCUMENT A NEW EMERGING ART SCENE IN NEW YORK THAT INCLUDED DAN COLEN, TERENCE KOH, NATE LOWMAN AND DASH SNOW TO NAME A FEW.
IN JULY OF 2007 SLIMANE CURATED A GROUPSHOW TITLED “SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH”, AT ARNDT & PARTNER IN BERLIN, FEATURING THE WORKS OF PROMINENT DOWNTOWN NEW YORK ARTISTS DASH SNOW, SLATER BRADLEY, MATHEW CERLETTY, DAN COLEN, GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON, TERENCE KOH, DOUGLAS KOLK, NATE LOWMAN, RYAN MCGINLEY, MATT SAUNDERS, STEVEN SHEARER, PAUL P., AND BANKS VIOLETTE.
LATER ON THAT SAME YEAR, WITH HIS EXHIBITION “YOUNG AMERICAN” AT THE FOAM FOTOGRAFIEMUSEUM IN AMSTERDAM, THROUGH A SERIES OF BLACK AND WHITE PORTRAITS, SLIMANE PAID TRIBUTE TO THE SAME GENERATION OF ARTISTS.
RECALLING HIS STRONG LINKS WITH THE NEW YORK ART SCENE, HEDI SLIMANE WORKED WITH DASH SNOW’S ESTATE TO CHOOSE ARTWORKS FROM HIS ARCHIVE TO INCLUDE IN THE DELUSIONAL DAYDREAM COLLECTION.
THE NEW YORK BEAT OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, AND ITS CULT SEMINAL 2005 EPONYMOUS ALBUM “LCD SOUNDSYSTEM” IS REVISITED TODAY BY A YOUNG AND VIBRANT, NEW YORK MUSIC SCENE, TO WHOM THIS SHOW IS DEDICATED.
HEDI SLIMANE STARTED PHOTOGRAPHING THIS REVIVED NEW YORK GENERATION AT THE END OF LOCKDOWN, NOTABLY THROUGH A SERIES OF PORTRAITS OF ALTERNATIVE MUSICIANS, ARTISTS, AND CLUBBERS.
THE EMERGENCE OF A STRONG, UTOPIAN, AND FREE ARTISTIC YOUTH, FROM THE AREA OF “DIMES SQUARE” TO THE BORDERS OF BROOKLYN, CONFIRMS THE RETURN OF THE NEW YORK SCENE.
PARIS/NEW YORK
THE COUTURE BUSTIERS, AND THEIR SATIN BOWS ARE INSPIRED BY THE FRENCH 17TH CENTURY COURT AND CEREMONIAL PORTRAITS, AND IN PARTICULAR BY THE ROYAL PORTRAITS OF PIERRE MIGNARD.
WRAPPED AROUND THE WAIST, THESE WIDE SATIN COMMAND SASHES, SOMETIMES EMBROIDERED WITH GOLD, WERE TIED ON THE RIGHT HIP WITH A “BALLONNÉ” KNOT. “LE TAILLEUR”, PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE COLLECTION, IS IN THE TRADITION OF THE EARLY DAYS OF SUITING AND BLACK SILHOUETTES BY HEDI SLIMANE WHEN CREATING DIOR HOMME.
THE EXCLUSIVE FABRICS ARE MOSTLY ASSEMBLED ON OLD LOOMS. HEDI SLIMANE REDISCOVERS HIS CODES OF SKINNY BLACK TIES ON WHITE SHIRTS WITH HIS SIGNATURE COLLAR NAMED “5” (FOR 5 CM). THE SHINY EFFECTS FROM THE EARLY 2000S ARE REINTRODUCED.
THE LEGS OF LOW-RISE PANTS ARE TAPERED AND EXTENDED BY A 5 HEEL, POPULARIZED BY HEDI SLIMANE IN 2005. JEANS, MOST OFTEN MADE OF PLUNGED LAMBSKIN, HAVE A SLIGHT FLARE.
“THE SHOW THAT NEVER WAS”
AFTER THE CANCELLATION OF THE MEN’S SUMMER 24 SHOW AT LA GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE IN PARIS IN JULY 2023, HEDI SLIMANE SHOT A FILM THE SAME MONTH BETWEEN PARIS AND MONACO. SCENES WERE FILMED IN PARIS AT LA GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE, AT LE GRAND REX AND AT THE MONTE-CARLO OPERA GARNIER FEATURING CLASSICAL BALLET DANCER LAURIDS SEIDEL.
DIRECTED BY HEDI SLIMANE
© HEDI SLIMANE PHOTOGRAPHY
© HEDI SLIMANE FILM
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM CYCLE
IN CONTINUITY WITH THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE CELINE WOMEN SUMMER 24 LA COLLECTION DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE, HEDI SLIMANE DELVES INTO LCD SOUNDSYSTEM’S EPONYMOUS 2005 DEBUT ALBUM: ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SOUNDS IN INDIE ELECTRONIC MUSIC
AND CLUB SCENES.
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK FOR CELINE
EXTENDED VERSION OF “LOSING MY EDGE” PERFORMED BY LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
PRODUCED BY JAMES MURPHY ENGINEERED BY KOREY RICHEY
COMMISSIONED BY HEDI SLIMANE
CASTING, STYLING AND SET DESIGN
HEDI SLIMANE
MAKE-UP ARTIST
AARON DE MEY
HAIR STYLIST
ESTHER LANGHAM
