After a seven-year run, Hedi Slimane is leaving Celine.
No name of a successor has been announced.
Slimane became artistic, creative and image director of Celine in February 2018, after Phoebe Philos departure.
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He was previously artistic director of menswear at Yves Saint Laurent until 2000, when he joined Dior Homme.
This is where he created the skinny silhouette that famously prompted Karl Lagerfeld to go on a diet.
He left in 2016.
In a single evening, he has blown up everything that Celine was, flushed it clean.
For AW19, he shifted to a bourgeois French girl look.
This time, it was a near-unanimous oui,Vogue Runways Sarah Mower wrote.
At the time, Celines sales were close to 1 billion.
This past weekend, during Paris Fashion Week, he also released an SS25 film titledUn Ete francais.
I was in Japan last week with Delphine [Arnault].
Where will Slimane land in his next act?
Fashion will be watching closely.
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