Celine By Menichetti s.s.05

Lena · Oct 7, 2004

a preview from today's show (the red dress looks like the one from my ss05 capsule line )
love those clever sandals

French Flavor

PARIS — Don’t expect Roberto Menichetti, who will show his first collection for Celine here today, to tap into patterns and motifs from exotic places like so many European designers this season. “I was inspired by the allure of Parisian women,” he said during a preview on Wednesday. “It’s a kind of femininity you can’t find anywhere else in the world. I really would like to give [Celine] this kind of allure.”

The fact that Menichetti is already mining Celine’s bourgeois French roots — and referencing French painter Sonia Delaunay — suggests the Italian designer isn’t planning a major overhaul of the 59-year-old brand, which is part of the LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton fashion empire. “I really believe in the product, and I really believe in this job,” he said between fittings on Wednesday. “Everything has to be real.” Unprompted, Menichetti expressed admiration for the work done by his predecessor, Michael Kors, who exited Celine last spring after a successful, if bumpy, six-year stint to concentrate on building his signature label. “Michael made Celine international,” he said. “I think he did a very nice job.”

Menichetti — whose design career has included working for Claude Montana in Paris, Burberry in London, Jil Sander in Hamburg, Germany, and doing his own signature line, which he continues to show in New York — is no slouch himself in the global department. This American-born resident of Gubbio, a medieval town nestled in Italy’s Umbrian hills, confesses a strong affinity for the U.S. and the sportswear attitude for which it’s known. “I really believe Celine must not be vulgar at all,” he said. “We’re trying to find a new way to be elegant.”

For spring, Menichetti is concentrating on soft shapes, such as shift dresses with slightly bubble-shaped skirts. “It’s extremely important how you can respect and give shape to the body,” the designer said. “Everything caresses.” His fascination with how clothes are constructed is evident in a Grecian-style dress based on the construction of a kilt — and expect to see some dark blues, his signature shade.

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runner · Oct 7, 2004

thanks Lena
I hope he will succeed in finding that new way to be elegant.

helena · Oct 7, 2004

oh Lena - i didn't know you were a designer! I wasn't sure what you did for a living. Lucky you! The red dress is absolutely lovely - where do you sell your collections - Paris? The blue & white dress is lovely too.

softgrey · Oct 7, 2004

ok...i'm waiting...

thx lena...

Strikingly Chloe · Oct 7, 2004

Very anthropologie, clean and new. I like it.

softgrey · Oct 7, 2004

Originally posted by Strikingly Chloe@Oct 7 2004, 08:27 AM
Very anthropologie, clean and new. I like it.

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do you mean the store???...

stylegurrl · Oct 7, 2004

I hope the rest of the collection is better.

pradaromance · Oct 7, 2004

Originally posted by stylegurrl@Oct 7 2004, 10:50 AM
I hope the rest of the collection is better.

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me too

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jofaye · Oct 8, 2004

hello! I want to where can find more about "celine spring-summer 2005" pics?

HK singer "faye wong" is having a runway show???

LibertyRose · Oct 8, 2004

Faye sat at the front row of Celine.

Too bad she had to witness such a horrible show.

jofaye · Oct 8, 2004

Originally posted by LibertyRose@Oct 8 2004, 12:52 PM
Faye sat at the front row of Celine.

Too bad she had to witness such a horrible show.

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sorry! i'm not very good in English....

u mean faye wong had seen the celine show, but she is not having a runway ?

Have any photo can find?

runner · Oct 8, 2004

Celine: Roberto Menichetti Rings in the New

October 07, 2004 - Paris

Thursday’s most anticipated show in the Paris season was staged in the Espace Ephemere, a custom-made show tent in the south west corner of the Tuileries Gardens, where Roberto Menichetti presented his debut collection for French brand Celine.

If the executives who hired Menichetti wanted a fresh approach, they certainly got one as Roberto blew off the polished, though predictable, hard luxury of former designer Michael Kors in favor of a brighter, hipper and younger aesthetic.

Nothing summed up the change the Italian designer introduced better than the color palette. In came a brilliant blend of sharp yellows, cool grays, turquoises and vivid beiges, mixed with some great abstract mid-century prints; out went the black, brown and white neutrals of Kors.

Roberto also banished the more typical supermodels favored by his predecessor for the new hot catwalkers of the moment, like Gemma Ward and Heather Marks.

Roberto concentrated his fire on developing smart, modernistic looks with snug safari jackets with knotted pockets, high-waisted pleated flared skirts and some superb pants. His skill as a tailor was evident in savvy way he cut pants with diagonal pleats, assuring that they fell perfectly on the models and would do so on ordinary women too. His best look was a series of four tight, mini dresses in non-figurative Fifties print with open backs that thrillingly passed a key heterosexual acid test. Any handsome guy would spend large parts of the first date dreaming of the excitement of taking them off.

Menichetti wisely showed just a few accessories, though what there were looked chic, whether small canvas expeditionary bags or some super high heels with cut out leather straps.

There were, is has to be said, far too many banal simple tank tops and tent skirts that ballooned at the hem and would add kilos to even the slimmest of legs.

But the biggest problem of the show was the innate and inept organization. It’s true that the Espace Ephemere has now attracted a hoard of fashion groupies through which one must fight for entrance to a show. But once inside there was general pandemonium as people almost came to blows over seats.

Let’s be frank, when the president of the most important department store in Europe, Richard Simonin of Harrods, has to sit on the stairway, the best retailer in Hong Kong, Joyce Ma, is forced to stand, and the most influential editor in booming Moscow, Evelina Khromchenko of L’Officiel Russia, is stuck in a dark corner, then you know something is badly amiss. Enough said.

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FWD

meowmix · Oct 8, 2004

wong faye is still around?...
eck horrible show though

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