this is how it feels to see some of your favorite posters having opposing viewpoints in here 💔
jokes aside, as funny as it would be for Rider’s collection to fail, it’s unrealistic to think it will. for better or for worse, Hedi came in and did what the executives hired him for and made Celine mainstream (for lack of better wording).
as much as purists like to put fashion on a pedestal, it’s a business at the end of the day. and most people don’t really care about all the finer details.
take matcha, for example. it was essentially a fancier, niche version of coffee. but as soon as demand boomed (thanks TikTok), supply went down, prices went up, “fake” matcha from non-traditional origins made incorrectly flooded the market, etc.
i’m sure the only complaint from supply chains is they can’t make more to sell more. but for the purists and ogs that enjoy matcha for the preparation ceremony, cultural/spiritual roots, and/or flavor profile, they’re left with paying higher prices, if they can even find some in stock, while trend hoppers don’t even care about the quality as they just take it with artificial syrups and milk to take pictures for social media.
same with Celine. your average person probably doesn’t care who’s creative director so as long as they have things to buy that they like. so as messy as Rider’s collection was, it was smart to go for different directions to get a pulse on what will sell better and pivot towards it. like Albert Einstein used to say, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.