Really, Hedi's the perfect person to see Celine through the expansion to lifestyle and beauty. When people ask, reasonably, "Why is Celine selling pet supplies?" and "Why is Hedi Slimane selling soap?", he will just plow forward with "DOG ACCESSORIES HAVE BEEN AN IMPORTANT SPECIALTY AT THE ANCIENT AND NOBLE HOUSE OF CELINE SINCE 1867, WHEN HELENA VIPIANA WAS HAVING AN ESPRESSO ON HER PORCH AND SPOTTED SOMEONE WALKING A DOG. OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER, HELENA'S GRANDDAUGHTER, CELINE VIPIANA, WAS SITTING AT HER DESK REVIEWING INVENTORY SPREADSHEETS WHEN SHE HEARD A DOG BARK OUTSIDE AND WONDERED WHAT BREED IT WAS.
TODAY, CREATIVE/ARTISTIC/STYLISTIC/PHOTOGRAPHIC/CASTING DIRECTOR HEDI SLIMANE, WHO ALSO SAW A DOG ONCE, DURING HIS YOUTH IN PARIS, WHICH HE SPENT ALONE BEING SKINNY AND LAYING ON HIS BED LISTENING TO THE PROVOCATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL UNDERGROUND MUSICIAN DAVID BOWIE BUT ALSO WALKING AROUND PARIS WITH HIS FRIENDS SMELLING THINGS HE WOULD LATER NAME PERFUMES AFTER, PAYS TRIBUTE TO OUR FOUR-LEGGED FRIENDS WITH CELINE'S NEW BARK DE TRIOMPHE LINE.
CELINE'S DOG COLLARS ARE MADE OF THE FINEST ALLIGATOR (ALLIGATOR MISSISSIPPIENSIS) AND ARE SAFE FOR EXTENDED WEAR BY DOGS AND EMO HEDIBOYS ALIKE." until everyone just accepts it as unremarkable that Hedi Slimane signs off on dog toys for Celine in between making experimental short films of people in skinny pants to pass off as fashion shows and building the most OCD fragrance line known to man.
