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♪ Joop! There it is! Joop! There it is! ♪Nobody's mentioned Joop! yet?
Chanel, Chanel, Chanel — you all have such narrow minds. There are so many possibilities. Who says the brand even has to be active? There are lots of fashion houses waiting to be Slimaned!
One of the hottest brands now — Loewe — was seen as hopelessly passé and irrelevant just a decade ago. Less than twenty years ago, Celine was ignored by the fashionable set, and Balenciaga had long been closed. Pierre Cardin was licensed to cheaply made discount store goods, Mugler was reduced to a perfume line, and Courrèges was a footnote in fashion history books. So again, why limit one’s sights to the list of usual big names like Chanel and Dior?
There are many houses and brands that were once major players that are now barely around, just waiting for a renewal:
• Aquascutum
• Byblos
• Cacharel
• Nino Cerruti
• Costume National
• Escada
• Louis Féraud
• Romeo Gigli
• Krizia
• Guy Laroche
• Léonard
• Pringle
• Trussardi
And there are plenty of dead houses to be revived out there. If Schiaparelli can rise like Lazarus, why not one of these?
• Oleg Cassini
• Jacques Fath
• Gianfranco Ferré
• Grès
• Ted Lapidus
• Lucien Lelong
• Claude Montana
• Hanae Mori
• Paul Poiret
• Sonia Rykiel
• Jean-Louis Scherrer
• Torrente
• Vionnet
Calvin Klein ?Nobody's mentioned Joop! yet?
Calvin got the new girl Veronica Leoni...the image of the brand is tarnished forever after Raf's disastrous tenure, people are gonna think of CK as a tacky underwear brand, so any brand elevation strategy is going to fail miserablyCalvin Klein ?
Going from Bruce Weber studs to pubescent twinks.
FIFYRealistically how long do you think we have before LVMHreformulatesdiscontinues the Celine perfumes?
😒 You're right.FIFY
They won’t. They didn’t discontinued his fragrances from Dior so no reason to discontinue the Celine fragrances.Realistically how long do you think we have before LVMH reformulates the Celine perfumes?
They won’t. They didn’t discontinued his fragrances from Dior so no reason to discontinue the Celine fragrances.
But the prices will probably increase.
I don’t know if Rider will be involved in the perfumes. Even if Hedi is the only one credited, I think they should appoint somebody as a head perfumer to deal with it.
I've only gotten interested in fragrance in the last few years. Very curious if you think any of the current versions of the fragrances released under Hedi still resemble the original to any appreciable degree. I've read that even Dior Home Original isn't that close to the actual original version. And if you happen to know whether The Original Trilogy set that they're selling now is the original formulas or reformulations. I swear a few months ago the description on Dior's site actually mentioned that they were originally released under Slimane. Now it just mentions Kurkdjian.In fact, Dior has severely reformulated the old Dior Collection Privee fragrances which were originally launched under Hedi at DH.
Where were the names released? Thanks for mentioning this!Also, the perfumes are credited to Hedi but were actually created by three different perfumers apparently: Antoine Maisondieu, Olivia Giacobetti and Annick Menardo
Yes but the reformulation is almost a curse now for the fragrance industry. Between the regulations that are changing and the cost of ingredients, brands are playing a dangerous game.Reformulate is not the same as discontinue.
In fact, Dior has severely reformulated the old Dior Collection Privee fragrances which were originally launched under Hedi at DH.
Bois d'Argent was one of my favorites and they still sell it to this day, albeit in a totally watered down, reformulated version which smells hardly as great as the original fragrance.
Having said that, I was never THAT impressed with the Celine fragrances launched under Hedi in the first place. Not bad but not extraordinary either, I think they got a little over-ambitious launching too many at the same time and not focusing on the highest possible quality. For sure it's an easy money maker for them and I wouldn't be surprised see them continued for a long time.
Also, the perfumes are credited to Hedi but were actually created by three different perfumers apparently: Antoine Maisondieu, Olivia Giacobetti and Annick Menardo