People who work in fashion pride themselves on being cool, calm and collected. And yet when news broke in 2021 that Phoebe Philo was set to return to the style sphere with an eponymous label, the reaction was anything but understated.
But when Philo left the French label in 2018, her followers were bereft and the market for her former collections skyrocketed. (Tagging yourself in #oldceline became the ultimate Instagram flex.)
“Phoebe Philo’s laid-back luxe style gave women the comfort and ease they had been longing for,” explains fashion historian Hannah Rochelle. “What she wore to take her bow on the catwalk at Celine was as instrumental in shaping trends as the clothes on the models themselves. After she teamed Adidas Stan Smiths – originally designed in the mid 1960s – with a roll neck and slim black trousers in 2010, the tennis shoe became a stalwart trend with women for the following decade. As did tucking one’s long hair into the aforementioned roll neck.”
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