While rereading Françoise Sagan’s book “La Chamade” to the sound of nico and the velvet underground, Hedi Slimane designed un été français in may 2024.
The heroine of un été français wears a black silk jersey headband with a short fringe and a long or short bob, a sharp streak of eyeliner traces the memory and melancholy of a youthful françoise hardy, recently departed, to whom hedi pays tribute here. The return of the pleated boarding school skirt suit, tailored in light summer cashmere or hand -embroidered, with short summer coats in suede or glazed lambskin, embroidered twinsets adorned with sequins, worn over suspended pencil skirts or mini a-line skirts.
In 2003, Hedi Slimane documented the London and Paris youth scene, from Saint-Germain to South Kensington, where uptown indie lolitas wearing babydoll dresses stormed the english concert scene. The suspended silk dresses in un été français are handcrafted and embroidered with two-tone feathers, sequins and giant rhodoid flowers l acquered with crystals from celine’s ateliers. The summer dresses in broderie angl aise and in the spirit of Jane B., are entirely hand crocheted and embroidered with crystals and silver sequins. The long and architectural evening dresses are cut and draped in black silk faille.
Celine necklaces are layered on like beach accessories on sleeveless t-shirts embroidered with translucent sequins. Celine’s graphic slingbacks are made of exotic lacquered leathers: lizard, python, and crocodile. The teen bag joséphine is made-to-order in the celine ateliers. Extended with a curved handle, it can be carried by hand or worn on the shoulder and will be available in polished or lacquered shades of crocodile or ruby, emerald and amber lizard.
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