Maison 8 of 100 · Fashion & Couture
Celine
The reading
Michael Rider’s post-Slimane Celine is being rebuilt around a Parisian wardrobe rather than a rock-star silhouette. Leather goods remain the cash register. The house is the laboratory for whether LVMH can grow a fashion brand without turning it into a tourist souvenir.
The house
- Origin
- France
- Founded
- 1945
- Atelier
- Fashion & Couture
- Ownership
- LVMH
- Signature
- Triomphe / Classic bag
- Register note
- Quiet compounder inside LVMH This line is the register’s own characterisation, not a sourced figure; see Méthode.
How the register places it
It is the 58th-oldest house in the register. LVMH holds twenty-one of the hundred, this one among them: Louis Vuitton, Dior, Fendi, Loewe, Givenchy, Loro Piana, and fourteen more. Fashion & Couture holds twenty-five houses here, and this is the 8th of them. The register's France cohort runs to twenty-six — the largest national group here — and it is one. From No. 2 to No. 100, this register's LVMH houses span ninety-nine places. The Fashion & Couture room spans 1837 to 2013 and medians at 1951, and Celine predates it by six years.