Celine Dion documented her every move during the Couture Fashion Week in Paris. Thanks to Vogue’s social media.The move is part of a project called “#CelineTakesCouture.”
The artist not only graced social media with amazing shots and outfits but also opened up about her love for haute couture as she delivered some pretty cool quotes.
“The clothes follow me; I do not follow the clothes.”
In case you haven’t ben paying any attention, Celine Dion is pretty much ruling the celebrity fashion world. And she was just crowned by Vogue as the regent queen.The Canadian icon and the fashion magazine teamed up to deliver #CelineTakesCouture, a project that follows the haute couture IT girl during Fashion Week.
Celine took a break from her current European tour for a high note of high fashion and Vogue. In just one week, Dion wore outfits from high-end designers like Christian Dior and Giambattista Valli as she attended their runway shows and sat next to the very Anne Wintour herself.
Celine has also posed good-naturedly for paparazzi while walking through hallways and heading to her car on the street. “Celine Dion doesn’t try to hide her feelings,” the photo’s caption read.
“Her candor is one of her many charms, coupled with lovely manners and an emotional transparency that’s unique to anyone.”
The Canadian songstress stunning shots even include one sultry photo of herself nude with a rather awesome caption. “Here’s a little naked fact to ponder while Celine Dion changes looks between show,” the Vogue caption read alongside the picture.
Dion is later quoted in the lengthy caption, opening up about how she often alters her haute couture numbers: “The clothes follow me; I do not follow the clothes.”
Celine lives for fashion
Celine Dion is actually a couture geek. She knows the weight of Versace’s beaded dresses and how Giambattista Valli’s chiffon straps actually sit on the shoulders. Because she has worn haute couture looks almost exclusively during her shows for the last five years.
Dion doesn’t just pluck her stage outfits straight from the runway, she instructs the ateliers to adapt them for the stage. That’s how much she loves haute couture.
Velcro panels are added to bodices to allow the singer’s ribcage to expand, and to facilitate quick outfit changes. Also, elastic is added to avoid the delicate fabric from ripping. Her shoes are all refitted with metal shanks for support. Every minute detail is considered.
Says Celine, “We have to make haute couture industrial”’ While she’s always been an influencer when it comes to style, she truly reached juggernaut status last year when she teamed up with “image architect” Law Roach.
Law Roach is the stylist mastermind behind other iconic celebrity styles for women like Zendaya and Ariana Grande.
The poster girl for avant-garde
Fashion world’s craze over Celine Dion might seem to have happened all of the sudden this year, but in fact it cooked slowly last year.
However, it’s undeniable that it reached the peak this year. Riding high after her first appearance at the Met Gala this year, to which she wore a deconstructed Versace gown with a higher-than-thigh-high slit.
She was seen fraternising with Anna Wintour on the frows in Paris, given the Giambattista Valli’s haute couture show a standing ovation and gracing Vogue’s Instagram account.Close watchers of Dion’s career would not be surprised to discover that she likes fashion. But it wasn’t until last year that her more surprising, leftfield fashion credentials crystallised.
First, she was spotted in a leather trench coat made by Off-White, the in-the-know brand run by Kanye West collaborator Virgil Abloh.Next, she was snapped in a neon yellow dress made by Balenciaga, which was very meaningful because the house had recently hired an ice-cool creative director.
By Vogue’s estimation, Dion was “the first celebrity to wear any new Balenciaga piece under Demna Gvasalia’s creative direction”.
Vetements created a cult, merch-style hoodie, emblazoned with a picture of Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. And in a seminal moment of self-reference last summer, Dion wore it on the streets of Paris, showing she had the chops to not only be a fashion icon, but one who could rise above the parapet and have a laugh at the same time.
All of this is evidence of her new status as everything the fashion industry never knew it wanted. A message that was firmly underlined during the haute couture shows this week, when Dion’s unbridled zeal for frocks in the front row earned her the vital key for anyone wanting to reach iconic status in 2017: a hashtag.
And she did.
Source: Time