Her first namesake collection is possibly the most hyped, most anticipated, most gossiped-about new line from a formerly beloved name … well, ever.
Despite a decision not to stage a show or create any advertising, the collection was never going to sneak in under the radar.
Ms. Philo, whose transformation of both Celine and Chloé before that had gained her an obsessive following of Philophiles, was too mythic for secrecy.
The introductory collection, officially called A1, offers the kind of adult clothes that suggest a woman gets to decide for herself how she is seen.
Wearing them would make you feel briskly prepared to go out and get stuff done, while allowing a degree of secret deviance.
Persons:
Celine, Phoebe Philo, Philo, Chloé, briskly