Dressing Like a 1920s Socialite Never Looked This Good With CELINE’s SS25 Collection
The Bright Young Things are back—draped in summer cashmere, embroidered in decadence, dressing like they own the world, or at least the afternoon
A return to decadence
It’s easy to imagine them: somewhere in an English garden, draped across wicker chairs, cigarette smoke curling above silver buttons.
They laugh like the world is ending tomorrow, like they are its rightful heirs.
They are the Bright Young Things—young, rich, reckless, impossible. And now, in CELINE’s SS25 collection, they are back.
Hedi Slimane is designing clothes and reanimating ghosts.
The collection, titled The Bright Young, is a love letter to 1920s Anglomania, that feverish obsession with all things English that once ruled Versailles and later infected London’s most decadent socialites.
The uniforms of Hedi’s visionaries—trimmed jackets, cricket whites, and boating blazers—are a manifesto.
CELINE’s tailoring is carved from nostalgia: English cloth, rewoven from 1920s summer cashmere and wool, like a memory you can wear.
Trompe l’oeil embroidery plays tricks on the eye, like a secret only the wearer knows.
Rowing jackets, detailed by hand in CELINE’s couture ateliers, gleam with heraldic patches—polished silver embroidery techniques once reserved for military uniforms, now stitched onto the bodies of those who war only with boredom.
Then there are the shoes: Richelieus, monks, and tapered derbies, so sharp they could draw blood.
They belong to the type who stroll through Mayfair at dawn, pockets lined with champagne corks, their fortunes and futures both inherited and uncertain.
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The dream beyond
Hedi’s vision does not stop at clothing. The collection conjures a world—a stage set with black bicycles in natural leather, wicker baskets spilling with Norfolk-cut flowers, and canoes drifting lazily under an English sky. A dream that looks effortless but is, in fact, deliberate.
“It is now fashionable among young people to copy the English style when dressing,” wrote Louis-Sébastien Mercier in 1781.
Hedi must have smiled reading that. Fashionable? Maybe. But more than that—it is a way of saying: We are the ones who write history now.
The Bright Young Things were always more than just beautiful—they were mythic.
And for Spring/Summer ’25, CELINE has dressed them accordingly.
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