Phoebe Philo Returns in September 2023: Sound the Trumpets!
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Paris, October 2022 had Phoebe Philo on its mind. “She was supposed to be back by now,” Jessica Testa wrote for the NYT.
“Is this the season that she’ll finally come back? That she’ll bring her vision of smart, grown-up, not overly feminine femininity to scatter like bread crumbs on a city sidewalk for the famished pigeons of fashion?”
It was a no-go, but online luxury resale company Re-See hosted a sale of about 200 pieces from Ms. Philo’s collections during Paris Fashion Week. Model Paloma Elsesser above was shopping the vintage Céline sale.
On Resee.com, Phoebe-era Céline is one of the top-three selling labels. Imagine that fact: Phoebe’s Céline follows Chanel and Hermès.
Phoebe understands us — the woman wearing her fashion — is a constant theme among her devoted. Lynette Nylander, the executive editorial director of Dazed, explained further. Down to the most finite detail “how wide her armholes are, the fact that she always paired things with trainers. This is someone who’s not living a curb-to-cab lifestyle. I’m on the subway, I’m sweating, but I still want to evoke some sense of fantasy. Phoebe was the master of doing that.”
Now it’s time to sound the trumpets! Yes, Philo has taught other designers well and younger people don’t really know who she is. Not to worry.
Backed by LVMH, Phoebe Philo will be available to see and buy in September 2023. That very fact is music to the ears of hoards of women who love her. The rest of Phoebe’s story will be driven by her reception in the luxury label-buying public. TBD, as the saying goes. One assumes this will go well, because for every 20-year-old, who doesn’t even know about Phoebe Philo, there’s a 35-year-old who is thrilled to have her back in business.
Sound the Trumpets!
Phoebe Returns In September 2023.
