Michael Rider has staked his claim at Celine. Yesterday, the American designer, late of Polo Ralph Lauren, presented a 72-look debut of androgynous-ish women’s and men’s clothes that leaned into both American prep and French haute bourgeois style, lifting bits from former Celine designers Phoebe Philo (for whom he worked at the LVMH-owned house) and Hedi Slimane, put together with an effortless élan. “I hope people want things that last,” Rider told Sarah Mower post-show. “I don’t think things that last have to feel not exciting. And I think when those two things meet, that’s kind of the place I love things, that you keep and that you can be yourself in. And that are quality.”
In Paris today, the fall 2026 couture shows are already underway. Be sure to give Iris Van Herpen’s collection a click. The boundary-breaking Dutch designer is putting a “living” dress on the runway made from half a bathtub full of Pyrocystis lunula—that’s algae to you and me. Van Herpen gave Amy Verner a preview. |
