Just CÉLINE

A few months ago I was talking here about the spring-summer 2013 campaigns that I love the most just after they were revealed (Prada, Balenciaga and Céline). What I didn't know then was that Céline will have even more perfect ads for the same campaign of the most amazing model - Daria Werbowy photographed by Juergen Teller, and that I will fall in love with them the moment I see it. 

There is no doubt that Phoebe Philo, the genius Céline designer, changed throughout the past few years the way we see fashion. I'm saying there is no doubt about it because bigger fashion journalists and personas wrote and talked about it so much before, and what's left for me to do is simply agree. 

Philo made us understand and know a new sense of beauty and above all - a perfect minimalist esthetic. The last photos of the beautiful campaign, I think, are the highest interpretation of this perfect esthetic. Most of us can only dream about a Céline bag, shoes or shirt, but the wonderful thing about it is that we all can embrace this timeless and again -perfect- state of mind, minimalism and beauty. 

Calm = Stunning

All the big fashion designers are starting to publish their new ad campaign for the Spring-Summer 2013 collection. Yes, I know it is freezing outside - I started wearing two coats at the same time, but this is just the way it is in fashion. Usually I find in each season few campaigns I really like, but this season I totally fell in love with three of them: CELINE, PRADA, BALENCIAGA. 

I think the reason for my immediate crush, you know what, it's not a crush because crushes are coming and going and I feel like I will love these ads forever :) (ok..maybe it was just a little bit too dramatic)... So I was saying, the reason I love them so much is because there is something so calm, almost sporty (without being sporty at all) about all three of them, each in a completely different way, that makes the attitude of the picture and clothes just so beautiful. 

In Prada it's the face of the amazing models they picked (and the best one is Raquel Zimmermann - in the right first picture above) with the composition and the way the clothes are just resting on the body. In Celine it's the way they shoot it and the fact they decided (again) to show us the amazing so natural beauty of model Daria Werbowy, along with the clothes ohh these so simple but yet so sophisticated and stunning clothes. And in Balenciaga they just left the wavy movement of the clothes to talk, while  emphasizing it with its opposite: rough compositions and black and white pictures.