Céline Dion has never, ever been a minimalist. Her music is all big emotions and dramatic melismas. Her shows are Vegas–style spectacles complete with fireworks. Her hits aren’t just big, they’re worldwide record-breakers (you know you helped by buying that Titanic soundtrack back in ’97). And when it comes to fashion, this is a woman who loves a head-to-toe designer look, complete with hats, gloves, and major heels. Which is why it’s kind of amazing that her latest look, which she debuted on Vogue magazine’s Instagram, is so stripped-down. Literally.
Céline posed nude for Vogue in an Instagram posted yesterday. In the pic, Dion sits in a Louis XV-style chair in a Paris hotel room, demurely covering part of her face, and any body parts that might trip Instagram’s censors. Dion is currently in Paris for Couture Week, which kicked off on July 2, and the photo was taken while she changed outfits between shows — because Dion does not play, so yes, she serves a completely different look at each show she attends.
Couture Week is an important event for Dion, who has become a nascent fashion icon in the past year since she began working with stylist Law Roach — who brought you Céline’s much talked-about Vetements Titanic sweatshirtmoment. As Vogue’s caption reveals, the star almost exclusively wears custom-made couture during her legendary live performances. Read on and see if you can handle the fabulousness:
“[Dion] performs a minimum two hours a night, five or six nights a week [...] in handmade, hand-beaded delicacies designed solely to walk a catwalk or a carpet (and often with handlers). For Céline’s orders, the houses send teams to Nevada typically for three fittings, before the garments are ultimately finished in her local, private atelier. Armani Privé, Schiaparelli, Giambattista Valli, Versace… only a partial list. Everyone, basically.”
The caption also details how Dion has her personal atelier add Velcro panels to her custom-designed couture pieces to allow for proper breathing while she performs, and for quick outfit changes. She also has elasticized chiffon added to any dress slits so she can move and squat in them (we love her so much). So much for the supposed fragility of couture. As Dion tells Vogue: “We have to make haute couture industrial… The clothes follow me; I do not follow the clothes.”
So, there you have it. Céline Dion is the ultimate queen who can basically make couture into athletic wear — or she’s just as content in nothing at all. Tell your fave to get like Céline!Read more at:celebrity dresses | prom dresses manchester
