Much has been said about Hedi Slimane’s love affair with youth culture. It’s an obsession that he has honed since his younger days at Dior and now at Celine – his Spring/Summer 2021 menswear show in July paid tribute to e-boys from the cyber-subculture.

On Monday night (Oct 26), the Stade Louis II in Monaco bore witness to Slimane’s paean to this demographic as he presented his latest Celine womenswear collection for Spring/Summer 2021.

Predictably, the 67-look collection saw Slimane staying in the “bourgeoise chic” lane that he is known for at Celine; he rehased heritage designs and archive-inspired pieces and continued his predilection for lean tailoring.

But there were also the athleisure fits, sweatsuit materials, flats, scrunchies, oversized cardigans, baseball caps and bucket hats, and gyms socks worn with sandals – symbols of easy wholesome dressing and perhaps merchandise that we buy more of these days.