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source: www.wwd.comCongratulations to Phoebe Philo. She is expecting her third child come April.
The fashion world can be catty, but no one ever has a bad word to say about Phoebe Philo.
As the creative director of Céline, Philo launched the brand into one of the most coveted labels around. From the ubiquitous leather Céline totes to the minimalist, earth tone clothes, the most fashionable industry insiders (and Kanye West) are fans.
Which is why editors, bloggers and fashion lovers are about to get hit with some disappointing news: there will be no Celine runway show this season.
Women’s Wear Daily reports that Phoebe Philo is pregnant with her third child and thus is planning on scaling back her upcoming presentation.
There will be a little extra breathing room during Paris Fashion Week in March: Céline, one of the hottest tickets, is skipping the runway this season. “The objective is to simplify,” Céline CEO Marco Gobbetti told WWD (which may as well be Céline’s tagline).
While Céline will keep its allotted March 4 time slot in the Paris Fashion Week schedule, the Fall 2012 goods will likely be shown to editors and buyers in the house’s showrooms, a more informal setting.
Which means editors will still get their fix, but those of us hanging back stateside probably won’t — until the looks hit the fashion mags come September, at least
wwdPHOEBE IN TOWN: “I actually cried,” Phoebe Philo conceded Tuesday night at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. The designer was cohosting, along with Marco Gobetti, a cocktail party to toast Isa Genzken, whose retrospective — underwritten by Céline — was opening at the museum.
Upon seeing the exhibition, Philo had gotten choked up. “She’s just brilliant,” Philo continued of the artist, whose comprehensive, 150-piece exhibition showcases her body of work spanning a 40-year oeuvre. Guests including Sofia Coppola, Kim Gordon and Yigal Azrouël floated through the galleries, filled with a dizzying array of Genzken-created stimuli: A passel of mannequins stood tall in the first room in various states of dress; concrete blocks with faux antennas stalking out of them were perched on a table in the next; a mobile of dented pots and pans dangled in another, and a tiny, battery-powered hula dancer wiggled in the middle of the floor a few feet away. The exhibition will be on view until March 10, then hitting the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Dallas Museum of Art.
Philo told guests by the bar of daughter Maya’s latest concern. The nine-year-old had asked for a private moment when on the phone with Philo earlier that day. “I said, ‘Of course darling. What’s wrong?’” Philo said. “She said, ‘I want to change my name to Violet.’” The designer suggested Maya test-drive the switch for the weekend. “I wanted to change my name to Michelle when I was young,” Philo said. “It’s such an uncool name, it’s almost cool.”