Star Struck Style

Hedi Slimane for Celine (source: Vogue)

Hedi Slimane showed his menswear collection for Celine yesterday.

I’ve been kind to the designer recently. Once I figured him out astrologically, I began to appreciate what he does —  hence, the nice things I had to say about him in “Star Struck Style.” Nevertheless, I don’t get that excited about the clothes that he creates because they are terribly expensive and rarely distinctive enough to make me want to pay for them. Take the velour track jacket in the photo above. I could get a Todd Snyder for Champion jacket that was made in Canada for a fraction of the price and I would achieve the same look without appearing as if I only cared about the label I was wearing.

For that reason, I really can’t say that yesterday’s Celine show was a success. Slimane will once again be praised as…