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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Ellie Violet Bramley

Fashion industry and fans prepare for Phoebe Philo own-brand launch

Phoebe Philo is surrounded by people clapping and taking photos
Phoebe Philo (C) acknowledges the audience after her 2017 spring/summer ready-to-wear collection fashion show for Céline in Paris in 2016. Photograph: Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty Images

Taylor Swift has her Swifties, Justin Bieber his Beliebers and Phoebe Philo has her Philophiles – it says everything about the rapture surrounding the Paris-born designer that her fandom comes with its own moniker. So it is, two years after announcing a comeback, that Philo has confirmed the first collection from her eponymous label will launch on 30 October.

A Central Saint Martins graduate, Philo has been missing from the landscape ever since she left her role at the Parisian brand Celine (when it was Céline) in 2018.

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