How you feel about fashion’s latest mining of the Noughties era might depend on how triggered you are by the words Crazy Larrys (RIP). Yes, here we are, back on the Kings Road, sloping in a loafer and baggy jean, rugby shirt collar popped, fiddling with Daddy’s signet ring.
In recently released imagery for Celine’s spring summer 23 collection, Hedi Slimane’s models traipsed through the reading room of the Bibliothèque Nationale, in Paris. They were in boot cut blue jeans and ugg-esque boots, checked boxer short-shorts, spangly pink jackets and string vest tops which had the (personal) unnerving familiarity of Bristol University library circa 2001.
