Overview

• Michael Rider presented his second Celine collection on Sunday in the Parc de Saint-Cloud, staging an open-air runway during Paris Fashion Week.
• The foulard served as the collection’s organizing device, with scarves engineered into dresses and tops, surfacing in trench linings, and even trimming handbags.
• Rider advanced a blended language that nods to Phoebe Philo’s minimalism, Hedi Slimane’s bourgeois tailoring, and his own preppy roots through mannish jackets, skinny jeans, tuxedo play, and silk polo and rugby shirts.
• New touches included baby-doll dresses in boucle or psychedelic florals and logo bicycle helmets, a detail Rider linked to Paris’s cycling culture, alongside scarf-like collars and low-key jewelry.
• Critics framed the outing as a confident continuation rather than a rupture, as the show unfolded during a season crowded with creative-director debuts at Dior, Loewe, Mugler, and Chanel.