When Phoebe Philo announced her return to the fashion world earlier this year, it generated an electric level of online chatter, not just in women’s-wear circles but also in the pages of GQ.
During her tenure at Celine, Philo gained some important male fans. After name-checking Philo in the opening salvo of his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, a bare-chested Kanye West wore a Celine blouse while performing at Coachella in 2011. Travis Scott was seen wearing the same silk blouse years later. And when Frank Ocean attended Paris Fashion Week in 2019, he was photographed carrying his dark-green leather Philo-era Céline bag while wearing an orange Mammut down jacket and an Arc’teryx beanie (this photo would later become a fixture on “gorpcore”—functional outdoor clothing—moodboards everywhere).
