The Celine fashion show at Monaco’s Louis II Stadium

Monaco's Louis II Stadium was the scene of Celine's latest SS 21 fashion show, which chose the Monegasque venue to parade its models - including Kaia Gerber - instead of the traditional location of the next Paris Fashion Week. The models paraded along the athletics track that surrounds the playing field, while all around, as you are used to seeing, the stands remained empty. The lookbook presented the garments for the next Spring-Summer collection again in a sports facility after in July, for the men's collection, Hedi Slimane had chosen the French racetrack in Le Castellet as its location. 

As for the collection itself, unfortunately, it was quite lethargic. Of the thirty-four looks that followed each other on the athletics track, no one had edge or any element remotely original: everything had already been seen or already appeared, for one way or another, on a catalogue of Zara. Fantasy was the missing element: fashion should be a proposal or a dream, not the anonymous photography of a reality already unentucious in itself. Slimane's main defense, so far, has been to be able to create easily wearable luxury products – classic jackets, leather goods and jeans, with a somewhat retro soul and impeccable details. But the line between discreet chic and anonymity (not to say cheapness) is very thin and the model in tracksuits, white sneakers and leather mini-nail just crossed her to enter her favorite Starbucks. 

This Celine show at Louis II adds another chapter to the book between football and fashion, which had recently included miu Miu's SS21 lookbook, inspired by the sports line. But in the past there have been great intertwining between the two sectors - now very dialoguing - starting from the history of the Bikkembergs brand up to the FW20 collection of Balenciaga or the sensational case of Dolce and Gabbana in Naples, with Sicilian designers forced to compensate Napoli calcio for having included among the garments of the parade in San Gregorio Armeno a reworking of a Maradona jersey.