Philo

A sale in Paris brought out the “Old Celine” followers, even as their leader, Phoebe Philo, sat out another fashion week.

But she said she “felt great” about the broader idea of what she was buying into. “The reason Phoebe’s Céline endures is it’s made for women with a woman’s point of view,” Ms. Phoebe was the master of doing that.” It’s like a little wink, a little IYKYK look,” she said, using an abbreviation for “if you know, you know.” “And it’s lived in my head ever since.” (Also, because it was “too chic to walk away from,” she bought a white mink clutch. “I was naughty,” she texted.) “I was freelance and broke when it originally came out,” Ms. “I always really equated them with being able to adapt to the working woman who’s on the go. Aljawhara Al Mahdi, who runs Boutique N in Kuwait with her mother, added three garments (a floral blazer, beige skirt and leather dress) to her stable of about 30 Old Céline pieces. Philo “really thought about the woman first and the design second. For four days during Paris Fashion Week, in a showroom near the Arc de Triomphe, the online luxury resale company Re-See hosted a sale of about 200 pieces from Ms. That she’ll bring her vision of smart, grown-up, not overly feminine femininity to scatter like bread crumbs on a city sidewalk for the famished pigeons of fashion?