By The Fashion Editorial Team
From beneath the blazing summer sun, CELINE presents its Été 2026 Campaign, photographed by Zoe Ghertner and featuring the Spring Summer 2026 collection by Michael Rider. Presented alongside the campaign, Takashi Homma’s New Waves series becomes a natural companion to the enduring spirit of summer. Charged with unrestrained energy, the waves carry a wild sense of motion, openness, and freedom.
Takashi Homma’s New Waves, carrying the season’s unrestrained sense of motion and freedom. Courtesy of the artist.
Along the sandy terrain, womenswear leans into emblematic beach whites, knitted dresses, swim, and accessories, all conveying a familiar sense of leisurely unwind. At the same time, taking a forward-thinking approach to staid prep rituals, the campaign introduces a playful respite from seaside expectations. In one moment, the uniformity of white Long Docks wool trousers and a naval jacket with matching buttons gives way to expressive red Jelly Bay sandals.
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Menswear follows suit with similarly wry expressions. A double-breasted suit affixed with tuxedo buttons is worn directly on the beach, framed by wetted hair and French cuffs intentionally left unfastened. Long a beachwear archetype, classic cut denim comes through like a West Coast gust, paired with leather toe loop sandals. Elsewhere, seafaring knitwear and polo tops are shrunk to exacting CELINE standards as polos, tanks, and tees round out the collection, at times paired with visor-like sunglasses that push back against the grain of tradition.
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Cool, calm, and collected, this is a self‑assured collection that need not ask permission to decry expectation and soak in summer days of your own.