Celine Ushers In A New Era, And It’s Pristinely Preppy

It’s been seven years since Michael Rider was last at Celine, where he worked for a decade as design director under Phoebe Philo’s famed tenure, and quite a few things have changed. While Hedi Slimane stepped in, dropped the acute accent from the name, and shifted away from Philo’s feminine ease, Rider sharpened his preppy edge as creative director of Ralph Lauren. Now, on the runway, it’s as if the varying influences from his career have formed a scrapbook to compose his…