Celine was established by Céline Vipiana and her husband Richard in 1945, when the Second World War had just drawn to a close. Initially, it was a children’s shoe boutique that offered ‘haute couture’ shoes for kids. Shortly after, the brand had spread across Paris and extended to include a women’s clothing line. Céline’s main idea was to create comfortable everyday clothes, elegant and stylish, yet without any irrelevant polish. To make it come true, she used at first such fabrics like leather, denim and wool. In the 1960s, the designer created her first line of leather goods and accessories, before a natural progression to design the ‘sportswear’ collection in 1968. Shortly afterwards, the brand expanded its lines to fragrances and jewelry.
