The official CELINE thread

[TheFoo]

'take it to a good tailor' is such a nothing thing.
you only know if they're not good AFTER they've f*ck*d your item up.

Exactly the same can be said of the store’s tailor, except that you have less transparency. Store tailors have f*cked up clothes of mine—including at SLP and Loro Piana. It can be a fight to get them to replace the ruined item.

Anyway, this is about shortening a jacket sleeve. It is a basic job. If the OP has a tailor he likes, there is no reason to change things up.

 

[SirGrotius]

I had a tailor shorten from the end of the sleeve once and was left with fewer buttons!!

 

[TheFoo]

I had a tailor shorten from the end of the sleeve once and was left with fewer buttons!!

Well, that is stupid.

However, if the jacket does not have working button holes, you should absolutely shorten from the sleeve end and NOT from the shoulder. Shortening at the shoulder is major surgery with much greater risk.

 

[SirGrotius]

The one thing I wonder about there, though, is wouldn't that adversely affect the silhouette? I suppose it could be said in both directions, but for some reason I like the touch of flare at the end of the sleeve, whereas I tend to like a tighter/higher armhole upper bicep region unless I'm working out too much for Hedi Slimane pieces!

 

[SirGrotius]

according to the most credible source in the world, Instagram, HS seems to be on the edge of departing Celine. Would make sense as five years is a long time and I could see his proposed replacement, Michael Rider of Polo, being a suitable replacement. I’ve always had this idea that Celine is the Polo Ralph Lauren of France.

I’d suspect that Hedi would take a sabbatical for a couple years and then reenter the game at some watershed or more likely subtle moment, where his aesthetic might be ready to reemerge in the game. I wouldn’t be surprised, assuming the rompre is not too acrimonious, of a return to Dior or a self-styled label.