3rd. World Fashion Geek: Joan Didion: Céline's new face

Joan Didion: Face of Céline ss2015
Photo: Juergen Teller

Céline recruited a LADY, a REAL LADY for its spring-summer 2015 campaign.

She is Joan Didion, a well-known American journalist and writer.

Ms. Joan Didion

Her writing is mainly related to the world's political events, and lately she's written a sort of fictional stories linked somehow to her late years, and the personal experiences she's had.

Joan Didion, nowadays

Ms. Joan Didion, early years

For those who are interested in Ms. Didion's bibliography, you may start reading "We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live", which is a compilation of lots of her previous work, published in 2006. It can give you an idea of everything she wrote about in the 70's and 80's.

"We tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live" cover
Everyman's Library - 2006

In a more personal spectrum you can read "The Year of Magical Thinking", which was written during a hard stage in her life, absolutely reflected in the book. It was published in 2005.

"The Year of Magical Thinking"
Knopf Publishing - 2005

It is actually not Ms. Didion's first fashion ad, she already participated along with her daughter Quintana Roo in a Gap campaign in 1989, photographed by Annie Leibowitz

Ms. Joan Didion and her daughter Quintana Roo, in a Gap ad from 1989
Photo: Annie Leibowitz

Now, talking about being the face of Céline: Ms. Phoebe Philo always makes good decisions related to Céline's campaigns.

We've seen such interesting faces in modeling (Daria Werbowy, Binx, Julia Nobis, Natalie Wlestling, Stella Tennant to name a few) that let us know she's interested in creative, very conceptual and intellectual advertising for the company's campaigns. Juergen Teller taking the campaigns' pictures in most of cases :)