CELINE has unveiled its Hiver 2026 campaign, a winter collection that trades spectacle for the quiet rhythm of a life already underway. Under creative director Michael Rider, the Paris house presents a wardrobe built on confidence, contradiction and personal style, photographed by Zoë Ghertner with a short film by Massimiliano Bomba.
CELINE Hiver 2026: confidence as the starting point
For Hiver 2026, Michael Rider places confidence at the beginning of the conversation. The campaign presents Rider’s third runway collection for the house, first shown at Paris’s Institut de France on 7 March 2026. Rather than defining style as a concept, Rider approaches it through instinct: beautiful clothes that meet personality, contradiction, imperfection and the quiet force of individual style.
“At its best, CELINE is a style: a mix of old and new that feels urgent and dreamy,” Rider has said of the collection. The campaign, covered in new fashion reporting on 14 November, translates that idea into images of real life: slender tailored coats, cropped trousers, tactile knitwear, enveloping scarves and characterful accessories worn as natural extensions of the wearers’ routines rather than choreographed runway looks.
The defining image of the CELINE winter campaign
The campaign’s defining image for the coming winter is a pair of heels dribbling a basketball, setting polish against play. That single gesture captures the collection’s spirit: French bourgeois polish intersecting with relaxed American sportswear, elegance that does not take itself too seriously.
The visual essay features an ensemble cast including Alaina Rae, Esther Kim, Frej Larsen and Kylee Dixon, captured across Parisian avenues and domestic interiors. Ghertner shifts between textured monochrome portraits and warm colour compositions, presenting an intuitive sartorial dialogue between structure and ease.
Paris street style in a long winter coat. The CELINE Hiver 2026 campaign brings the same polished, lived-in elegance to the streets of Paris.
What the collection contains
The omnipresence of black is balanced by animal prints, incandescent red and graphic squares, while violet, deep blue, pink and cream add emotional colour against the dark base. Structured blazers, tailored coats and sharp jackets anchor the collection, paired with cropped or kick-flared trousers, silk cushioned stoles, heavy charm necklaces and hats with an almost vintage feel.
Accessories stay close to the house’s established codes with a few updates, including a refreshed New Luggage “Smile” variation, a Triomphe bag in striking purple alligator, the 16 in a shrunken rectangular shape and the Triomphe Frame Petit in lizard. Selected pieces highlighted in the campaign include the A-Line Mac at $4,850, the Sock Bootie in Satin at $1,500 and the Small Flair Bag in Shiny Calfskin at $3,800.
FAKTA
- CELINE Hiver 2026 is creative director Michael Rider’s third runway collection for the house.
- The collection was first shown at the Institut de France in Paris on 7 March 2026.
- The campaign was photographed by Zoë Ghertner, with a film by Massimiliano Bomba.
- The collection has been available in stores and online since 27 August 2026.
- Its defining image shows a pair of heels dribbling a basketball, setting polish against play.
- Key pieces include the A-Line Mac ($4,850), the Sock Bootie in Satin ($1,500) and the Small Flair Bag ($3,800).
Menswear and the wider winter season
Rider’s vision extends to menswear, where the Fall/Winter 2026 collection makes a case for looking again at familiar clothes: denim enters the tailored wardrobe, a suit accommodates a little disorder, and a practical jacket becomes the most expressive piece in the room. Leather cords carry substantial metal charms, including a key and a sculpted hand.
By foregrounding practical utility, relaxed posture and unforced spontaneity, the campaign moves away from overt spectacle and gives Rider’s aesthetic space to breathe. It is a wardrobe in motion: clothes for a life already underway, polished one sharply chosen layer at a time.
