PFW: Céline SS14

Phoebe Philo updated her urban modernist look for Céline this season, showing a collection of bold graphics and prints on linear silhouettes.

Inspired by graffiti art and the work of Brassaï, a modernist Ragga-chic women emerged from the first exit. Elongated tunics worn over plisse skirts with sharp asymmetric hemlines where a key silhouette.

Double-faced jacquards, ribbed knits, pleats, graffiti-jacquared sleeves and accessories where some of the key fabrics and details on show. Colours included bold brushstrokes of black on white, but also yellow and red, ultramarine, caramel, banana and pistachio, as seen on the some of the last exits.

Like the mood at Prada, the show was about empowering women, though Philo's approach was less literal.

The fashion tribes are an important trend for the 2014 spring collections, and Philo took inspiration from the 80s but updated with a lean and elongated silhouette over the juxtaposed hemlines. The soundtrack of Soul II Soul's Back to Life mashed with George Michael's Freedom summed it all up.

Images: Céline SS14