There’s a quiet heat to the CELINE Été 2026 campaign. Less sun-drenched spectacle, more the divine afterimage of summer lingering on skin. Shot by Zoë Ghertner, the images feel suspended in time, caught somewhere between movement and stillness, presence and memory.
Ghertner’s lens doesn’t chase glamour but rather studies it. Light drapes softly across bodies and fabric, allowing shape and texture to emerge without insistence. It’s an approach that feels almost archaeological, revealing what Michael Rider is beginning to carve out at CELINE; a language of restraint, space, and subtle tension.
The accompanying film directed by Massimiliano Bomba mirrors this sensibility where motion is suggested rather than declared and fabric shifts, figures drift, the camera lingers. Nothing rushes allowing everything to breathe. Here, the clothes exist as much in the negative space as on the body itself. Every cut and every fold feels deliberate but unforced.
The campaign operates in mood and nuance that makes us long for spring weather and a few CELINE pieces to lift the spirits.
Discover film and the campaign imagery below.
