After months of rumors, it's official: Phoebe Philo leaves Céline. The LVMH group has indeed announced this Friday, December 21, the departure of the artistic director in charge of the collections of the French house since 2008. A new upsetting for the small world of fashion, the British designer having developed over the last 9 years a singular stylistic grammar within a house that has become the epicenter, season after season, of new trends. Presenter of a minimal urban silhouette with contemporary lines, Phoebe Philo has, in fact, been illustrated by her innovative understanding of the women's wardrobe, her predisposition to tayloring coupled with an innate sense of the right cut, her unmatched flair for the it-bags of tomorrow.  

" Phoebe has written a key chapter in Celine's story. We are very grateful to him for contributing to the great growth of this house, "says Group CEO Bernard Arnault in the release. What about his successor? He should be appointed in the following months.  

As for Phoebe Philo, she is now the subject of the most daring speculations. While his departure is officially motivated for family reasons, others prefer to spread the rumor of an upcoming appointment at the head of Burberry, Christopher Bailey leaving his post in January. An assumption all the more likely that the mark with the Scottish print so distinctive is now managed by Marco Gobbetti .... former executive director of Céline. QED.