Céline by Phoebe Philo Resort 2012 Floral Leather Skirt

A floral leather skirt from Celine's Resort 2012 collection, the season Phoebe Philo built around the idea of a prolonged vacation and used to loosen her sharp, sporty silhouette. It belongs to a collection where Philo expanded into print more freely than she had before, moving from graphic checks into blooming floral motifs rendered head to toe. Read now, the piece reads as a quiet record of that early Philo era at the house, when softness and structure were learning to share the same wardrobe.