C'mon Get Happy!

Fashion’s new mood is… sunshine and rainbows and joy and laughter – so leave your pout at home and start smiling.

- Laura Antonia Jordan

THE NUMBER ONE RULE OF COOL – a concept that is otherwise almost impossible to define – is never, ever look like you’re enjoying yourself too much. Sulk, smoke, perfect a faint whiff of disdain and boredom – just don’t give the impression that you’re, you know, having fun. That was, until now.

ALL HAIL QUEEN CELINE

This year saw the assent of the unlikeliest of fashion icons: Céline Dion. The power-ballad crooner proved her chops as a fashion power-mover too, stepping out in everything from Saint Laurent’s leather sweetheart-necked top to Dior haute couture, to the Vetements Titanic hoodie (a genius meta move there). But it wasn’t just what she was wearing, it was how she was wearing it – with an unbridled enthusiasm and sheer, utter joy. She was having capital F fun in capital F fashion – and suddenly the rest of us just looked a bit, serious.

‘She is such a fashion girl if I’ve ever met one. She loves it!’ her stylist Law Roach explains. He’s witnessed the Céline-effect first-hand. ‘What I’ve been hearing from people is that watching Céline over the summer made them happy because she seems so happy. The world is such a scary place, to have even a moment of something to take your mind away from that and make you smile and chuckle a bit is powerful. I think we do need that,’ he says, adding that Céline, just like another of his clients, Zendaya, has ‘no fear, no fear at all. They do it for themselves, they really don’t give a fuck what people have to say’.