Designer Talk – Phoebe Philo of Céline
Phoebe Philo is British. She was born in Paris while her parents were working there. Graduated in 1996, a year after Stella McCartney, from the famous Central Saint Martins of college of Art and Design in London.
In 1997, She started working for Chloé as assistant designer to Stella McCartney, who was the creative director at the time.
In 2001, she succeeded McCartney’s postion as Creative Director. After The Gucci Group offered McCartney to launch her very own label Stella McCartney. Philo then left her prestige position at Chloe after 6 years, living in Paris, to move back to London to be with her family. During her break, she had her second child.
