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Celine Dion has bared all for a revealing new photo shared on the Instagram page for Vogue magazine, giving fans a rare glimpse at the star in a moment of calm in between shows at Paris Fashion Week.
Perched on a chair with her knees drawn up and a discarded high-heeled boot lying on the floor next to her, the powerhouse pop singer is shown waiting patiently to get into her next look for the day.
In the caption, Vogue reveals the singer’s long history with haute couture and how she and her team take ensembles from the runway and get them stage-ready for her tour wardrobe.
“Here’s a little naked fact to ponder while Celine Dion changes looks between shows: for the past five years she has worn haute couture near exclusively for her own performances (in Las Vegas and on her current “mini-tour” of Europe),” the caption from Vogue reads.
“She performs a minimum two hours a night, five or six nights a week, dancing and curtseying and generally gesticulating sans abandon, in handmade, hand-beaded delicacies designed solely to walk a catwalk or a carpet (and often with handlers). For Celine’s orders, the houses send teams to Nevada for typically three fittings, before the garments are ultimately finished in her local, private atelier. Armani Prive, Schiaparelli, Giambattista Valli, Versace…only a partial list. Everyone, basically.
“In Vegas, Velcro panels are added to allow for her ribcage to expand or for a quick outfit change. Micro straps of elasticized chiffon prevent a slit from becoming a sloppy situation mid-squat. Shoes—always heels, never platforms—are ordered one size smaller (she is normally a 38) and refitted with metal shanks. Says Celine, “We have to make haute couture industrial.” And, more enigmatically: “The clothes follow me; I do not follow the clothes.” Which is to say: the haute couture, with all its fragility and handcraft, has to perform professionally for Ms. Dion.”
Vogue’s Instagram post also offered insight into the dress Celine chose to wear for the funeral of her beloved husband Rene Angelil in January last year, a classic black dress from the Christian Dior atelier.
“This is a dress Celine knows well and clearly loves, the simplest evocation of the private luxury of couture and the total antithesis of the red carpet hoopla that attends the union of fashion and celebrity. It is also the dress she wore to Rene’s funeral.” the style bible’s caption continued.
In a previous interview, the 49-year-old songstress spoke out about wanting to pay tribute to Rene with a special tattoo.
“Since my husband passed away, they can make the tattoo as his heartbeat. So, I might have his heartbeat on my body for the rest of my life,” she told Vogue.
