Celebrities: Celine Dion Goes Nude For Vogue

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Celine Dion’s done a lot of amazing things over the course of her storied career, but nudity isn’t one we usually associate with her. However, that may soon change if Vogue’s Instagram is anything to go by.

Right on the Fourth of July, Vogue’s Instagram page showed the 49-year-old on a chair wearing nothing and with her arms folded and legs crossed. While Dion did pose topless for V Magazine in 2012, this is the first time a naked photo of her has been released.

See the photo below:

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). 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. And privately as well. Years ago, Celine bought a classic little black dress from the Christian Dior atelier when the house was overseen by John Galliano. It is simple, falling to mid calf, and narrow as can be with just a hint of stretch. It requires a minimum of jewelry, a statement bracelet or perhaps one of the major diamond rings she designed with her late husband Rene Angelil: two pear cuts set in a wide pave band, or two hearts of diamond and emerald abstractly interlocking, on a cushion of yet more diamonds. This LBD forces you to walk one foot in front of the other. 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. #CelineTakesCouture Photo by @sophfei.

Une publication partagée par Vogue (@voguemagazine) le 3 Juil. 2017 à 22h25 PDT

The Instagram post also came with a lengthy caption, talking about how Dion has been exclusively wearing couture for her performances in Las Vegas and Europe, with Armani Prive, Schiaparelli, Giambattista Valli, and Versace name-dropped. The caption also reveals how these couture creations are remade to the specifications required by Dion’s performance — “Velcro panels are added to allow for her ribcage to expand or for a quick outfit change”.

But the most poignant part of the caption is near the end, when it talks about a little black dress Dion bought from the Christian Dior atelier. Described as “simple, falling to mid calf, and narrow as can be with just a hint of stretch”, the dress is a favorite of Dion’s, and played a part in her personal life as well.

To quote the heartbreaking caption: “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.”

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