Celine Dion always looks great, but now the Canadian singer is looking great in a whole new way. In a series of Instagram posts shared this week for Vogue Magazine, Dion’s love of fashion and haute couture is examined and detailed, with the pop star posing in a number of stunning outfits. But the picture that has people talking the most features the singer wearing nothing at all.
Publicly posing nude for the first time in her three-plus decade career, Dion strips down and takes a seat in-between fittings. The 49-year-old looks sexy and confident in the behind-the-scenes image, which was snapped in a Paris dressing room during Couture Week.
Dion’s attendance at the Couture Week may surprise fans who know the singer best by her stunning vocals, but for anyone who has attended one of the French Canadian artists’ Vegas residency shows in the past five years, they know the singer performs in numerous haute couture pieces throughout the set.
According to Vogue, “…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).”
The mag goes on to explain that Dion receives looks from “Armani Prive, Schiaparelli, Giambattista Valli, Versace…only a partial list” and has three fittings in Nevada before making her final choices. The garments are then outfitted with velcro and micro straps to allow for Dion to breathe while performing and make quick outfit changes between songs. High heels, ‘never platforms,’ are ordered one size smaller than Dion’s actual shoe size and fitted 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.'” Yas Kween Celine.
While Dion’s naked photo is causing a stir online, in an ironic twist, it’s the picture of the singer sans clothes that has drawn attention to the fact that Celine has been heavily invested in the fashion industry for years.
Speaking with Vogue Magazine, Dion asks “What is making the people who are interested in fashion now interested in me when I have always been interested in fashion?” According to Vogue, Dion does her own make up and is involved with her stylist every step of the way, keeping files on looks she finds in magazines and sitting front row at fashion shows.
Dion keeps up to date on the comings and goings of the fashion world, expressing her frustration to Vogue over the seemingly endless revolving door of designers at fashion houses. “She is concerned that “the dream” of elegance is disappearing…”
Naked or clothed, Celine Dion makes the decision and looks great either way.