Michael Rider’s Celine Spring 2026 Jewelry was the unequivocal standout of the designer’s new debut.
Jewelry is back at Celine. It’s true. After season upon season of Hedi Slimane, a new way of lightness comes courtesy of Celine’s new creative director Michael Rider, who has reinstated the cultural history of jewelry at Celine. It’s no surprise: former well-loved Celine creative director Phoebe Philo had a knack for churning out one covetable jewel after the other. Think: fox-shaped single earrings dripping with a single pearl, or the chunky initial pendant that graced a million necks and spawned an explosive trend that still exists, years later. Beyond that, the vintage jewelry from Celine has always been incredibly relevant and collectible.
Michael Rider’s Celine Spring 2026 jewelry speaks to a different sentiment. It’s about modern heirlooms through a preppy lens, with a witty sense of humor to boot. Take, for instance, the charm bracelet and charm necklace. Rider and his accessories team blew them up to major proportions, stacking the heavy gold tone metal links with a proverbial embarrassment of riches, in the best way possible. Victorian style orbs, supersized cobalt blue horns, ancient world lockets. Chunky little trumpets! Huge surrealist hands! And charms were jumbled too, all together hanging off a belt.
Celine’s focus on the charm necklace and charm bracelet as a fixture for spring 2026 isn’t just an aesthetic choice. It’s smart: it takes into account our current obsession with collecting, hunting and gathering–fueling the collective consciousness to stand out and stack up. Loved by everyone from Elizabeth Taylor in the 1960s to prepster teens in the early 2000s, the charm bracelet has been Juicy Couture-ified and back again. Charm bracelets used to represent an entire culture and rare method of slow fashion (jewelry) that barely exists today. Spot an old gold one on the secondhand market and the charms are often personally engraved. They represent hobbies, life milestones and travels. In today’s world, a real charm bracelet actually feels foreign because of society’s endless need to collect instantly as a cultural conversation starter (see the Labubu for reference.) Elsewhere, the arms of one leather jacket in the collection were also covered in a sea of keys and charms. It looked like how the bridges in Paris used to look before they removed the love locks (“cadenas d’amour”), but it also spoke brilliantly to the aforementioned collecting obsession.
Other jewelry standouts from Celine Spring 2026 were the layered rings. Models wore multiple gold and silver toned rings on every single finger. The chaotically good maximalist mix of different colors, shapes and textures put forward the vibe of a vintage collectress. Part personal collector, part passed down heirlooms. One model wore mega-sized hoops of spiky embossed leaf motifs with the perfect look of a vintage patina. Another donned chunky little gold picnic basket-shaped earrings. The pièce de résistance was a hulking, massive, sculptural gold brooch shaped like wheat sheaves. Leather and enameled metal logo bracelet cuffs stacked together in primary hues resembled those fleeting paper wristbands left on from last night’s concert. Meek and quiet this is not. Celine spring 2026 jewelry is firmly for the bold.
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