Though Céline was founded in Paris way back in 1945, when Céline and Richard Vipiana opened a custom shoe shop for children in Paris, its modern incarnation dates to 1969, when the Vipianas began selling ready-to-wear. “It was never a flighty little minx of a brand,” Vicki Woods wrote in Vogue in 2009. “Over its 64-year history . . . it’s always been very polished, very French, equestrienne-chic.”