This past weekend, Hedi Slimane posted a note on his personal Instagram account that said, in the most careful and passive-aggressive French, that the visual language he created during his tenure as creative director of Celine was his and his alone. Slimane, who left Celine nearly a year ago and has since been replaced by Michael Rider, added that he hoped the LVMH-owned house would “brilliantly reinvent its advertising campaigns as well as its corporate image” so that it could “promote a new chapter … free from any borrowing or any insistent reference to my photographic style, including my advertising campaigns and films for Celine.”