The New Luggage — Michael Rider's first official Celine bag — is the Luggage bag with a curved zipper that transforms the front of the bag into a smile. The Smile Variation, as Celine calls it, launched globally on September 26, 2025, in select stores and on celine.com. Rider also introduced an east-west shape — wider, more relaxed — and expanded the color palette to include Ultra-Red, Citrus, and Ultra-Blue alongside the classic black. Material options span shiny lambskin, suede calfskin, and Porosus crocodile. The Flat Cabas New Luggage, a flat companion format, retails from $2,100. A$AP Rocky, Julia Roberts, and Meryl Streep were among the first spotted carrying the new versions. The campaign was shot by Zoë Ghertner in full color, drenched in sunlight — a deliberate departure from the moody black-and-white photography that characterized the Slimane era's image language. The smile was not only on the bag.

The Celine Phantom — the Luggage's wider, more dramatic sibling introduced by Philo in 2011 — returned on Michael Rider's debut runway in XL format, given an east-west touch and the same curved zipper smile as the New Luggage. Its return was the most immediately reactive moment of the Spring 2026 show for the bag community: searches on Vestiaire Collective surged 700% in the days following the runway. The Phantom had been discontinued under Slimane; its reappearance signaled Rider's intent to bridge all eras of the house — to honor what Philo had built without becoming a curator of her archive. The Phantom is the bag that proves the principle: that great leather goods silhouettes do not become obsolete, they become investments, and investments that wait. Ninety percent of old Celine owners, one resale analyst observed, "are not necessarily looking to sell their Celine." They were waiting for the right moment to carry them again.

The Triomphe bag — introduced by Hedi Slimane in 2018 as part of his reimagination of the Celine identity — takes its hardware from a vintage Celine logo clasp of the 1970s, enlarged and made prominent on a clean square flap bag. The crossbody format, its gold Triomphe clasp centered on the front, became one of the decade's most immediately legible accessories — carried by Kaia Gerber, Angelina Jolie, and Doja Cat across the full spectrum of celebrity aesthetic. The Triomphe canvas — the interlocking Triomphe logo repeated across a coated canvas ground — became the Slimane era's equivalent of the Philo era's logotype embossed in leather: a way of announcing the house without announcing a specific product. Under Rider, the Triomphe clasp and canvas remain in the collection, though deployed more quietly — present but no longer dominant, the heritage of one era absorbed into the next without erasure.

Rider's Spring 2026 debut introduced several new and revived formats alongside the New Luggage. The Trio Flap — a return of Philo's 2011 Trio bag, now unified under a single folded flap with the Triomphe emblem rather than modular separable pouches — in lambskin with jersey lining, the CELINE Paris hotstamp alongside the Triomphe, uniting both house eras in a single object. The Soft Triomphe Besace — a relaxed, accordion-structured crossbody in supple shiny lambskin with a downsized Triomphe clasp that "whispers rather than screams Celine" — in black, Soft Tan, and Syrah at $3,450. The Halfmoon Soft Triomphe in a crescent format that can be tucked under the arm as an oversized clutch. Each piece balances Rider's described ambition: "clothing that lives on, that becomes a part of the wearer's life, that may capture a moment in time but also speaks to years and years of gestures and occasions and change."

The Phoebe Philo-era Celine bags occupy a specific position in the luxury resale market: objects so coveted that their owners are reluctant to release them, and so abundant in supply (from their years of mass production during the 2010s) that prices have not spiked in the way of rarer archive pieces. "Ninety percent of old Celine owners are not necessarily looking to sell their Celine," the CEO of Rebag has said. "Most Celine sells in the first thirty days on The Real Real." The Luggage in good condition ranges from $1,500 to $3,500. The Classic Box from $1,200 to $2,000. The Phantom in rarer colorways or exotic materials commands a premium. The Trapeze, discontinued in 2017, remains among the most affordable and most functional Philo-era pieces for new collectors. Each of these bags is described, consistently, by those who carry them as possessing the same quality: they improve with age, they match everything, and they feel like nothing that replaced them.

The Celine accessories ecosystem extends well beyond handbags — the Triomphe sunglasses are a perennial it-buy, among the most consistently repurchased luxury eyewear in the market, their oversized square frames and gold Triomphe hardware among the most photographed at any fashion week worldwide. Small leather goods — card holders, coin purses, zip pouches in Triomphe canvas — carry the house codes in the most accessible format. Under Rider, the jewelry has been emphasized: gold chains worn in abundance, layers of colorful necklaces and rings, the gold charms that appeared throughout the Spring 2026 runway winking at a 1992 Celine campaign where models wore identically excessive gold jewelry with tweed sets. The accessories are not afterthoughts. They are the entry point to the house — the Celine Triomphe sunglasses on someone's face before they can afford the Luggage; the card holder that precedes the bag; the moment of recognition that begins a longer relationship.