Celine Luggage Phantom entered the record around 2012: the luggage's towering open cousin: same face, wings flared wide, no zip, square body, in drummed and smooth calfskin, suede and canvas editions, with feet and pull only hardware and the open top with wing snaps.
The oversized era's last great silhouette at the house, built on the Luggage's face at greater volume.
The introduction is marked circa because the documentation is: fashion houses publish far less history than they manufacture, and the file records the range the evidence supports rather than inventing precision.
The full collector's file for this model, era details, and the authentication walk-through are on the writing schedule; the record above is permanent.
Celine hands the dater a gift no other maison offers: in September 2018 the house removed the accent from its logo, citing its own 1960s collections, so a bag marked CÉLINE belongs to the Philo era and earlier, and a bag marked CELINE is September 2018 or later, full stop. An accented logo on a Triomphe, an Ava or a 16, models born after the change, is a contradiction no serial stamp can rescue. The interior stamps themselves do not read as a calendar, so date by era instead: the logo form, the model's documented birthday, and the size roster of its year, remembering that sizes have birthdays too, like the phone-dimensioned Teen Box of 2018. For any serious purchase, route through a platform authentication program: eBay physically inspects qualifying handbags in transit.
Model histories and date-code systems compiled from documented maison history, resale-industry authentication references, and period documentation, cross-checked across independent sources.