Celford Unveils a Refined New Collaboration With Paddington™
STUDIOCANAL KIDS & FAMILY Ltd. is delighted to announce a charming new collaboration between Paddington™ and Japanese fashion brand CELFORD. This partnership brings together CELFORD’s refined, contemporary aesthetic with Paddington’s warmth and timeless British charm, resulting in a collection that feels both elegant and full of character.
Inspired by Paddington’s enduring story of kindness, curiosity, and adventure, the collection expresses these themes through CELFORD’s sophisticated designs. Each piece captures the heart of Paddington’s world, from his gentle optimism to his unmistakable style – all reinterpreted through CELFORD’s lens of modern femininity and grace.
This collaboration marks a beautiful meeting of British heritage and Japanese design, celebrating the universal appeal of Paddington™ while highlighting CELFORD’s signature attention to detail and craftsmanship. The deal was brokered by Copyrights Asia, STUDIOCANAL KIDS & FAMILY’s long-standing agent for Japan.
The Paddington™ × CELFORD collection is available in CELFORD stores and online at https://celford.com/Page/style/251104/?plan=CE251104paddington.
About Paddington
For almost 70 years, British-born writer Michael Bond has delighted readers all over the world with his stories about Paddington, the bear from Peru, famous for his love of marmalade. The kindness and humour in the stories appeal to children and adults alike, ensuring Paddington’s enduring popularity from one generation to the next.
Since then, Paddington’s adventures have been adapted several times for television and at the end of 2014 Paddington made his debut onto the big screen, a further film Paddington 2 followed in 2017. The third instalment Paddington in Peru was released in the UK on 8th November 2024 and internationally throughout 2025 grossing over $220 million at the box ofice. The movies are produced by STUDIOCANAL, Europe’s leader in production, distribution and international sales of feature films and series, part of CANAL+ Group, major player in the creation and distribution of content worldwide. In 2020, a brand-new Paddington TV series designed for a pre-school audience, The Adventures of Paddington launched on Nickelodeon, winning two Daytime Emmys.
About STUDIOCANAL (a CANAL+ Company)
STUDIOCANAL, CANAL+’s in-house studio, is Europe’s leading film and television studio, with worldwide production and distribution capabilities. It operates directly in nine major European markets including Austria, Benelux, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as in Australia and New Zealand, and ofices in the United States and China. STUDIOCANAL finances, produces, and distributes 200 films per year. It owns one of the most prestigious catalogues in the world and the largest catalogue of European titles, boasting more than 9 400 titles from 60 countries. With a catalogue spanning 100 years of film history, STUDIOCANAL has invested close to 25 million euros into the 4K restoration of nearly 1 000 classic feature films over the past 7 years.
STUDIOCANAL also produces over 15 series each year, including local creations and premium international co-productions, and distributes its scripted productions and CANAL+ Originals
globally (2,000 hours of current and library content in distribution). Projects are produced in-house by STUDIOCANAL or through its worldwide network of production companies, including 2e Bureau, Flab, Kissman, Pernel, Upside and Grands Ducs Films in France; Birdie Pictures, Urban Myth Films, Strong Film & Television, Sunny March TV and Brock Media in the UK; Bambú Producciones and Te Espero en Marte in Spain; Lailaps Films and STUDIOCANAL Series in Germany; Opus TV in Poland; Sam Productions in Denmark; Dingie in Belgium; and The Picture Company in the United States.