Hedi Slimane
Hedi Slimane
Hedi Slimaneis a French photographer and fashion designer. From 2000 to 2007, he held the position of creative director for Dior Homme. From 2012 to 2016, he was the creative director for Yves Saint Laurent. He left the brand on March 31, 2016...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionFashion Designer
Date of Birth5 July 1968
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
photography character documentaries
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
dream fashion luxury
I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.
guy towns truck
David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.
fashion men jeans
An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.
block passion writing
My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.
september-11 together aftermath
Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.
stories remember subjects
I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.
jeans ideas people
People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.
ipads hands needs
The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.
emotion intimacy distraction
I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject ...
sex romance sometimes
Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.
beautiful hipster might
Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.
integrity silly perfect
The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'
cities los-angeles mythology
I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away. There is something almost haunted about it, a vibrant mythology I find rather inspiring.