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Hedi Slimane Biography

Hedi Slimane (French pronunciation: [eˈdi sliˈman]; born July 5, 1968) is a French photographer and fashion designer. From 2000 to 2007, he held the position of creative director for Dior Homme (the menswear line of Christian Dior). From 2012 to 2016, he was the creative director for Yves Saint Laurent. He left the brand on March 31, 2016.

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David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

Driver, Guy, Jagger, Towns, Truck

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Age, Focus, Genders, Misspelled, Perception

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.

Fun, Games, Idea, Ideas, Suit, Work

I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed.

Emotional, Esoteric, Fashion, Parade, Sides, Totally

The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

Edges, Framework, Labeled, Men, Narrow, Play

I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.

Fashion, Men, Possibility, Seductive, Thinking

In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.

Efforts, Fashion, Hope, Philosophy, Real

When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood.

Clothes, Home, Kids, Neighborhood, Remember, Telling

Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.

Fashion, Military, Riding, Shaped, Witty

[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.

Another Year, Fashion, Thing, Year, Years

I've always done the style that I loved, so I didn't mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It's about that style. It's not Hedi Slimane. You know, I'm not all that familiar with his thing-I really don't look. I certainly know who he is.

Fashion, Hedi, Jeans, Know, Old, Style

Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of my work, from photography to fashion design, is about and around music.

Anthology, Attitude, Fashion, Like, Photography, Quite

Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

Aftermath, September, September 11, Together

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.

Block, Invent, Kid, Kids, Passion

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

California, Degree, History, Interesting, Strong, Worst

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.

Complicity, Distraction, Emotion, Intimacy, Subject

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.

Explanation, Ideas, Jeans, Painted, Pants, People

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

Fashion, Happily, Irrational, Purely

I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

Idea, Ideas, Like, Masculine And Feminine, Paradox, Thinking

I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

Black And White, Photographers, Teenage, Thinking, True

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