Hedi Slimane - Designer

[PDFSD]

i think its a smart and more chic way of contribution/continuation as the house remains and only the creative directors come by as guest of the house while each contribute to it without erasing the best of each era

like the 2.55 bag the original by coco chanel and the classic version as evolution done by KL

 

[HigthaVandah]

I wonder whether Hedi intentionally gave his perfume bottles protruding ribs, or is making everything that crosses his path skinnier just an unconscious reflex at this point?

 

[kasper!]

Celine Couture, more like premium line. Price is above 1XXXX.

 

[tourbillions]

The celine bedazzler line. How to sell basic baby doll dressess for more than 10k? Bedazzle it

 

[PDFSD]

I wonder whether Hedi intentionally gave his perfume bottles protruding ribs, or is making everything that crosses his path skinnier just an unconscious reflex at this point?

the bottle design is inspired by a very old perfume bottle by a french fragrance house no longer existing from art deco time ..... if i find it again i post he alerted the sides with different rib style design but its really about classism in bottle design .........the bottles dont give skinny vibes to me they are chunky in everyday use picking them up ...but thats me i must have skinny fingers then :-)

 

[HigthaVandah]

classism

Hedi's got one fetish, and it ain't 'classicism'. (Or classism lol)

It's himself.

 

[louis]

Giorgio Armani denied rumours Hedi Slimane may join the house, via MissTweed.
Could this be a hidden confirmation?

 

[Lola701]

Giorgio Armani denied rumours Hedi Slimane may join the house, via MissTweed.
Could this be a hidden confirmation?

I really don’t think we will have any Hedi news until the end of his non competition agreement. Even if he is in talks, it’s secret infos anyway…

 

[HigthaVandah]

Would a non-comp for someone like Hedi also prevent him from doing fashion-related photography?

 

[Lola701]

Would a non-comp for someone like Hedi also prevent him from doing fashion-related photography?

I don’t think so.
Technically, Hedi being the photographer can be considered as an extra, as it is a complementary activity to what he was assigned to. However, I know there’s a limit time frame for the use of visuals. That’s was part of the lawsuit with Hedi and Kering as they continued to use his visual for promotional purpose (I think it was eyewear) beyond the limit fixed in the contract that was of 1 year. To extend the exploitation of those visuals, they needed to pay Hedi.

But tbh, I don’t expect Hedi to shoot a bunch of things anyway as he may have a lot of requirements, and be totally in control of everything beyond the budgets. I guess he would work with his friends and specific stylists. And for a big brand, he is in charge! We saw it with his Prada campaigns: totally Hedi!

 

[tricotineacetat]

I find the very consideration of Hedi Slimane at Giorgio Armani to be amusing at best - In terms of their respective styles, they couldn’t be further apart!

Armani is a house build around a fluid idea of tailoring, making Stefano Pilati, Christophe Lemaire, Samuel Drira or the Olsons his natural torchbearers, not Slimane.

 

[Frederic01]

Why did Celine delete most of their posts on IG but keep a selective few from Hedi's era? Confusing, no?

 

[HigthaVandah]

It's all recent things.They still have rights for some of Hedi's photography for the collections currently in stores and the final collections that will be in stores early next week. And I guess they're leaving up the Hedi era interior design photos too.

 

[Lola701]

Why did Celine delete most of their posts on IG but keep a selective few from Hedi's era? Confusing, no?

They may have the rights of exploitations for some not for others anymore but also, they might be preparing for the next chapter of the brand.
That’s why I mentioned earlier that it will be interesting to see how they handle the visuals he has made for the beauty entity.

Ultimately, fashion is seasonal and they may not have to exploit the visuals of the SS2025 collections by the time it hits the stores but Hedi has shot fragrances ads for fragrances that are launching in 2026 so I wonder if they will extend the exploitations rights of the beauty division.

I know Dior hired Jude Law when Hedi left, for Dior Homme and Karl started to shoot the fashion campaigns but I don’t remember if the visuals for the others fragrances and the skincare were updated in 2008 too.

 

[Kimihiro]

He’s still credited for the fragrances even if he possibly didn’t photograph last fragrance post so I think it’s a different arrangement.

 

[Lola701]

He’s still credited for the fragrances even if he possibly didn’t photograph last fragrance post so I think it’s a different arrangement.

Hedi is still credited as part of the creation of Bois d’Argent. I don’t think he receive any kind of compensation because it is a property of Christian Dior Parfums anyway…
However, he is not credited in the creation of Dior Homme. Btw, there’s no official credit anymore as the perfumer under Dior Homme is Olivier Polge.

But there’s a real difference between a fragrance where all the rights goes back to the company commissioning the product and a photography which is the property of the creator and can be exploited commercially only under specific arrangements.

Currently, there’s no official perfumer under the Celine Haute Parfumerie line. If ever LVMH decides to give an official position to a perfumer as the head of Celine Parfums, credits may evolve but it’s more for historic purposes than financial compensation.