Hedi Slimane - Designer

[Lola701]

Hopefully he will post his Dior Homme and Rive Gauche shows. That’s the shows that I want to see.

I’ve always wondered who Hedi lawyer is, because the level of control he secured in his contracts feels almost mythical. The fact that groups like Kering and LVMH agreed to terms where the visual authorship remains so closely tied to him — even to the point of brands wiping or archiving content after he leaves — really says everything about his negotiating power. Honestly, I doubt he had to discount himself to get those rights.

At this point, all I want is a perfectly organized archive of his campaigns laid out in immaculate chronological order. It would cure my OCD instantly — and yes, I’d probably reach a full-on fashion orgasm the moment everything is aligned exactly the way it should be.

Not really his lawyer but more of a reflection of him as a talent.
The fact that he is multidisciplinary, involved in everything makes him sensible in every aspect of things and helps him negotiate things that probably a lot of designers don’t think about….
Choosing to have custom soundtracks by mostly independent bands or artists, make sure that he is credited everywhere, which give him the right to use the videos, he shoots the campaigns, styles the shows and campaigns. He is doing « alone » what an army is doing in a system.

I’m curious to see if he is going to post about Dior and Rive Gauche.
At Rive Gauche he had less power and leverage, never shot the campaigns so it’s probably the Fondation that has the videos. I’m sure he is friendly enough with Madison Cox to have it unlocked.

At Dior, I don’t have the feeling that his system was that locked yet. But he has maintained great relationships with the Arnault/Toledano.
I’m thinking also about the rights to use music.
But since none of it is for monetary gain, maybe it will all work out.

 

[tricotineacetat]

Hopefully he will post his Dior Homme and Rive Gauche shows. That’s the shows that I want to see.


Not really his lawyer but more of a reflection of him as a talent.
The fact that he is multidisciplinary, involved in everything makes him sensible in every aspect of things and helps him negotiate things that probably a lot of designers don’t think about….
Choosing to have custom soundtracks by mostly independent bands or artists, make sure that he is credited everywhere, which give him the right to use the videos, he shoots the campaigns, styles the shows and campaigns. He is doing « alone » what an army is doing in a system.

I’m curious to see if he is going to post about Dior and Rive Gauche.
At Rive Gauche he had less power and leverage, never shot the campaigns so it’s probably the Fondation that has the videos. I’m sure he is friendly enough with Madison Cox to have it unlocked.

At Dior, I don’t have the feeling that his system was that locked yet. But he has maintained great relationships with the Arnault/Toledano.
I’m thinking also about the rights to use music.
But since none of it is for monetary gain, maybe it will all work out.

Since he was so close to Bergé and particularly Lagerfeld, he was very well advised from the very beginning. Lagerfeld, after all, had similar arrangements with tge brands he worked for.

You gotta leave him that he always remained the upper hand in his legal disputes, quite rare to find that in this industry!

 

[Lola701]

Since he was so close to Bergé and particularly Lagerfeld, he was very well advised from the very beginning. Lagerfeld, after all, had similar arrangements with tge brands he worked for.

You gotta leave him that he always remained the upper hand in his legal disputes, quite rare to find that in this industry!

Yes. Being close with Karl and Bergé and overall people of power allowed him to have a vision on those questions. He surely is/was a student of fashion and of the industry.
Karl got away with a lot of things that couldn’t be done today (launching a fragrance named Chloe under his own company while he was at Chloe, owning the rights of the Fendi logo up until selling to LVMH, using loopholes to be able to design with so many brands at the same time…etc).
Pierre Bergé was a frustrated creative so maybe he learned something out of what he did for the campaigns of the collections him and Amber designed.

I would though that I regret that unlike Karl he has the tendency to not share credits…A bit like Tom Ford even if he took it way further.

Making every step of his creative endeavor seems like a solo project when it’s a collective enterprise is a bit of a pity for me.

Obviously he has mastered skills so it’s totally believable to have him solely credited for photography, art direction, styling, the set design. I’m a little bit more puzzle when we talk about architecture and fragrances creation because he would likely be associated with someone…

And as someone who made discover so many musicians, who also helped raising the status of young Francis Kurkdjian or Olivier Polge, it would be great if he associated other people who are maybe more in the conception side.

But yes it’s impressive to see how he has found a way to make the system work for him.

 

[Monsieur Cristobal]

I am not a big fan of Hedi's work but there are some aspects of his personality that I find fascinating.

His sharpness in tayloring comes from the sharpness of his mind in every sense.
He knows perfectly well the people he is dealing with.
And they'd better be correct with him, otherwise they will regret it.