Hedi Slimane - Designer

[Irere]

Nobody's mentioned Joop! yet?

♪ Joop! There it is! Joop! There it is! ♪

 

[Phuel]

Chanel, Chanel, Chanel — you all have such narrow minds. There are so many possibilities. Who says the brand even has to be active? There are lots of fashion houses waiting to be Slimaned!

One of the hottest brands now — Loewe — was seen as hopelessly passé and irrelevant just a decade ago. Less than twenty years ago, Celine was ignored by the fashionable set, and Balenciaga had long been closed. Pierre Cardin was licensed to cheaply made discount store goods, Mugler was reduced to a perfume line, and Courrèges was a footnote in fashion history books. So again, why limit one’s sights to the list of usual big names like Chanel and Dior?

There are many houses and brands that were once major players that are now barely around, just waiting for a renewal:

• Aquascutum
• Byblos
• Cacharel
• Nino Cerruti
• Costume National
• Escada
• Louis Féraud
• Romeo Gigli
• Krizia
• Guy Laroche
• Léonard
• Pringle
• Trussardi

And there are plenty of dead houses to be revived out there. If Schiaparelli can rise like Lazarus, why not one of these?

• Oleg Cassini
• Jacques Fath
• Gianfranco Ferré
• Grès
• Ted Lapidus
• Lucien Lelong
• Claude Montana
• Hanae Mori
• Paul Poiret
• Sonia Rykiel
• Jean-Louis Scherrer
• Torrente
• Vionnet

Never cared for Chanel, but Chanel is incomparable as a label to any other. When all the Houses have fallen— even when the world is burned to the ground, Chanel will remain standing, and making a profit. No exaggeration LOL

Hedi giving new life to Ferre— a personal fav, would be all kinds of wonderful to be Slimaned. But admittedly, Hedi at Chanel— his swan song for Celine may as well be his debut at Chanel, and his finest womenswear offering to boot, would be also all kinds of wonderful. As phenomenally successful and influential as he is for womenswear, his menswear was always superior. And for Chanel to finally have a worthy menswear designer with Hedi, because we’ve already seen his vision of Chanel Men in his Dior Homme A/W 2006 and Celine A/W 2024, is the sort of fashion high and marriage that only comes along once in a fashion lifetime (...but I still wouldn't buy it LOL)

 

[yslforever]

Nobody's mentioned Joop! yet?

Calvin Klein ?
Going from Bruce Weber studs to pubescent twinks.

 

[FashionPower]

Calvin Klein ?
Going from Bruce Weber studs to pubescent twinks.

Calvin got the new girl Veronica Leoni...the image of the brand is tarnished forever after Raf's disastrous tenure, people are gonna think of CK as a tacky underwear brand, so any brand elevation strategy is going to fail miserably