Hedi Slimane - Designer

[Xone]

Why he wrote on a third person speaking of himself? that's always cringe....

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

"From 2012 to 2016, Slimane, known for his pioneering approach to casting, personally selected or street-cast his models, cultivating a tight-knit community of girls and boys who naturally exuded his recognizable silhouette and signature style.
His “Saint Laurent Girls”, as they became known, were more than his models; they were his inner circle, and the subjects of his ever-expanding photographic archive. For four years, Slimane documented their lives, capturing their carefree, artistic, and effortlessly stylish personas. #hedislimane #kikiwillems #hedigirls"

This excerpt from his Instagram evokes Yves Saint Laurent's exclusive inner circle of friends and muses, nearly impossible to penetrate (Loulou de la Falaise, Betty Catroux, Paloma Picasso, Marisa Berenson...)

 

[Cocteau Stone]

Why he wrote on a third person speaking of himself? that's always cringe....

It’s Hedi Slimane… what else would you expect?

I don’t particularly care for the idea of Hedi at another label/brand/house/atelier. The idea of it just seems bleaker than bleak, especially with some of the other appointments we have going on. Wonder why he hasn’t set up his own label, but at the same time I wonder if his “impact” would be the same when not at another house that’s he’s “transformed” as a pseudo reinvention. Often feels like that is what gets in the way perspective wise when there’s complaints about Hedi at another house that’s he’s changed completely to his liking for the control. Always touted as not “getting it” but if it were just all under his name, brand and licensing, it really wouldn’t be that same at all and leaves people with nothing to actually talk about.

We all seem to love to complain about the Hedi gaslighting, but is that really all there is to him now design wise? He does great basics and staples, but that’s kind of it nowadays.

 

[Kimihiro]

I’d kill for Hedi to go back to Twitter and rant about not getting Chanel.

This whole ‘retrospect’ feels weird, funny and unnecessary.

 

[HigthaVandah]

Maybe he's just working on a photography book and angrily going through his hard drives like "That was me! I was there! I invented that!"

cultivating a tight-knit community of girls and boys who naturally exuded his recognizable silhouette

Cocaine is natural, after a fashion, I suppose.

 

[GIVENCHYlover]

^ Good idea, I wouldn't be surprised if he releases a book... and I would even buy it.

 

[blueorchid]

God, Hedi's Girls is so beyond pretentious. It's missing the spark of what made YSL & his gang interesting, even if you are a mere peon looking at them decades later.