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.

 

[MulletProof]

^ also, literally no one ever called them that, or Saint Laurent Girls.

.. and feeling pedantic but the comma lol ‘Kiki,…. was one of them’. Bye.

 

[Overindulgence]

Placing terms on things is for publication writers, tik tok/twitter fashionfluencers, etc. to do. Or save that for the retrospective. Things become less cool when it gets a term, especially from the source, even if we all knew he created a multiple crews of model muses in the 2010s. I mean, we knew the Kiki/Grace Hartzel/Lili Sumner/Veronika Vilim/Lida Fox were the SL girls - articles at the time called them that. It's weird for his team to be dissecting his legacy like this without a clear agenda in mind; the account feels like one of the many slimane stan accounts that's usually called something like "@saintlaurentgirls" and posts captions like that...

 

[Nimsay]

yes Hedi is irrelevant.

The only reason you can buy colored denim is because of Hedi…

Hedi’s Bleu Clair denim set the standard for classic denim coloring. Even now every store has Bleu Clair available as their main denim colorway.

The only reason Zara looks like Zara is because Hedi. Before Hedi fast fashion fit and looked like trash. The skinny leg fixed all that.

Yes Hedi is irrelevant.

I feel like if you aren’t buying and wearing Hedi you don’t get it…..It’s like the devil wears Prada. You are so far down the line from Hedi you dont even realize he dressed you.

I get it now when people say they have a relationship with Karl through his clothes. I feel the same way with Hedi and will probably be very sad when he dies.

 

[proseccotabis]

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

Is he going through a full blown crisis? That copywriter needs to be SLAPPED sweeties!!!

 

[HigthaVandah]

Is he going through a full blown crisis? That copywriter needs to be SLAPPED sweeties!!!

Nah. If this is what passes for a full blown Hedi crisis in 2025, he's (presumably) in a much better place than he was ten years ago.