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.

 

[Nimsay]

Dont forget denim bars. A whole industry Hedi single handedly created…

Before Hedi Japanese denim was unheard of. After him there are boutiques dedicated to it….

That whole Danner Red Wing look is an off shoot of Dior Homme’s Japanese denim…

Hedi puts money into countless peoples pockets he can have all the attitude he wants.

 

[style_expert]

For what it's worth, in her recent podcast, Lauren Sherman repeated the earlier rumor that Hedi bought an apartment in Milan. This time, she presented it more as a fact, mentioning it in the context of both Gucci and Armani.

 

[Thefrenchy]

For what it's worth, in her recent podcast, Lauren Sherman repeated the earlier rumor that Hedi bought an apartment in Milan. This time, she presented it more as a fact, mentioning it in the context of both Gucci and Armani.

Maybe she reads tFS or we go to the same dinners >> Hedi Slimane - Designer

 

[Xone]

Maybe she reads tFS or we go to the same dinners >> Hedi Slimane - Designer

I think lots of these fashion journalists, green square, critics or whoever else are reading TFS...and this is a forum...even if someone says "i know for a fact" sometimes it is not true, we are just discussing things of the industry. The only thing that i agree with Luke's article is that sometimes houses changes their mind at last minute or negotiations ended abruptly which of course is nothing new.

i trust you more @Thefrenchy

 

[Creative]

I think lots of these fashion journalists, green square, critics or whoever else are reading TFS...and this is a forum...even if someone says "i know for a fact" sometimes it is not true, we are just discussing things of the industry. The only thing that i agree with Luke's article is that sometimes houses changes their mind at last minute or negotiations ended abruptly which of course is nothing new.

i trust you more @Thefrenchy

Almost all the rumours are true tbh, specially the ones you hear inside a group from people that work there. And yes, there are many times that things are about to happen and something changes last minute. One of the most long lasting designers at a fashion house from recent times was going to be replaced in 2019… after a few years at the house. But it didn’t happen. I am sure Blazy was not even in the top 10 first options for Chanel… Same for Sabato at Gucci. Negotiations are quite hard.

There is going to be a partnership between a big fashion house and a big “sport company” and believe me, I thought it was going to be cancelled every day. Imagine someone spills the rumour and they end up cancelling the project… it doesn’t mean it was not true.

 

[Frederic01]

Hedi buying a house in Milano is very indicative of him moving into a design position there. You don’t move to Milano unless it’s for a job. It is very much so an industry city.

Armani makes no sense for him, especially the menswear, which is literally polar opposite to everything he stands for as a designer. In that way all signs point to Gucci…

 

[tourbillions]

hedi for agnona

 

[Kanzai]

^Agnona won't have enough money to pay for Hedi's uber-ego treatment pills.