Hedi Slimane - Designer

[Grets]

Hot take. Hedi Slimane's Dior Homme is the best era of Dior ever. I love Galliano, but Hedi is above fashion. He is style.

 

[HigthaVandah]

Popping in from my self-imposed tfs break to thank you all for sharing your rumors/insights/speculations!

And good to see you back, PDFSD : )

 

[reese06]

Hot take. Hedi Slimane's Dior Homme is the best era of Dior ever. I love Galliano, but Hedi is above fashion. He is style.

They’re incomparable and there’s a reason why no one does.

Galliano reinvented Dior’s vision of women and Hedi redefined men and how they dress to this day. One was couture fantasy, the other was razor cut realism.

 

[Lola701]

Hot take. Hedi Slimane's Dior Homme is the best era of Dior ever. I love Galliano, but Hedi is above fashion. He is style.

Are they comparable?
Hedi’s Dior has almost nothing to do with Christian Dior…

 

[PDFSD]

because dior has little to do with menswear so what he could use he did and the rest is imagend and open to interpretation.

also his design philosophy was different at the time more about modernity and movement then reviving the house codes to a T .

i think MGC was the most consistently Dior how ever monotone or boring it was .
many things galiano did he did before joining dior he just added the bar jacket and the archive into it

JWA is doing a more dept research of dior but the outcome is just to quirky so it gets lost but all the research is clever just not used well with one missing element beauty of dior the instantly readable as pretty instead he is just doing cutsey quirky.

most modern as pure as can be dior was raf first HC collection so far.

 

[Lola701]

because dior has little to do with menswear so what he could use he did and the rest is imagend and open to interpretation.

also his design philosophy was different at the time more about modernity and movement then reviving the house codes to a T .

i think MGC was the most consistently Dior how ever monotone or boring it was .
many things galiano did he did before joining dior he just added the bar jacket and the archive into it

JWA is doing a more dept research of dior but the outcome is just to quirky so it gets lost but all the research is clever just not used well with one missing element beauty of dior the instantly readable as pretty instead he is just doing cutsey quirky.

most modern as pure as can be dior was raf first HC collection so far.

So saying that Hedi’s Dior is a best Dior is quite paradoxal.
It could be the best Hedi but in the frame of the house, it’s a different story…Even detached from Christian Dior Monsieur.

 

[PDFSD]

So saying that Hedi’s Dior is a best Dior is quite paradoxical.
It could be the best Hedi but in the frame of the house, it’s a different story…Even detached from Christian Dior Monsieur.

For menswear at Dior he has been and still is the best so far that happened there ...this i agree....he practically made it a believable part of dior universe as brand and business.

Again with the little Dior has to do with menswear univers.

He never did womens wear so apart for some ladies in his suits, but it does not count for me.

but i like paradoxical statements on here it what makes me come back

i think dior has a fast fashion problem it changed with every CD and has not benefited like chanel from a more constant reinstating of codes beside the easy to see bar jackets or the gannage

i think many don't even see grey and think of dior per example the house codes tend to be there
as fillers

i am sure if Hedi came back to Dior the house would be more classic then what he did first time.
the clean stiff HC cultural stuff he likes to do was there in dior also

 

[Caffeine]

lol the guy is a like KL a work machine

he is very on time with his collections he already proved it with Celine´s multitude of collections drops and production value that comes with those collection and ad films all timed perfectly etc

this is not an issue.

Regarding out of ideas is like asking Ralph Lauren or Coco Chanel to change like Miuccia prada evers 6 months, Hedi pride himself on consistency and not changing so the project would not be about every season doing a complete 360 fashion but a gradual one.

Lets not forget Dior himself was only for 10 years if MGC can survive 9 years long Hedi will 2 at Dior

Any ways hedi proved his Dior already and nobody can take that time away it was iconic, even if one did not like the clothes.

he is weak for evening but so is JWA if i had to choose i rather look like mother of the bride than wearing JWA dior and look like a bag of salt meme.

I mean, jwa and even less so Blazy are certainly not the same level of designers as Hedi. Why do we even compare them?

 

[fruitdots]

First time scrolling mensfashion on reddit - instant Superfuture flashback. The archetypes are still there, just warped: Street Ninja and Blade-Runner Librarian in endless rotation. The only real update is a flare at the hem. That tells me the well of inspiration is dry and everyone’s still orbiting Dior Homme - Hedi’s era remains the last truly defining moment for early-20s cool.

There’s Rick everywhere, too. But who’s still wearing Rick in 2025? I did the Geobaskets with Riccardo-era Givenchy when it was so new nobody considered it a hit.

We do need a fresh, seismic reset in men’s RTW. Is Hedi the one to deliver it? No - he’s a very specific look. Until a new visionary redraws the silhouette, give me timeless Hedi clothes - carved like an obelisk.

I see far more Raf Simons in contemporary menswear than Hedi. So much of the past decade was prefigured by Raf's 90s & 2000s collections—they really anticipate everything from Vetements to Daniel Lee's Bottega (and then Mathieu's Bottega too, as a protege of Raf). A lot of Hedi's collections feel dead now, and he doesn't really have protegés, does he? Lucas Ossendrijver? His menswear might actually be closer to the contemporary than Hedi's.

 

[Kanzai]

^ I think Raf and his approach is kinda generic, influenced by Helmut Lang and Margiela so it's no wonder it seems more "modern" and "contemporary". I think in 2025 people will say that "sleek" and "sensual" fashion, with cuts and fabrics combinations that scream expensive will be considered corny and passé. Hedi thrived in the Vogue Paris era so his style is very obsessive about specific contexts and aesthetics and Idk how to say it but it's like you have to do a lot of mental work to wear his clothes, unless you're carefully mix-matching them with clothes from other designers and not wearing full look Dior Homme/Saint Laurent/Celine. Raf is lucky because he has had the opportunity to work at important houses, but I don't think he is a better and more "modern" menswear designer than his contemporaries with a somewhat similar punk/moody/soft-rawness/modern approaches like Ann Demeulemeester, Lucas, Jun Takahashi, Chitose Abe, Neil Barrett and younger designers like Damir Doma, Demna.

 

[Nimsay]

Raf retconning stops today. Im not letting you turn him into a Helmut Lang or Jil Sander. Raf has always sucked even back when he was supposedly good. A bunch of unwearable but still nothing to look at strapless hoop skirts are nothing important in fashion. How do you manage to make it unwearable and boring - Raf has a unique skillset thats for sure.

Someone here told me that CK putting themselves out of business for Raf was evidence that his Dior was so good. Very unserious takes.

 

[PDFSD]

i dont see Hedi chasing to be contemporary as in the box of design , he wants to be of this time a youthful but niche expressionas He is known for mining the lo-fi music scene into or what ever wave that is upcoming even as they die out just as fast the goal is to be the first to be part of it .

Raf likes techno Hedi likes indie rock some where kraftwerk and david bowie makes them meet in the middle but that's it.

 

[PDFSD]

I mean, jwa and even less so Blazy are certainly not the same level of designers as Hedi. Why do we even compare them?

Because one did dior home in the past and one is doing it now
For blazy its the chanel link KL loved Hedi but Blazy became the chosen one for the company

We cant be sure Hedi was never considered for chanel at one point by the company.

comparison is not equal too always , it depends on context its like saying if i had to choose between a kelly or chanel classic i know what my choice would be even if technically they are not same function or construction style etc .

 

[tricotineacetat]

Can we perhaps just agree that all the young men that debuted in this year suck and that both Hedi and Raf have each rightfully earned their place in contemporary fashion history in a way that (hopefully) neither of what Blazy/Lee/Rider/Anderson designed will come close to?

All I keep wondering about is why Patrick van Ommeslaeghe was never courted to helm a storied maison, when his talent clearly surpasses that of the aforementioned.