Hedi Slimane - Photographer

[MUXU]

^wow...that camera is really really expensive but it looks like a real sharp cam

 

[Diorette]

Vogue Paris December / January 07.08 (HQs)

Charlotte, mots pour mots



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[BerlinRocks]

sent via pm by twin star (sorry if you wanted to be discreet) :

Hedi Slimane back to "rock" Paris


By Dominique Vidalon
PARIS (Reuters Life!) - French fashion designer Hedi Slimane, whose razor-thin black suits have changed the way men dress, is back in Paris but not on a catwalk.
Slimane, who abruptly parted ways with Dior Homme in March after a seven-year relationship, is staging a rock exhibit at Galerie Almine Rech in the Marais district through January.
Entitled "Perfect Stranger," it features Slimane's shots of fans and various audio and visual recordings he made during the Benicassim rock festival in Spain last July.
Like his previous photography books devoted to documenting a burgeoning London rock scene, Slimane's sleek minimalist black-and-white photos reflect his obsession with music and notably the fans.
"I spent one week, 24/7 shooting hundreds of fans...Fans and the appropriation mechanism are at the core of Perfect Stranger," Slimane told Reuters.
"Music is without a doubt key to building an identity or a sensibility," he added.
The Paris show is the first leg of a larger project Slimane is working on with Spain's MUSAC (The Castilla y León Museum of Contemporary Art). There will be a show in Spain in May and a book.
ROCK RITUALS
Over the years, the 39-year-old Slimane has used his passion for photography and his connections to the rock world to pursue his quest for the mythology of rock, documenting rock concert rituals, the fans, and the whole infrastructure of a gig.
From Benicassim, Slimane brought back a fragment of Amy Winehouse's stage, an eerie film on the smoke machine The Klaxons used while performing, large-scale shots of fans mounted on crash barriers, and an installation of lamps, loudspeakers and floor glitter powder.
"My focus has always been on the codes, the signs, something like attempting a fragmentation or a semantic definition of the rock world, of a tradition based on a few codes that are being perpetually recycled," he said.
One of his first books of photographs "Stage" captured an emerging new rock scene in London and in America and in 2005 he released "London: The Birth Of A Cult", a book of photos inspired by the London scene and British rocker Pete Doherty.
"Since early 2000, I have been involved in the birth of a new rock scene. I documented, dressed, put on catwalks and sometimes produced many of its protagonists, particularly those from the English scene," he said.
"The start of Franz Ferdinand, the Libertines' troubles, the emergence of Pete Doherty...That was before rock was everywhere, on fashion runways and in advertising," Slimane recalled.
Slimane's passion for rock music is at the root of his creative process.
"Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed," he said.
FASHION PASSION INTACT
It is often said that Slimane has revolutionized male fashion with his rock-inspired androgynous clothes made for and modeled by skinny young men.
His trademark slim black suits have been copied the world over. Slimane himself even became the subject of a song by Keys To The Streets Of Fear, a Boston punk band.
In turn, the bands that inspired him have often ended up wearing his clothes from new acts such Razorlight to old-timers like David Bowie or Mick Jagger.
In March, luxury goods giant LVMH did not renew Slimane's contract as artistic director for the Christian Dior menswear line, replacing him with Belgian designer Kris Van Assche.
The split was apparently ignited by Slimane's desire to launch his own label and branch into women's fashion, though LVMH chief Bernard Arnault offered to fund Slimane's line.
Slimane made a statement on his Web site at the time to explain his choice, saying he did not want to lose his creative freedom, sell his name and lose control of his own brand.
Since parting ways with Dior, Slimane has led a nomadic existence between Los Angeles, Berlin and Paris. This Summer he curated a group show entitled 'Sweet Bird of Youth' in Berlin with emerging New York artists and held a solo show at the Ellipse foundation in Lisbon.
Slimane said his future and his interest in fashion remain inextricably linked.
"My passion for fashion is absolutely intact...I need to be totally involved to again commit myself to a new fashion or perfume project," he said. "I feel totally free. I have not reclaimed my freedom. I never lost it."
Hedi Slimane//Perfect Stranger
From November 29, 2007 to January 5, 2008
Galerie Almine Rech
19, Rue de Saintonge
Paris 75003
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon, editing by Paul Casciato)

reuters.com

last week there was a tv itw of him on Canal+ in La Matinale...
he talked about this exhibit'...

 

[LetThemEatCake]

Courtney Love's London gig at Shepherd's Bush 07.09.2007
HediSlimane.com

 

[laurlaur]

He's really great. Especially with those concert photos. I can't wait to see more of his stuff.

 

[BerlinRocks]

do you think this is for an upcoming editorial???????
it looks good....
if this is from an already published editorial, could you please tell it...? thanks.




{hedi slimane diary}

 

[Danish]

I looked through his website and I just love his vision; it's amazing

 

[MissMagAddict]

KATE LIBERATION
March 8, 2008
Photographed by Hedi Slimane










source | hedislimane

 

[unipine]

lovely. thank you.

 

[mistress_f]

PHASE ONE
P 45

does anybody know what camera does it use the phase one on?

 

[pucci_mama]

Wow. Courtney looks fantastic in them, such power.

 

[Cindysaurus]

i really really love his photos; they seem so... i don't know, it's hard to describe. realistic? they capture a lot of emotion.

 

[liashoes]

NY Mag


Slimane Shoots Sasha for French ‘Vogue’

Ahh, the Slimane magic.Source: The Fashion Spot

French Vogue’s upcoming April issue includes some pretty major fashion heavyweights. Kate Moss snagged the cover in a cropped black jacket. Daria Werbowy leaps around in long, colorful dresses inside. But the most amazing thing in the mag? The photos of Sasha Pivovarova. It's not just that they're totally gorgeous pictures. It's that they were shot by Hedi Slimane. Yes, our man-crush is back! We were going through massive Slimane withdrawal. So we don't get to actually see him, but Sasha, who was styled by Emmanuel Alt, looks superb with her messy hair and ornate cocktail dresses. —Kendall Herbst

Notice the source for the photos! Sasha's thread, no?

 

[Diorette]

Vogue Paris April 2008 (HQs)

Simplement Couture
Photographed by Hedi Slimane
Styled by Emmanuelle Alt



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[LetThemEatCake]

Only Hedi could make me appreciate Sasha. I really dont care for her, (mostly on the runways where always appears to be sucking in her cheekbones) but these are acceptable. Maybe I just love all his work.

 

[liashoes]

^^Can't help but agree with you El Lay. Hedi seemingly turns the foul into the palatable or even like or beyond.

 

[Inaya]

Vogue Hommes International / Spring/Summer 2008
Fetish
Photography: Hedi Slimane
Styling: Carine Roitfeld
featuring: Josh Beech




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[kahlilg]

#2998 - I know it's about Carine but Hedi wrote it. I learned a lot about him from reading it.

 

[OasiSunit]

Those pics of Sasha are incredible! Never heard of her before, but I saw other pics of her and I seem to only think she looks amazing in Hedi's