Lola701
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I mean we aren’t in 2000 no more if I recall.Hedi? I could see the appeal and it might work for him and he might help with the fragrance but he hates Tom. He left YSL because of Tom. Can they even afford one of (if not the) most expensive designer on the planet?
Anyway I don’t think he hate Tom. I would say that they are even cordial, even friendly as Richard Buckley was very fond of Hedi. Hence why Tom years ago did that Ice Buckey challenge and nominated Hedi (of course Hedi never did the challenge and I think Tom didn’t expect him to).
And in Los Angeles they have a lot of common friends actually like Lisa Eisner and others…
Hedi at Tom Ford would be a disaster nobody wants to see happen. Thank god it’s never going to happen.I know that Hedi would do insane numbers at TF and they're both very commercial in their approach, but they exist on completely different ends of the aesthtical spectrum. Ford is very "Rive Driote" (glamour, sex, opulence), while Slimane is very "Rive Gauche" (coolness, rebellion, youth).
But your point is quite interesting…I never saw it that way actually. I think the romantic idea of Rive Gauche/ Rive Droite is interesting (as it’s not really relevant nowadays).
It’s funny because for me, Hedi is very Rive Droite because the spirit of Rive Gauche doesn’t exist anymore.
Hedi is very Paris/LA when Tom Ford is actually quite Milan/NYC. However at their prime, both at Gucci for Tom and DH for Hedi, they were both very Rive Gauche.
Hedi’s Celine is so 16eme arrondissement (which has absorbed so much of the Rive Gauche aesthetic over the decades) that it hurts. But if it has to be Rive Gauche, Hedi would be the 7th arrondissement.
But ultimately, I think they are quite opposite. Tom is Classic American fashion infused with French Couture when Hedi is very French Fashion (both Couture and archetypes) infused with American archetypes.
Btw I was told that Hedi recently moved back to Paris…