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| All photographs belong to Hedi Slimane via his website. All Rights Reserved ® |
Hedi
Slimane. Born
in Paris in 1968 from a Tunisian father and an Italian mother (dress
maker), discover photography when he got his
first camera at 11. Five years later he started making his own clothes -inherit trade from
mom maybe- later he went to the École du Louvre and studied Art
History. Organically he become involved in the fashion world, evolving
and creating amazing pieces and changing menswear making it darker, more exciting and all together more rock.
I got to know him for his super contrasted Black & White online photos, a few years ago. Later I learned that he was taking a break from a
very successful career as Artistic Director of Dior Homme, a fact that was described by Fashion Wire Daily (2007) this way: “Slimane leaves Dior
with the well-earned reputation as the single most influential men’s
designer this century, the most copied of his peers and the only one to
achieve the status of a rock star.” You can
read about this here and here.
Before abandoning the fashion world in 2007, in that hiatus from Yves Saint Laurent in early 2000 he moved to Berlin and started a residency at Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, where he fell in love with photography again and started publishing books.
In his website you can loose yourself browsing the endless gallery of young musicians, models, artists and actors. Consistently with his inclination towards menswear his photos of guys are more frequent and very intimate.
Men stand out and are deeply moving in an unusual way while being photographed in soft, ethereal, almost too feminine poses, while remaining manly and sexy.
Women are also sexy but strong, is a powerful combination of ambiguity and
modernity with no space for cliches.
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Go ahead take a walk in Hedi Slimane's world, and read Austin Considine's wonderful piece about him in The New Yorker: A Fashion Designer's Second Act.
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