Hedi Slimane Quotes

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

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• I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of course. Even the worst can be interesting to some degree sometimes for somebody creative.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • California
  • History of culture

• The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Framework of men's

• 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.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Life
  • Music
  • Ideas

• I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much for sportswear. I think it's over.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Feminine
  • Masculine
  • Idea of Paradox

• David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • David Bowie
  • Butchest guy

• I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Idea
  • Movement
  • Fashion starts

• I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Subjects
  • Organic
  • Personal story

• People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you do a pair of pants like that?' I have no idea. I'm not going to have a 20-minute political discussion about the necessity for slashed, painted leather jeans. Basically, I don't know more than you.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • People
  • Explanation
  • Political discussion

• The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense...

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Integrity
  • Writers
  • Nonsense

• I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it's a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Game
  • Idea
  • Suit

• Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads but music and fashion are connected genetically.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Music
  • Men’s fashion
  • Military heritage

• I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Ritual
  • Anthropology
  • Fashion Show

• Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Construction
  • Mentality
  • Fabrics

• I don’t like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That’s what I’ve always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • High fashion design
  • High street

• An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Fashion
  • Athletic man
  • Classic suit

• I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Work
  • Emotions
  • Intimacy

• I started as a black-and-white teenage photographer, and I'm still there decades after. In some ways, the genre is almost gone. I am thinking of true, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Black-and-white
  • Teenage photographer
  • Photographic commodity

• I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Characters
  • Anthology
  • Potographic reliquary

• Hedi was and is still misspelled Heidi and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Age
  • Genders
  • Heidi

• I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Men
  • Possibility
  • Masculinity

• Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Internet
  • September 11

• I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Dream
  • Fantasy
  • Luxury

• My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Parents
  • Passion
  • Camera

• The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.

  

  Hedi Slimane
  • Flash
  • iPad