I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective. Hedi Slimane More Quotes by Hedi Slimane More Quotes From Hedi Slimane I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything. Hedi Slimane perspectivefashionmoments 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 fashionmusiclife In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope. Hedi Slimane fashionrealphilosophy Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational. Hedi Slimane irrationalfashion 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 luxuryfashiondream Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character. Hedi Slimane documentariesphotographycharacter 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 passionblockwriting 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 luxurydesignfashion 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 jeansfashionmen 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 fashionmenthinking 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 fashionmilitarywitty 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 californiastronginteresting When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood. Hedi Slimane jeanshomekids Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality. Hedi Slimane fabricfashionmen 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 jeanspeopleideas 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. Hedi Slimane littlesmenthinking The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it. Hedi Slimane ipadshandsneeds David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver. Hedi Slimane trucktownsguy I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact. Hedi Slimane back-whendesignpassion 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 joycharacteryears
