Hedi Slimane

I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity…

— Hedi Slimane

I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.

— Hedi Slimane

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

— Hedi Slimane

People always want an explanation about everything and I cannot give it to them. Because I don't know myself. 'Why did you…

— Hedi Slimane

I like the idea of paradox, between the authentic fabrics and sophisticated shapes and between masculine and feminine. I'm not so much…

— Hedi Slimane

I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic…

— Hedi Slimane

I'm most interested in that moment when my entire perspective changes, and I have to reconsider everything.

— Hedi Slimane

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

— Hedi Slimane

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

— Hedi Slimane

With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will…

— Hedi Slimane

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

— Hedi Slimane

I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like…

— Hedi Slimane

In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only…

— Hedi Slimane

Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought…

— Hedi Slimane

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…

— Hedi Slimane

I love California. It has such a strong contribution to the history of culture, and popular culture. For better and worse, of…

— Hedi Slimane

When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my…

— Hedi Slimane

I don't like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to…

— Hedi Slimane

Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of…

— Hedi Slimane

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

— Hedi Slimane

I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must…

— Hedi Slimane

Music has shaped men’s fashion and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to…

— Hedi Slimane

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

— Hedi Slimane

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

— Hedi Slimane

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for…

— Hedi Slimane