Hedi Slimane Quotes

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• Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind…
• [It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.
• I'd like men to think about evolving into something more sophisticated, more seductive. To explore the possibility of an entirely new masculinity.
• I've always done the style that I loved, so I didn't mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It's about that style.…
• I discovered Los Angeles in the late 90s. The city was not at its best at the time, but I fell for it right away.…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• The perfect integrity of The NewYork Times, and its writers, is not precisely 'just silly nonsense,'
• David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver.
• In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope.
• I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing…
• I'm going to design again, but I come back when it's the right project, so I keep my passion for it intact.
• 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…
• Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.
• 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…
• I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective.
• 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.
• Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.
• The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

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