14 Hedi Slimane Quotes for You to Enjoy

Hedi Slimane

French Designer

Born: Jul 5, 1968

Always Fashion Me Men Music You

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

Positive Needs Perspective Always Context Loved Right Designing

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

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

Character Photography Sometimes Project About Somehow Instant Documentary Always Context Been Depiction Experimentation Place Moment Each Specific

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

Fashion Me Purely Somehow Irrational Happily

Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography. Hedi Slimane

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

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

Passion Design Back Project Come Intact Going Again Keep Right

With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry. Hedi Slimane

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

Needs Before Put Catch iPad Hand Up Flash

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 Fashion Men Military Difficult Heritage Out Shaped Leads Genetically Witty Manner Figure Who Connected Riding Playful

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

Good Fashion You Man Will Naked Whatever Clothes Dancer Unless Athletic Classic Only Simply Like Look Call Him Very Forget Going Want Happen Jeans Pair Designer Suit

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

Best Fashion You Creative Quality World Luxury Will Field Design Consistent High Stay Embraced Fabrics Collusion Between Like Know Most Felt Always Where Stand Street Belong

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

Fashion Construction Men Fabrics Mentality Also Certain

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