List of Hedi Slimane Quotes

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.

Mostly The Subject Of The Photograph, Which Can Be Anyone Really, Coming Down The Street - Someone That Has No Idea. "heroism" In Photography, Just Like In A Novel, Is For Everyone.

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. There Is Something Almost Haunted About It, A Vibrant Mythology I Find Rather Inspiring.

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.

I Always Loved Designing, But The Context Needs To Be Right, And Have A Positive Perspective.

The Framework Of Men's Wear Is So Narrow, That When You Play At The Edges You Get Labeled.

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. It's Not Hedi Slimane. You Know, I'm Not All That Familiar With His Thing-i Really Don't Look. I Certainly Know Who He Is.

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.

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.

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 Some Dresses At Night.

Sex Is Not A Subject In My Photographs, Or Would Only Be If It Had To Do With Romance, Sometimes Vulnerability. The Photographs Are Quite Clearly About Happiness, Or Search For Happiness.

[it's] Not One Thing This Year, One Thing Another Year.