62 Quotes by Hedi Slimane

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. 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 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.

The framework of men’s wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

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

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.

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.

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

I thought I should work more on the idea that you wear a suit or a jacket because of the fun it can provide, because it’s a game, because it might even have a sexual quality.