Occupation: Fashion Designer Birth: July 5, 1968
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 a….
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..
I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthro….
I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the….
I shared this idea that fashion starts with a movement, an allure: elusive, defined through perfect proportions..
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 ….
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 of 'standa….
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….
Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation ….
David Bowie, for me, was the butchest guy in town. Jagger was like a truck driver..
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 an….
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 ev….
Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives..
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….
Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality..
Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of my w….
My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid….
Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational..
In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope..
Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age..
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.….