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The French fashion designer Hedi Slimane (born 1968) began taking photographs long before he started making clothes, as his recent four-volume Anthology of a Decade box set revealed: “I’ve always taken pictures,” he told former Interview magazine editor Ingrid Sischy, “almost like some people take notes or write down their thoughts.” Each volume from this collector’s box set is now available for individual purchase. This volume collects Slimane’s black-and-white photographs taken in Moscow and Berlin: portraits of young men at military academies, on manoeuvers, exercising or resting, collectively or alone, as well as still lifes and snow scenes taken in both cities. This volume is revelatory both as a hitherto little-known instance of Slimane’s many talents, and as an elucidation of his work in fashion.
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This volume collects black-and-white photographs taken in France between 2000 and 2009, including photographs taken at White Stripes, Babyshambles, Franz Ferdinand, Beck and David Bowie gigs, as well as still lifes and portraits of Gus Van Sant, Courtney Love, Pete Doherty and models from casting sessions during Slimane’s tenures at Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent. Of this volume, Douglas Brundage of the blog Hypebeast writes, “For the Francophile fashion-freak, FR is where one can find the majority of Hedi’s haute couture work with Yves Saint Laurent and Dior as well as the requisite documentation of his historical launch of Dior Homme into the fashion stratosphere. Infused with Slimane’s trademark androgynous, glamorous and sleek sex-fueled aesthetic, Anthology of a Decade is revelatory as a testament to the talents of one of the greatest designers, photographers and art directors of the last ten years.”
Published by JRP|Ringier. Edited by Lionel Bovier.
This volume of the Anthology of a Decade series collects Slimane’s black-and-white photos taken in the U.K. between 2005 and 2010. It includes photographs of fans at gigs, images from Slimane’s British Youth series, portraits of James Jagger, Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse, Kate Moss, Miles Kane, Arctic Monkeys, Test Icicles, The Paddingtons, The Libertines, These New Puritans, The Kills, Keith Richard’s guitar collection and the gravestone of William Blake. In the March, 2011 issue of W magazine, Karin Nelson wrote, “As creative director of Dior Homme from 2000 to 2007, Hedi Slimane pioneered a lean, mean, louche aesthetic that revolutionized men’s fashion […] Much like his designs, his photos--which range from action stills of kids at rock concerts to close-ups of his Rolls-Royces--reveal an entirely original vision.”
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Two surfers carrying their boards through a canyon in San Onofre, California; artist Banks Violette’s extensive network of chest and arm tattoos; the phrase “the dance floor” written across a clear blue desert sky; Gore Vidal’s typewriter; a Python 357 revolver; and one of Beck’s acoustic guitars are some of the subjects captured in Hedi Slimane’s photographs in the USA volume of Anthology of a Decade. Taken in New York and Los Angeles between 2007 and 2011, Slimane’s black-and-white images capture celebrities--including Vidal, Kenneth Anger, Ed Ruscha, Courtney Love, Joe Dallesandro, Johnny Rotten, Brice Marden, and Brian Wilson--alongside portraits of beautiful young boys and girls (some of them models, some of them skaters, surfers or street kids), landscapes, street scenes and still lifes.
Fashion in the noughties. Through a collection of Hedi Slimane's photographs of the 2000s,
this book presents the journey of the iconic designer into fashion before, during, and
after his tenures at Yves Saint-Laurent and Christian Dior. It is in this decade that critics
acknowledge Slimane to have infused men's fashion with an androgynous, rock 'n' roll
verve that influenced couture all over the world.
In a 2003 conversation with "Interview's" Ingrid Sischy, Slimane discussed his beginnings as a photographer: "I started taking pictures before I even began in fashion. I didn't start with clothes until I was 16, but I had my first camera when I was 11. I've always taken pictures, almost like some people take notes or write down their thoughts."
The four volumes reveal Slimane's duotone photographs mixing the music scene, street fashion, and his haute couture shows, are as fresh as his paradigm-shifting work in fashion. They reveal his inspirations, his attention to both youth culture and classical references, and attest that his contribution to haute couture was maybe the constant refining of a line and silhouette that was to mark the culture of the noughties.
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