PARIS — Hedi Slimane’s debut on Oct. 1, 2012, as the new creative and image director of Yves Saint Laurent, with a ready-to-wear collection he’d rebranded months before as, simply, Saint Laurent, was the news event of that Paris season.
They came en masse: Kate Moss and Jamie Hince; Marc Jacobs and Diane von Furstenberg; Mario Testino; Valérie Trierweiler, France’s de facto first lady at the time; Azzedine Alaïa; Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurent’s partner and the guardian of his legacy; and Betty Catroux, among the most famous of the designer’s muses. Their anticipation was only heightened by the parallel debut of Raf Simons at Dior, whom the news media insisted on casting (to both men’s evident dissatisfaction) as Mr. Slimane’s foil and opposite.
All were curious to see what would come next for the man who in 2007 abruptly halted his career as the groundbreaking men’s wear designer for Dior Homme — where his pin-thin tailoring was coveted by everyone from Karl Lagerfeld to Madonna — and spent the intervening years as a photographer, mostly in Los Angeles.
By MATTHEW SCHNEIER
Source New York Times
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