PUBLISHER
Charta

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 60 color / 14 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 8/2/2002
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2002 p. 46

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788881583744 TRADE
List Price: $70.00 CAD $85.00

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Not available

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Hedi Slimane: Intermission

Text by Francesco Bonami.

Brad Pitt was married in one of his suits, John Galliano dressed in one of his jackets to receive a prestigious award, Karl Lagerfeld never wears anything else, and women as dashing and fashionable as Madonna, Catherine Deneuve and Cecilia Dean go drag to wear his designs. Hedi Slimane, the young designer who left Yves Saint Laurent to reinvent Christian Dior's menswear image, embraces "the cosmopolitanism of the old-school couturier" as well as "the conventional trappings of the modern-day designer." He reconfigures classical pieces via subtle tailoring tricks, discreetly adding such dandified details as black leather carnation buttonholes, tiny emerald-cut diamond pins clipped to a pant fly, and clear sequins dispersed in the folds of pleats. He is the leader of an anti-technological, anti-velcro revolution that is striving to take men's fashions forward to the luxurious, armorial, sophisticated standards of time past. As Slimane himself has said, "For me, tradition is now." Intermission was conceived and built by Slimane himself as an artist's book and is published in collaboration with Pitti Immagine.