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Question: Do you have an objective in your photographs? What is it?
Hedi Slimane: Photography has always been about documentary, the depiction of the instant, a moment, sometimes a place. Each project is somehow an experimentation of a specific context or a character.
Question: You’ve described your menswear style as “Fashion = music + youth + sex.” Is that what your photography is also about?
Hedi Slimane: It is maybe less of an hedonistic process. Youth has always been a subject in my photographs, since age 15 really, when I started to photograph my friends, and has been a subject of portraiture until now. Music is somehow related to it, and a metaphor of restlessness, romanticism, utopia somehow. Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.
Question: Your subjects are often vulnerable. Is there someone you would most like to photograph next?
Hedi Slimane: I am quite moved by the signs of time, age, and the urge of my subject to create always, despite a life already behind. I am quite attached to my “heroes.” I fear we could loose them, and I become protective of them. Photography is always a way to preserve, [a vain] attempt to keep your subjects alive, both in their youth and grace or elderness.








Vogue Russia January 2013
"In the Realm of the Senses"
Model: Lara Stone
Photographer: Hedi Slimane
Stylist: Sarah Richardson
Hair: Didier Malige
Makeup: Rose-Marie Swift
Manicure: Megumi Yamamoto
Set Designer: Peter Klein
WARNING: See through topless (2nd, 4th, 5th, & 6th pages)
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Vogue France (Paris) April 2017
"Seine Privée"
Models/Subjects: Alma Jodorowsky, Michel Legrand, Vincent Lacoste, Phoenix, Daniel Buren, Fishbach, La Femme, Françoise Hardy, Cécile Coulon, Benjamin Biolay, Clara Cappagli, Amanda Lear, Rod Paradot, Jean Paul Gaultier, André Téchiné, Michou et les Michettes, Thomas Jolly, Air, Jacques Auberger, Tara-Jay Bangalter, Félix de Givry, Flavien Berger, Quentin Dolmaire, Claude Lalanne, Loulou Robert, Romain Duris, Mathieu Kassovitz, Louis Garrel, Calypso Valois & Étienne Daho
Photographer: Hedi Slimane
Stylist: Emmanuelle Alt
Hair: Damien Boissinot
Makeup: Petros Petrohilos
PART 1
Vogue Paris Digital Edition via aracic at The Fashion Spot