Latest Hedi Slimane Quotes from Interviews

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• Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.

  Hedi Slimane

  September 11, Together, Aftermath

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• I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.

  Hedi Slimane

  Stories, Remember, Behinds

  Source: www.cnn.com

• I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that could potentially preserve their grace, fierce joy, and restlessness.

  Hedi Slimane

  Character, Years, Joy

  Source: www.cnn.com

• Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of my work, from photography to fashion design, is about and around music.

  Hedi Slimane

  Photography, Fashion, Attitude

  Source: www.cnn.com

• Mostly the subject of the photograph, which can be anyone really, coming down the street - someone that has no idea. "Heroism" in photography, just like in a novel, is for everyone.

  Hedi Slimane

  Photography, Ideas, Heroism

  Source: www.cnn.com

• 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 on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

  Hedi Slimane

  Block, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.cnn.com

• 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, stubborn, lifetime black-and-white photographers, as opposed to black-and-white as a photographic commodity.

  Hedi Slimane

  Teenage, Black And White, Thinking

  Source: www.cnn.com

• I presume my work has also always been about reduction without any distraction or after effects, outside emotions, or intimacy or complicity with the subject.

  Hedi Slimane

  Emotion, Intimacy, Distraction

  Source: www.cnn.com