The Evolution of Masculinity: Hedi Slimane at Dior Homme

You could see that was Hedi Slimane.

He changes gradually, but he'll

the fabrics and the way he cuts.

And the details and the bijou.

A thousand different pieces of jewelry.

I like that.

♫ Oh, you better step away

♫ Number one in Heaven

♫ with the bullet

♫ I'll come for you when I can

♫ Tell them I'm smiling.

Hi, this is Tim Blanks for Style.Com

and we're gonna go back 10 years,

and look at a collection that man of the moment,

Hedi Slimane did for Dior Homme.

This is Hedi Slimane 10 years ago.

What Hedi has done with his career is,

he hasn't played in a band,

but he's essentially made a context for himself,

which is everything except playing in a band.

He's a quintessential designer as rock star.

I try to explore what's already exists

in the streets which is a

certain idea of

wearing clothes, of behaving.

These exist as just trying to translate who Dior.

The guys are chosen, they were sort of a

street casting a lot of them.

Some of them are models, but he wanted them

to look like themselves, and they're kind of,

I don't know if they're skaters or you know,

they're kind of punks.

I love that kinda dandy, that kinda grotesque

dandy look and I ask what it was for me.

I wish more people would take a chance

and make clothes like that.

There's not femininity to what he does at all.

The lines are masculine, the lines are strong.

And very architectural,

and consequently, you know,

you can pile all those bracelets on your wrists,

and you can hang all those chains from the lapel.

And it doesn't look girly at all,

it looks very, very masculine.

[Interviewer] Is it a new masculinity?

Or is it just a pure masculinity?

No, I think it's an evolution, Monsier.

[David] I think in those days,

he was a little more

engaged in creating a look.

Coming to Saint Laurent 10 years later,

he's not picked up where he left off,

which a lot of people assumed he would do.

Whatever he does next is always gonna be

a source of great fascination to everyone.

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[Tim] And that was Hedi Slimane for Dior Homme.

How much do you think his work

has changed in the last 10 years?

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