Dear Diary… Rock Diary, that is!

October 14th, 2008

It happened again! Just weeks after announcing Edward Enninful is joining part of the Art+Commerce family, we are happy to hear that our fashion demigod Hedi Slimane is being added to the A+C team!

Officially, the announcement reads as follows:

“Art + Commerce is pleased to announce exclusive representation of Hedi Slimane, a singular talent whose vision crosses one boundary after another: fashion, photography, curating, publishing, industrial design. Slimane is perhaps best known as the creative director of Dior Homme from 2000 to 2007, a role which earned him a CFDA Designer of the Year award in 2002. He has worked as a photographer for French Vogue, Vanity Fair, V, VMan, Purple, and Dazed & Confused. Among the nine books of photography Slimane has published is London Birth of a Cult, a document of London’s postmillenial rock scene viewed through the eyes of Pete Doherty. Slimane has designed compelling architectural spaces from Paris to Shanghai and recently created an original furniture system for Comme des Garçons.” (Editor note: we NEED this furniture!!!)

But this Blog Post is not just lip service… We’ve been obsessed for YEARS! With his debut collection at Dior Homme in 2000, Slimane elevated the Rocker Chic aesthetic to a fine art form, transforming the gritty into the expensive and making subculture sublime. (Case in point: Slimane fashioned an entire Dior Homme collection after Pete Doherty, the rock and roll bad boy equally known for dating Kate Moss, and fronting the Brit band The Libertines.) Below, we’ve pulled some of our favorite looks from the Doherty-inspired Spring ‘06 Dior Homme collection, and if you ever have a chance to meet the secret personalities behind the PRODn Blog, you’d know Slimane’s aesthetic has had a lasting effect.

Hedi Slimane / Dior Homme Spring 2006 Collection

To view a portfolio of Hedi Slimane’s photographs, click here!