Hedi Slimane

THE PROGRAM WILL EVOLVE DURING THE EXHIBITION PERIOD

Select California bands will contribute to the installation, using a fragmentary sound system, and panoramic scores

Hedi Slimane's "Califorina Period" did more than extend his signature explorations of urban youth culture out of the European platforms of Berlin and London. It also gave his photography the merit of truly capturing in an unprecedented way the ideal of youth in that California context . Slimane achieved this in a way no other photographer of this generation did . Quality of light met a defined quality of life and, as such , mutual myths (of both Slimane and of California's youth) were perpetrated. Clips from the press release post jump

"Striking portrait of youth, coming of age and one year surviving in London in tough times and recession" Maria Kirk:MDX

Now that Mr Slimane has confirmed his return to the fashion design arena,

Hedi Slimane Color Treatment

Don't you love how Hedi captures that California light even when in stark monochrome .

A study in gravitas

COMING OUT MARCH 2011

Variations on a theme!

HEDI SLIMANE / ANTHOLOGY OF A DECADE PUBLISHED BY JRP RINGIER / OUT MARCH 1ST

And it is quintessential!