Hedi Slimane Officially Heads into Photographerdom October 16, 2008 3:10 pm >> Hedi Slimane has been plenty coy about his whereabouts and doings since he left Dior Homme in July 2007, but there's been one constant: his photography. Until now, he's been working for Vogue Paris, V, and such without representation, but now, confirming last month's rumors, he's been exclusively signed by IMG-owned management agency Art + Commerce.Such a move indicates that Hedi is moving full-steam ahead with his photography, leaving his designing to be a thing of the past, since Art + Commerce represents photographers, hairstylists, makeup artists, stylists, illustrators, even art directors — but not designers. Or maybe he's just doing things the Tom Ford way — leaving design on bad terms for another career, only to come back a few years later with his own successful label. Regardless, what a coup for Art + Commerce — I guess this could have been one of those options he has been so surreptitiously considering.*image: source
no, it's not an illusion April 17, 2007 12:44 pm >> ...although the dress Chanel Iman wears as part of the May Vogue models feature makes you look twice -- the way Meisel shot it, it looks 3-D at first. And then you just want to stare. Okay, I'm focused now. The editorial preview is up over at style.com, and the girls -- Lily, Hilary, Doutzen, Sasha, Caroline, Raquel, Chanel, Stam, Coco, and Agyness -- all ten of them -- are showered in bright colors. There are accompanying little tidbits of information on each -- for instance, Sasha embraces her Russian roots with her current read: War and Peace. But my favorite of it all: the fact that Vogue managed to stay true to its commercial roots even when putting models instead of celebrities on the cover -- those white shirts each girl is wearing on the cover? They're from Gap.
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