Hedi Slimane
Hedi Slimane is a FrenchTunisian photographer and fashion designer. From 2000 to 2007, he held the position of creative director for Dior Homme . From 2012 to 2016, he was the creative director for Yves Saint Laurent. He left the brand on March 31, 2016.
Slimane was born to an Italian mother and a Tunisian father in 1968 in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. At 11, he discovered photography, received his first camera and learned black and white darkroom printing. At 16, without fashion in mind, Slimane started making his own clothes. He studied Art History at the cole du Louvre and completed a tailor apprenticeship at a mens designer house. Early in his career, he visited the offices of Le Monde, as he wished to become a journalist and reporter.
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