Saint Laurent
Designer Hedi Slimane

• “Monday’s show at Paris’s Grand Palais, which his supporters hope will allow him to see off his critics, predominantly featured short hemlines and hotpants worn with sheer black tights and flat boots.” [AFP]
• “A head-scratcher.” [All The Rage/Los Angeles Times]
• “Slimane was trying intentionally to provoke–and his message of rebellion was loud and clear.” [AP]
• “Quelle surprise! The motto vibrating from Hedi Slimane’s runway at the Grand Palais today was ‘go grunge or go home’ as the designer tapped into the gritty, alterna-rock movement popularized by Cobain and co.” [Daily Front Row]
• “No homage. No reverence. It was Grunge.” [ELLEuk.com]
• “Hedi Slimane has not forgotten how to shock the fashion world, after all.” [The Guardian]
• “It looked strong and smelt like teen spirit but how does all of the above tally with this great French status name?” [Grazia Daily]
• “Suffice it to say, the collection shown Monday night by Hedi Slimane, his second women’s ready-to-wear since taking over the house of Yves Saint Laurent label (which he renamed Saint Laurent after establishing his design studio in Los Angeles, rather than Paris), will be as divisive as his first.” [On The Runway/The New York Times]
• “Call it Seattle by way of Saint-Germain.” [POPSUGAR Fashion]
• “The legacy today was grunge, not YSL; the longing was his own ardent attachment to a scene that was a continent and an ocean away from a kid in Paris at the beginning of the nineties.” [Style.com]
• “It was certainly a bravura exercise in styling (although not as potent as the same theme seemed when Slimane explored it for his fall menswear, shown in January)—but one longed for a few more design twists on the Yves borrowings.” [Vogue.com]
• “Hedi Slimane has a particular kind of girl in mind … she’s LA effortless and belongs at Coachella all year round.” [Vogue.com UK]
• “What is Hedi Slimane’s mandate at Saint Laurent? Without a clear understanding of purpose, it’s difficult to review his fall collection in a lucid way.” [WWD]