Cathy Horyn Calls Hedi Slimane Feud 'Silly Nonsense'

If Hedi Slimane's open letter to Cathy Horyn, in which he called her a "schoolyard bully" and promised she would never get a seat at a Saint Laurent show, was meant to enrage or insult the critic--well, it's not working.

Author:: Hayley Phelan
Updated:: Apr 10, 2014
Original:: Oct 3, 2012

If Hedi Slimane's open letter to Cathy Horyn, in which he called her a "schoolyard bully" and promised she would never get a seat at a Saint Laurent show, was meant to enrage or insult the critic--well, it's not working.

Speaking to WWD, Horyn said of the missive and feud: "It’s just silly nonsense to me." And on that score, we'd have to agree with her.

And while Horyn declined to comment on the hub-bub when we saw her at the Louis Vuitton show in Paris, she made it clear she felt she was just doing her job. Considering she is, after all, a fashion critic, and therefore employed to critique designers, it's hard to fault her on that note either.

Is it just us or is this "feud" starting to seem a little one sided?

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This is getting completely out of hand. If you'll recall, today Cathy Horyn dismissed Hedi Slimane's open letter to her (in which he called her a "schoolyard bully" and attacked her personal style), calling it "silly nonsense." We figured that was the end of it. We were wrong. (We should have known better.) Slimane is back at it on Twitter:

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