Hedi Slimane : Cover Star: LES INROCKUPTIBLES:

Was it Karl Lagerfeld who said, "These days you don't have to be a rock star to be a rock star" ? Until the day the first Hedi Slimane store sees the light of day, a very good job has been done in keep the brand fires burning.

Dior Homme SS 09 Image courtesy of frillr.com

TI received this email from a reader this morning concerning the last Dior Homme show. I loved the honesty of the viewpoint and I'd like to invite more readers to share their perspective here. This is what TI member RB had to say:

Givenchy !Top choice on TI's SS09 shopping list!

Leather leggings and leather shorts with a sober tuxedo jacket and white shirt. Where was that outfit when I went dancing at Mr Black's last Saturday ? Maybe if I had a better imagination when it came to clothes I would have thought up that one. But I don't (have an audacious imagination when it comes to clothes). Which is what makes designers, strong designers with a resolved point of view necessary.

Party hearty for Rock Diary

Expect all the kids to be out in full force.

Hedi Slimane: Rock Diary: JRP Ringier

Hedi Slimane books tend to escalate really fast in value (a " Berlin" currently starts at $2, 475.00 on Amazon ) which means TI will be standing on line for a first run copy of "Rock Diary"!

Image via hedislimane/diary.com

TI would like to set the record straight regarding a story we ran a week ago about Tsunemitsu Chiba, a purported in house web designer for Hedi Slimane. It turns out Mr Chiba's claim is a complete fabrication. Mr Slimane's press office released the following statement on Friday :

HEDI SLIMANE DESIGNS HIS WEBSITES AND DIARY ON HIS OWN, WITH HIS COMPUTER ENGINEER IN PARIS AT HEDI SLIMANE'S OFFICE.

HE ALSO TOTALLY DESIGNED, WITH HIS TECH IN NY, THE DIOR HOMME WEBSITE FROM
2000 TO 2007.

ANYTHING ELSE IS PURE CONTERFEIT.

KIND REGARDS
THE PRESS OFFICE
HEDI SLIMANE

We apologize for the misinformation but we're equally excited to know the very influential design style of hedislimane.com can be directly attributed to Mr Slimane. Consistency of line is everything, no?

Kate Moss: Vogue Paris April 08:Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin ,Josh Beech: Hedi Slimane for VHI via thefashionspot

Well that's two in a row for Carine Roitfeld both in the sense of her dual management of Vogue Paris and Vogues Hommes International and the fact that the second VHI under her watch has turned out to be a sizzler. Today's challenge is to be succinct so here's TI's bullet points as to why both Vogue Paris and VHI are run-to-the-newstand brilliant.

Kinga: IMG: Rick Owens: Fall/Winter 2008 via style.com

When designers reference heavy duty artists the results can sometimes be...well..gauche. Take the waltz for SS 08 between Richard Prince and Louis Vuitton. It was very clever and layered in the shrewdness thereof. It was visually witty, commercially astute, beautifully image managed but also it was literal. Richard Prince's nurses begat Louis Vuitton nurses. Prince's babe on a hot rod...translated to LV's supermodels on a hot rod. Literal is not always a bad thing but it does lessen the possibilities of prolonged looking.

KATE MOSS IN Libération PH: HEDI SLIMANE via hedislimane.com

The world keeps asking, "What's up with Hedi Slimane and his inevitable clothing line?"

Navigate Navigate: These New Puritans : Hedi Slimane Swan Song

We'll forever associate "Navigate Navigate" with the dying embers of the Dior Homme FW 07 show, as that
last Hedi approved Dior boy wound his way into memory and myth. But as these recent remixes of this track proves, These New Puritans are more than just a runway show fetish . They are actually a razor sharp combo cutting some of the cleanest, leanest guitar riffs around. More please!

The collector's item invite