True fashion moments are rare. It’s been a decade since the first of them this century began, a hallowed âge d’or of menswear when scalpel-cut suits, torn jeans, and scrawny rock ‘n’ roll teens set the agenda. This was the era Hedi Slimane ruled.

Times have changed since then. And like so many other gifted designers—Helmut, Jil, Martin—the former Yves Saint Laurent and Dior Homme maestro can no longer be found at the men’s houses he built.

Slimane looks back at those years, remembering his seminal Yves Saint Laurent days, the trauma upon leaving the house, his best and worst souvenirs from Dior, his relationship with the then-fledgling—and some now-defunct—London rock bands, the influence he’s exerted on other designers, and of course, the skinny models he’s discovered on street-casting adventures.

Find the whole interview on Hint.

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