Hedi Slimane, who since 2018 has been the creative, artistic, and image director of Celine, is a bit like the Boris Karloff-meets-Greta Garbo of greater Los Angeles. Once in a while, an online fashion forum might light up with rumors that he was spotted browsing vintage T-shirts at the Rose Bowl Flea Market, or guests at an art world dinner party will obsess over an alleged visit to Frieze Los Angeles. The only real clue as to what Slimane is up to? Hedi Slimane Diary, the compendium of portraiture he’s maintained on his website for over a decade. The Diary has the kind of cult following more typical of a zine or a mixtape, showing moody kids with rough around the edge features, with occasional appearances by the likes of Debbie Harry. (For this one-time Tumblr teen, shredding and pinning her thrift store t-shirts in the mall tundra that is suburbia, it was the Bible.)
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