"Legacy" is a loaded word in the fashion industry. Baton-passing inevitably leaves the newcomer trying to balance firmly established loyalties and expectations with his or her own ethos. The death or retirement of the marquee name makes things a little easier, but Hedi Slimane is far from dead or retired in the conventional sense. He was the elephant in the elegant rooms of the nineteenth-century mansion on Avenue Foch, where Kris Van Assche showed his debut collection for Dior Homme. Slimane made the label a byword for a look as impactfully new in its own way as Christian's 1947 original.
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