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Article: SLIMANE OPENS UP ABOUT DIOR.(Hedi Slimane)
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- WWD
- Article date:
- April 3, 2007
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Byline: Miles Socha
PARIS - Breaking his silence about splitting from Dior Homme, designer Hedi Slimane said he walked away freely, unwilling to compromise his principles "and the idea I have about fashion."
In fact, Slimane said he first contemplated leaving the plum men's wear post in July, when his contract expired and talks ensued about launching a Dior-backed Hedi Slimane fashion house.
"I tried to make things work for about a year," Slimane wrote in a lengthy text posted on his Web site, hedislimane.com, over the weekend, days after Dior announced he would be replaced by Kris Van Assche. "I always kept in mind the precedence of some ...