Hedi Slimane has been the creative director of Saint Laurent since 2012, after holding this position for Dior Homme from 2000 to 2007. Slimane first had dreams of becoming a journalist, as he states in the recent interview he had with Yahoo Style: "I grew up with the intention to become a reporter." His interest for photography started when the designer was aged 11. The same year he discovered photography, he had his first camera and learned black and white darkroom printing. He started making his own clothes at 16 years old and studied Art History at l'École du Louvre. In 1996, after Pierre Bergé gave Slimane the position of ready-to-wear director of men's collections at Yves Saint Laurent , the young designer became the artistic director of the line. The Fall Winter 2000/2001 YSL collection will be the last one with Slimane as the creative director, as he moved to Berlin right after. There, he published his first book of photograph...