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highlikefashion:

the september issues: china, UK, australia, italia, japan, korea, paris, turkey, russia, US

Which is your fave?

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Australia, Italia, US and Paris.

Michael Pitt | by Hedi Slimane

Hedi Slimane for Prestige

➙ You revolutionised menswear at Dior Homme. How did you experience that period in your life?

It was a very creative time. I was extremely committed to my time. I was surrounded by all the creative and emerging talents of the decade. I dressed them, collaborated with them and photographed them. I ended up designing the wardrobe of a generation and pushed a certain idea of men’s fashion, music related to fashion, the allure of this decade. I had no idea about the outcome. It was not about the outcome, but the energy of the moment. It was just my everyday life, my friends that ended up defining this style.

➙ How do you think technology has influenced fashion? What are the pros and cons?

Fashion was reluctant at first to embrace the Internet, and it’s still not totally a natural marriage. With that said, blogs and social networking have considerably enhanced the power of fashion and changed its purpose. Fashion became entertainment, just like Hollywood is entertainment. Fashion is finally a global consideration and, of course, a global fashion business at last.

➙ Do you think websites will eventually replace print magazines?

They already do, I believe, but magazines have to understand that they become the real place for some sort of creative quality, in photography, graphic design and content. Glossy magazines need to become glossier, rarer, more exclusive and create that real sense of exception to exist next to the immediacy and globalisation of the fashion www.

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This and many more of Viviene Tang’s expansive Prestige interview of the man who re-shaped menswear, here.