";s:4:"text";s:4200:" I arrived in California in 2008, and was already very attracted to Los Angeles, which I have frequently visited since the end of the 1990s. Especially those you have chosen to document in this issue of Vogue Italia? From Elsworth Kelly, to Brice Marden, Chris Burden, to the underrated French minimal artist Francois Morrelet… and a hundred of other legendary or emerging artists over two decades. Later on with my life, I experimented with different creative cycles, and got involved with emerging sounds and communities in music. The city has changed today. He is originally from Georgia, and always had a strong connection with Southern California psych rock scene, The Growlers and so on. From 2002, I spent most of my time in London, surrounded by a group of English musicians that were playing all around the east side of town. Musically and currently from Zac Carper the charismatic singer of Fidlar, a skate cult band, to Yann Pessino, this is an alternative background that endlessly define the conventions of youth cultures in California and influence youth all over the world. This recurrent millennial term, used like a business school lesson, described with statistics and numbers, is boring. I presume I see it as a sacred and scintillating ritual they all perform every second of their lives. I also defend a French fashion mindset that is almost formal and is linked to my youth, to what I was taught, to the people I have met — Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé, when I first started in my years at Dior. The industry was mostly comfortable with a dominant conservative idea of masculinity, an echo of 90’s supermodels.
Slimane : Il faut rester soi-même et cultiver sa différence. I see them as artists. I decided to shift to California in 2007, at the tail of English rock and guitar bands period. I was nonetheless convinced of the growing influence California would have in popular culture, music, and art, and for obvious reasons even more so with the rise of social medias. I always looked at my own youth with a distance. LF: Your aesthetic has often been characterised as being androgynous, or, more precisely, as ambisexual. Since moving there in 2007 the Parisian photographer and sometime creative director has become deeply embedded in the city’s creative subcultures. I have always interpreted the idea of masculinity as being embodied in other ways than through the body, the muscles, the commonplaces of virility. Regione Puglia @ Photo Vogue Festival 2018, by