The FiFi Report 088

The Christmas List:
London; Birth of a Cult by Hedi Slimane
Dior Homme fashion designer Hedi Slimane, whose first two books of photography depicted desolate Berlin parks, tangles of speaker cable and grimy stairwells, has tackled a much more complex, slippery and alive subject for his third: Pete Doherty. In fact, Slimane got so accustomed to the train-wreck antics of the 25-year-old rock deity — anointed “Junkie Pete” by London’s tabloids — that he simply shrugged when asked about all the canceled gigs and the controversy forever swirling around the Babyshambles frontman, from his arrests and rehab to his romantic links to model Kate Moss. Slimane collaborated with Doherty for two years on his stage costumes and in that time has built up an extensive photographic archive of the musician for this book. WWD
£15.00 Publisher: Steidl (July 2005) http://www.amazon.co.uk