Available now at Colette Paris, Hedi Slimane’s book "Rock Diary" in a collector’s box set. "This beautifully designed three volume-boxed set presents new photographic work by Hedi Slimane, the iconic fashion designer who, during tenures at Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior, has infused men’s fashion with an androgynous, rock n’ roll swerve…The first volume is an album of Slimane’s photographs of the Lollapalooza-esque three-day Festival Internacional de Benicássim on the East coast of Spain, the second is devoted to images of the new British and American rock scenes and the third contains essays on Slimane’s work by art critic Vince Aletti and music critic Jon Savage."

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With all the talk floating in regards to Hedi Slimane’s return to the LVMH family, as well as with his talks with Diesel’s chairman Bernard Arnault, it should come as no surprise that eventually something solid would output. It is now looking more and more like the  outcome will initially be a Red Collection designed by Slimane for Diesel. As WWD reports, “a collaboration with Slimane would fit in with Rosso’s modus operandi. This year, Rosso launched the Diesel Black Gold collection to provide a more sophisticated option for his customer.”

More to come on this matter…

We have always been big fans of designer Hedi Slimane. He made Dior Homme what it became famous for, and we also always enjoyed his photo art and recent adventures into furniture.

In case you did not know, he has a personal blog, no words, just pictures! Check it out here.

Here we start a new series of links that we come across that we find interesting. We are not sure how regular this will come, but expect it a couple of times per week, just to keep you on top of what is going on!

Apparently Hedi Slimane is talking to LVMH about launching a label under his own name. Even though we are still big Dior Homme fans, we cannot wait to see what he has up his sleeves. More here…

True Religion opens another flagship store in Manhattan. How long will the denim craze last? True Religion was one of the early ones to enter this market, let’s see how far the growth will go. More here…

Nike Sales rose this past year, mainly due to overseas growth. The sportswear giant has quietly entered some untraditional sports markets, at least for them. Soccer, action sports, skateboarding, etc. The fashion sneaker game has also been very successful in past year, mainly due to re-releases of classics, but we suspect that that will not be enough anymore next year. More here…

Notcot put out without a doubt one of the most interesting Holiday gift guides this year. Holiday shopping is almost over, but we don’t really care, because we like shopping all year around. Check it out here…

Burton has recently opened their largest flagship store to date, and who would have suspected that it would be in Los Angeles. HighSnobiety has two interesting interviews up with Hiroshi Fujiwara (Japanese style icon and Burton adviser) as well as with the Creative Director of Burton, Greg Dacyshyn.

This should keep you busy for a while!