Hedi Slimane
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Hedi Slimane is a French fashion designer and photographer renowned for pioneering a skinny, rock-inspired silhouette at Dior Homme and later redefining the image of Saint Laurent and Celine.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hedi Slimane canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7402747 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hedi Slimane Context triple: [Yves Saint Laurent, influenced, Hedi Slimane]
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A.
Olivier Rousteing
Olivier Rousteing is a French fashion designer known for revitalizing Balmain with a glamorous, celebrity-driven aesthetic and strong social media presence.
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B.
Nicolas Ghesquière
Nicolas Ghesquière is a renowned French fashion designer celebrated for his innovative, avant-garde work at major luxury houses.
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C.
Demna Gvasalia
Demna Gvasalia is a Georgian fashion designer known for his avant-garde, streetwear-influenced aesthetic and for revitalizing Balenciaga as its creative director.
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D.
Raf Simons
Raf Simons is a Belgian fashion designer renowned for his influential minimalist and modernist aesthetic, who has led major luxury houses and his own eponymous label.
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E.
Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer best known as the creative director of Moschino and for his bold, pop-culture-inspired designs.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hedi Slimane Target entity description: Hedi Slimane is a French fashion designer and photographer renowned for pioneering a skinny, rock-inspired silhouette at Dior Homme and later redefining the image of Saint Laurent and Celine.
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A.
Olivier Rousteing
Olivier Rousteing is a French fashion designer known for revitalizing Balmain with a glamorous, celebrity-driven aesthetic and strong social media presence.
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B.
Nicolas Ghesquière
Nicolas Ghesquière is a renowned French fashion designer celebrated for his innovative, avant-garde work at major luxury houses.
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C.
Demna Gvasalia
Demna Gvasalia is a Georgian fashion designer known for his avant-garde, streetwear-influenced aesthetic and for revitalizing Balenciaga as its creative director.
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D.
Raf Simons
Raf Simons is a Belgian fashion designer renowned for his influential minimalist and modernist aesthetic, who has led major luxury houses and his own eponymous label.
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E.
Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott is an American fashion designer best known as the creative director of Moschino and for his bold, pop-culture-inspired designs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
creative director
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fashion designer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-07-05 ⓘ |
| employer |
Celine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dior NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Laurent NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime |
2007
ⓘ
2016 ⓘ |
| familyName | Slimane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fashion design
ⓘ
photography ⓘ |
| fullName | Hedi Slimane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Hedi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary menswear silhouettes
ⓘ
luxury fashion branding strategies ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
rock music culture
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youth subcultures ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Dior Homme menswear collections
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
creative direction at Celine ⓘ pioneering skinny silhouette in menswear ⓘ rebranding Saint Laurent ⓘ rock-inspired aesthetic ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
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French ⓘ |
| movement | minimalism in fashion ⓘ |
| nationality | French ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
attracting younger clientele to luxury houses
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overseeing Saint Laurent name and logo rebranding ⓘ popularizing ultra-slim tailoring in menswear ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Celine menswear debut collection 2019
NERFINISHED
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Dior Homme Fall/Winter 2001 collection NERFINISHED ⓘ Saint Laurent reformulated ready-to-wear line ⓘ black-and-white rock portrait photography ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Paris ⓘ |
| positionContext |
tenure at Celine
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tenure at Dior Homme ⓘ tenure at Saint Laurent ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
artistic, creative and image director of Celine
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creative director of Dior Homme ⓘ creative director of Saint Laurent Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime |
2000
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2012 ⓘ 2018 ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
emphasis on youth and androgyny
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monochrome palette ⓘ rock-and-roll references ⓘ skinny tailoring ⓘ |
| website | https://www.hedislimane.com/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Hedi Slimane Description of subject: Hedi Slimane is a French fashion designer and photographer renowned for pioneering a skinny, rock-inspired silhouette at Dior Homme and later redefining the image of Saint Laurent and Celine.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.