Designer Heidi Slimane, who last week ended working for Dior (read here if you missed it), now publishes on his webpage the reasons for his departure. He had this to say (quoting allheadlinenews.com):
The former head designer of the line said in the letter that he left the label because right now "I feel it is very important to stay true to my principles, and the idea I have of fashion."
Slimane said he first considered leaving his position at Dior Homme when his contract expired last July, but that he finally decided to decline to renew his contract now because he felt he had "no other choice."
"I had no other choice than to refuse the kind of proposition that was made and to decline a new Dior Homme contract," the letter said.
Slimane contrasted his decision with those of other designers, and rumor has it he was alluding to Marc Jacobs.
"There are areas I will not compromise with at all when it comes to my work and setting up a label under my own name. I always kept in mind the precedence of some designers I admire who were in a similar situation, and chose the other path," the letter read.
I've read the whole thing and basically says they offered him to make his own label with his own name, and he's been working on it but it haven't worked well, insinuating he wanted to make things his way and they didn't agree.
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