Dazed Digital | Hedi Slimane's London Teenage Portfolio
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Published by Nicola Formichetti   |   Published 11 December 2008

 For the cover shoot of the January issue, Hedi Slimane shot a selection of his favourite teenagers, which he cast from the streets of London. Dazed's creative director Nicola Formichetti styled the shoot – "Hedi is inspirational to work with," said Formichetti. "The whole project was so much fun!  The shoot was four days long and we'd go out every night searching for kids to shoot the next day."

"Every model here has their own story. There were kids that we had our eyes on in the earliest stages of research, and there were kids that we approached when they were having a coffee on Brick Lane. We found people at gigs, in clubs, everywhere... For the week of the shoot, we just went anywhere we thought we would find amazing characters, and then shot them the next morning."

You can see the shoot in the January issue of Dazed & Confused, on sale December 18, which also includes stories and articles about and by teenagers from all over the country.

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  • him (11/12/2008 14:29:49)

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    more like wasted adults depressing

  • Benn-Hur (11/12/2008 17:45:45)

    London youth? A row of identical, skinny Caucasian kids glossily photographed. Wow. Talk about capturing a true cross-section of our capital.

  • Alejandra (11/12/2008 20:13:40)

    Es una opción: entender las posibilidades de futuro de acuerdo a las resonancias del presente, en los ojos de aquellos empapados de hoy y de mañana.

  • 4me4you (11/12/2008 20:56:52)

    very one dimensional..

  • casa (11/12/2008 21:03:50)

    Pretty. But boring and inaccurate.

  • CW (11/12/2008 21:24:22)

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    A London where everyone is white? Must have taken some searching to find that.

  • jac (11/12/2008 23:35:13)

    nice photographs, wheres the chavs tho hahah =] is this the cover design that won from the contest?? =s

  • hmmm (12/12/2008 01:30:19)

    not at all representative of the capital's youth. seen these types of photos before and before and bored...when is dazed gonna stop being so pretentious?

  • dipsy (12/12/2008 22:17:39)

    i agree with jac,where are our chavs ? lol slimane has become a tawdry copy of his own self

  • dan (15/12/2008 18:01:04)

    These are undeniably beauitful images but it is about time Hedi focused his eye on something other than the type of model kids we have seen him shoot time and time again.

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  • Mun Min Seung (25/12/2008 06:53:13)

    i love hedi :)

  • Haydi (30/12/2008 17:35:16)

    Whoa!!! This is the teenagers of London? It's another planet...where ARE the chavs, emos,goths etc and wheres the black kids? I'm sure I saw some of us there last time I went...

  • Tom Smith (04/01/2009 22:27:12)

    From looking at Hedi's blog.. there was one mixed race kid shot for this, but he didn't make the cut. This is embarrassing for Dazed and sadly predictable for Hedi.

  • joe (05/01/2009 18:17:29)

    is this a joke, why are all of the kids in a portfolio of london youth white?

  • p* (08/01/2009 19:37:31)

    im a fan of most of the stuff hedi slimane does...........APART FROM THIS! i saw it a few months ago.........and thought it was very weak. london is full of different teenagers and im not only talking about race here , teenagers style in london (across the uk actually) are diverse, so why do all the kids in hedi's pictures all have the same style..................

  • amauri (08/01/2009 21:12:48)

    Belo trabalho,inspirador,moderno e conciso.

  • chris lovos (09/01/2009 20:37:08)

    That's what I'm saying. One dimensional, no variety. Good model shoot but this collection does not stand out enough from his earlier work.

  • rabbit (13/01/2009 17:00:11)

    This is not representational of london, its a group of kids he found out in east, the brick lane area.They are just trendy fashionable looking youths that look more like their trying to live in an era before their time than kids showing the london style of now.

  • Alex.emerson (09/02/2009 20:32:59)

    I agree with everything everyone's already posted. Enough with the skinny white kids. There are a couple good pictures here but he's getting to be kind of a one trick pony here...these all could have been former models for his clothing line.

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    Ok, so I agree that it's not exactly representative of 'london youth', but they're still visually arresting, stunning images: even if they aren't necessarily all they claim to be...

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  • alfie (27/03/2009 14:23:53)

    such nice photos and models, one fashion style pictured (however a good one at that). I dont see any black people etc but im assuming she choose the models according to the youth portfolio she was trying to portray.

  • Danny-K (23/04/2009 13:04:03)

    Why is it that a lot of the chosen youth are actual firmed models from major modeling lines such as Models 1. This completely just portrays the youth wished culture of London, The pretentious youth which most envious youth wish to be like.

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