"KLAUS: Who got you started in fashion? HEDI: Actually, Jean Jacques Picart pushed me. KLAUS: How did he know you would be a great designer? HEDI: It’s not for me to say. I was twenty-three, and I was a little bit lost, doing things like street casting, anything. I was all over the map. He’s been involved with fashion for so many years. He did the same with Christian Lacroix — he started Lacroix. KLAUS: He just had the instinct? HEDI: Some people care about you, and are really able to see you, and other people will never see you, even if you’re standing in front of them and waving. It’s like I said about ambition — who you meet next is so important. That’s how ideas get translated into a project. What makes it wonderful is that you never know what will happen next."
- Hedi Slimane Interview
