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Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

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Hedi Slimane
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: July 5
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Fashion Designer
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