This is really not Cathy Horyn's fashion season. The negativity started during New York Fashion Week when Oscar de la Renta compared the New York Times critic to a "stale 3-day old hamburger" in response to her referring to him as the "hot dog" of American fashion in her review of his show. Then, Lady Gaga got involved, reigniting her year-old spat with Cathy (with a rap performance at Paris Fashion Week's Thierry Mugler show, no less). Now, it looks like Hedi Slimane has issues with Ms. Horyn. Oy, here we go...
Hedi showed his very first collection for Saint Laurent yesterday and everyone (even Valerie Trierweiler!) was there -- well, everyone except Cathy. The journalist published a blog for the Times today, claiming that she was excluded from the show because of the brand's new creative director's 5-year-old grudge:
Despite positive reviews of his early YSL and Dior collections, as well as a profile, Mr. Slimane objected bitterly to a review I wrote in 2004 — not about him but Raf Simons. Essentially I wrote that without Mr. Simons's template of slim tailoring and street casting, there would not have been a Hedi Slimane...Anyway, Mr. Slimane insisted that he was the first to show the skinny suit. It was a silly debate. Who cares? As time went on, he also felt (as best as I can tell) that I gave preference to Mr. Simons in my coverage of the men's shows. If I gave him attention, it was because his work and my reporting into the key early part of his career merited it. I haven't spoken to Mr. Slimane in five years.
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