Fashion’s game of creative director musical chairs has been a whirlwind ride for a while now. Seemingly every week, there is a new announcement about a designer leaving or joining a major brand. Recently, speculation has surrounded Dries Van Noten and Givenchy, specifically. The Internet has been guessing ad nauseam who will fill the empty spots .
But Lagerfeld wasn’t the only big hitter who saw a future for Slimane at Chanel. In 2016, Christian Lacroix spoke to theabout his own visions for Slimane, who interned at Lacroix for a year. “I would like to see him either at Dior or at Chanel, if that’s possible,” Lacroix said of the young designer at the time. “I know he was quite close to Karl, and Karl is clever enough to perhaps say, one day, that Hedi might be the one and only who’s able to do it himself.