Music is integral to Saint Laurent. Since Hedi Slimane’s appointment in 2012, the house has embraced musicians as campaign stars, models, and muses. BB King, Chuck Berry, Joni Mitchell, Marianne Faithfull, Daft Punk, Kim Gordon, and Courtney Love have all posed for the house’s Music Project campaigns, though Slimane is as focused on up-and-coming acts as he is on global superstars. Tonight’s menswear and Pre-Fall concert-cum-runway show at the Palladium in Los Angeles promises performances from a number of California-native bands, including Dylan Lee, the teenage son of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee, who is so fresh to the scene, he doesn’t have a song—save the one he created for Saint Laurent—out yet.
Among the groups loved by Slimane, there’s a marked constant: an artfully disheveled nonchalance and a sound that veers into post-punk psychedelia. Find 15 of his most referenced bands here, and update your Spotify playlist accordingly.
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