Was Slimane's show a swan song?

Paris

IT didn't feel like a wake - although it was, essentially, one long paean to the past. In fact, Hedi Slimane's maybe-possibly-but-no-one-knows-could-be last show for Saint Laurent resembled nothing so much as historically accurate immersive theatre: a 1980s Helmut Newton photograph come to life.

What it did not resemble was the Saint Laurent ready-to-wear collections that Slimane had done before. There were no sound and light shows, no teenage haute guttersnipes, no thumbing his nose at the rules.