Deets: The new exhibit opened at the MOCA Pacific Design Center annex where the museum held the Black Swan x Rodarte collection last year during Oscar season.

This show has 2 levels (we highly recommend the elevator if the stairs are crowded — no one seems to know it’s in use) – upstairs are three giant slideshows of Hedi’s work on a cube in the center of the room – the first level is several enlarged portraits framed in construction planks of wood, interwoven with mirrors.

In case you don’t know – Hedi re-invented men’s fashion – after working for YSL, he joined Dior and popularized a sleeker fitting look following the baggy trends in menswear of the 90s – Since leaving fashion design, he shoots for Vogue, V, LA Times and more – HS was recently a hot topic because of a portrait he took of full grown Francis Bean Cobain (pictured below). He has also shot lots of models, celebs and L.A. people such as LiLo, Courtney Love, Kate Moss, Jack Huston, Max Irons, Henry Hopper, etc.

Spotted at the opening: Kirsten Dunst, Dasha Zhukova, PC Valmorbda, DJ Myles Hendrik, Moca’s Jeffrey Deitch, Gus Van Sant, Flaunt’s Luis Barajas, Lydia Hearst, and more with Stefanie Keenan snapping them all. Several of MOCA’s bigger donors were there on a part of weekend excursion which included a dinner at Blum and Poe tonight, brunch at Jeffrey Deitch house this weekend and of course tickets to the MOCA gala tomorrow eve …

The Hedi Slimane Exhibit runs November 11 — January 22, 2011

#fact: If you look close you will note all these books are from Gore Vidal

closer look:

Kate Moss

Linsday Lohan

Francis Bean

first floor

second floor

We’re with the band — and (the legs of) Jeffrey Deitch

gift shop

line on the way out – this opening was open to the public #interesting

Pacific design center fountain