Paris last week was rife with gossip over whether the menswear world's leading light, Hedi Slimane, was about to exit hyper-cool brand Dior Homme when his contract expires at the end of the month.
To stay, the Frenchman was reportedly demanding an annual fee of $2.5 million -- as well as full rights to his own brand name.
But with the launch of his own fashion house apparently on the cards, and the names of successors already on the lips of those in the know, tensions were running high as the fashion world's glitterati gathered on the last day of the Menswear Collections for what might be Slimane's last tour de force for Dior Homme.