This is the Hedi Slimane installment of the Stern Portfolio series, known to many photobook collectors. I also collect this series, but to be honest, for every great issue, there is at least one issue with boring and superficial "high-end" photos from established photographers such as Lagerfeld. Well, meanwhile Hedi Slimane is also mainstream, but he has his own style and vision, and this issue of the Portfolio series represents it very well. People who know the series also know that there are sometimes really bad layouts, but not in this issue. You even get bigger pictures than in the overpriced "Anthology of a Decade" and the printing is very good as well. Of course this is more or less a random collection with no certain topic, there is no real development, it's not a monothematic, cohesive photobook in the Parr/Badger sense ( well of course apart from Mr. Slimane's usual topics youth & music). Furthermore, there surely won't be all your personal highlights from the the photographer's homepage (which I highly recommend), it's not possible in 100 pages. I also have the "Anthology", but even in those 700 pages I would have included different pictures, but that's another topic.
The only criticism I have is a stylistic issue: the photographer really likes to photograph people from the back, and this is amongst others one of the reasons why I became initially fascinated with him. However, what first seemed unconventional and enigmatic to me can really get a bit boring and annoying if overused.
Anyway, I highly recommend this one considering the price, the printing quality and the fact that you get bigger pictures than in the "Anthology".