Hermes’ programme notes always read like a poem and it says much for the brand. Stylish and poetical, the designer Veronique Nichanian produced a typically luxuriant offering.
The colours? “White, limestone, sand, hemp, black. Eucalyptus, cumin, slate. Pumpkin.”
The fabrics? “Calfskin with waxed edges, two-tone metis lambskin … light crocodile ... Cashmere and cotton with playful diamond shapes.”
But these features are recurrent in Hermes’s menswear vocabulary.
What set this 43-piece-strong collection apart were its delicate speckled sweaters, its pointed vertical belt strap ends and its beautiful prints on sweater, trousers and cagoules that resembled fractures in a rock.
