Hermès

Scene-stealing runway sets from the S/S 2019 menswear shows

Hermès launches a pop-up café at its London flagship

Over 3000 ping-pong balls on acrylic stalks sway in the summer breeze, like space-age poppies on an alien planet. White bistro tables and stools are dotted between these spherical blooms, while the Cellar Society’s finest waiters flit to-and-fro between the...

Stairways to retail heaven: the best treads in-store

In luxury boutiques around the world, staircase design is seriously on the up. Staircases constructed from intricate jigsaw pieces of marble, graphic folds of burnished metal, or spiralling organic forms, are enticing customers to venture into the upper echelons of a store. Here...

Hermès at Paris Fashion Week Men’s S/S 2019

Mood board: Pure colours with muted overtones. The silhouette was uncomplicated with no dramatic flourishes in shapes or fabrics; after all, you don’t come here for bombast. Véronique Nichanian merged rich textiles with elegant colours. High above the courtyard catwalk space...

Fashion brands leave their sartorial mark on Salone del Mobile 2018

There was a time when fashion brands would host cocktail parties at Salone del Mobile — create a window display, perhaps — and call it a day, but those days are long gone. ‘It feels like every fashion brand has finally woken...

Hermès launches a trio of Miguel Castro Leñero’s animal-printed blankets at Salone del Mobile

‘Miguel Castro Leñero is one of the most important artists working in Mexico today,’ says Alexis Fabry, deputy artistic director of Hermès’ home universe, who first discovered the work of the Mexico City-based painter in the early 1990s. Castro...

Scents with benefits: smell your way to a sharper, calmer, happier you

Perfume fans have always known that scent can make you feel good, but can it help you concentrate? That’s the thinking behind the writer from new brand St Giles. It uses rosemary as a key ingredient, inspired by a clinical...

Scene-stealing runway sets from the A/W 2018 womenswear shows

Paris Fashion Week A/W 2018 editor’s picks

Hermès A/W 2018

Scene setting: One thing we love about the Paris shows is the way they consistently make us discover new and unexpected places. Last night was no exception, as Hermès’ rendez-vous took place in the Lycée-collège Victor-Duruy, an architectural treasure of a high...

5 new fragrances from Hermès are all about the base notes

So-called boutique perfume ranges are coming to have a bad name, as too many ‘luxury’ brands have jumped on what can be a very lucrative bandwagon, having realised that consumers can be persuaded to pay twice as much for what...

Tony Chambers on why ‘less but better’ is the future for retail and design

We hear more and more that the younger generations are less interested in purchasing and owning things. They prefer to spend their money on experiences. Self-improving holidays, culture, live performances, eating out, eating in, yoga retreats, hiking Machu Picchu. While...