US EditionHermes Designer Bows Out After 37 Years with Final Menswear Show in Paris
Véronique Nichanian ends 37-year tenure shaping Hermès menswear, passing leadership to Grace Wales Bonner, the first Black woman to lead a major fashion house.
- On Saturday evening in Paris, Véronique Nichanian presented her final Hermès menswear show at the Palais Brongniart, with Grace Wales Bonner named as her successor.
- Having announced her retirement in October, Nichanian said she could have stayed but wanted to fulfil a lifelong dream of living six months in Tokyo, Japan.
- Models wore silk turtlenecks with leather trousers and archival leather suits, mixing new looks with archival pieces in the Hermès menswear collection featuring a khaki crocodile-skin suit and colorful jackets.
- Walking out to close the show, Véronique Nichanian received a standing ovation from an audience including Paul Smith, Travis Scott, James McAvoy and Chace Crawford.
- Grace Wales Bonner's arrival positions Hermès for a new menswear chapter, as her appointment marks a historic shift and she inherits Nichanian's pioneering quiet luxury style.
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Positioned since 1988, the artistic director of the men's collections of the luxury brand presented her last parade on Saturday 24 January at the Brongniart Palace. Rare woman in such a position, she modernized the men's fashion without ever seeking to follow trends.
It is inevitable to see answers to the immediate moment in fashion parades: those approximately 10 minutes in which a designer seems to react to the environment with his clothes when he is actually showing the fruit of months of work. In a way, the farewell parade of Véronique Nichanian after 38 years at the head of the Hermès man collections has been cooking all that time, but there was a powerful energy that seemed to stand in front of the lea…
After 38 years at the head of the men's fashion of the luxury home, the art director presented a last easy-to-wear collection with sumptuous materials, where leather is omnipresent.
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