Second-skin knits playing with transparency, light leathers and high boots evoking stockings: Hermès breathes “sportswear” into the wardrobe formerly associated with “not very frequentable” women in its collection presented on Saturday in Paris.
“It’s super important for me to address all this dress code bequeathed to women who are not very popular. Today we are changing the paradigms of what is a woman’s wardrobe, you have to take them, analyze them, work on them. “, declared to the press Nadège Vanhée-Cybulski, artistic director of the women’s collections of Hermès, behind the scenes of the parade.
The collection is assertive, with pieces borrowed from the worlds of running or dancing, such as shorts, leggings and leotards, and incorporated into that of Hermès, traditionally associated with horse riding.
Flat boots are worn with socks that go up to the shorts.
The black and white outfits pay homage to Parisian chic.
A good part of the collection is black, but the short and tight outfits are made in noble colors, such as chocolate, beige or sky blue.
The leather is transformed in an innovative way to make it “lighter and easier to wear”, underlines the designer.
The stripes are strips of leather and mesh to give more flexibility to the close-fitting silhouette.
The models tread the green sand catwalk accompanied by deafening and disturbing techno music.
“When I started this collection, we had just come out of confinement. I didn’t want to approach the silhouette in a nostalgic or retro way, but to draw the silhouette of today”, explains Nadège Vanhée-Cybulski .
“Today we are in a period and everything is more and more unstable (…) We are always moving forward into the unknown, my idea was to be anchored in the present”, she concludes.
