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Different voices, a shared wardrobe
From Martin Margiela to Nadège Vanhée: women’s ready-to-wear as a conversation rather than a single creative reign.
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Artists & People
A name beside a drawing can become the beginning of another journey. Explore creative work through the people connected to it: their documented choices, ideas and contributions. Follow a credit into a story, then return to the object with a little more to see. A portrait can begin with the work without pretending to tell an entire life.
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How a family business learned to change
The Hermès family story is a sequence of different responsibilities, shared work and changing ambitions, not simply a list of inherited titles.
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Time, metal and the room
How watches, jewelry, furniture and petit h reveal different ways of translating a design vocabulary.
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Creative lives
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Jean-Louis Dumas and the habit of looking
A portrait of Jean-Louis Dumas through photography, creative choices and the objects that connect them.
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Martin Margiela and clothes that follow the wearer
Casting, a deep neckline and a transformable trench reveal the practical imagination behind Margiela’s Hermès wardrobe.
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Jean Paul Gaultier and the expressive wardrobe
Gaultier’s Hermès work joins theatrical references to a precise interest in the dressed body.
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Nadège Vanhée-Cybulski and the useful detail
Pockets, fasteners and material choices offer a close view of Vanhée-Cybulski’s Hermès womenswear.
People and perspectives
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Kermit Oliver and the world beyond the scarf
A Texas painter whose Hermès designs connect wildlife, regional stories and a wider life in art.
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Hugo Grygkar and the art of arrangement
Ex-Libris and Brides de Gala reveal how Grygkar transformed collected objects into enduring compositions.
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Robert Dallet and the animal world
From animal studies to silk and conservation exhibitions, a portrait through Dallet’s documented work.
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Annie Faivre and the pleasure of looking
A hidden monkey and a collection of ceremonial textiles offer two ways into Faivre’s patterned worlds.
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Philippe Ledoux and history in miniature
Napoléon and Jockey reveal two contrasting ways Ledoux organized a story on a scarf.
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Leïla Menchari and the window as a stage
A shop window, an exhibition and the problem of preserving a temporary world.
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Rena Dumas and architecture made to be inhabited
The founder of RDAI, a collaborative building in Ginza and the relationship between an object and a room.
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Véronique Nichanian and the garment as an object
Material, perception and the small decisions that make a wardrobe more than a runway image.
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Christine Nagel and the problem of translating touch
Barénia brings leather, scent and bottle design into a conversation without making them the same thing.