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A workshop in a horse-drawn city
Thierry Hermès began with harnesses in 1837. The first chapter belongs to working leather, a changing Paris and the move to Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
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History
Start with a moment, then follow what changes. Read the history in chapters, with room for the people, choices and changing ways of life behind the objects. Dates give the journey its shape; the stories give you a reason to keep going. Choose a period or begin with the question that brought you here.
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Objects for a world on the move
Bags, fasteners, golf clothes and beachwear reveal how Hermès widened its purpose during the first decades of the twentieth century.
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1937 to 1984 From leather goods to a world of métiers
Silk, perfume, jewelry and clothing broadened Hermès without making its leather heritage disappear.
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1984 to 2000 Jean Louis Dumas and a wider design culture
The Birkin, annual themes, new workshops and Martin Margiela reveal different sides of Hermès under Jean-Louis Dumas.
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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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The many lives of 24 Faubourg
A workshop address became a shop, a stage and a source of images and fragrances. Its history is richer than a façade alone.
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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.