“A ruckus of registers.” “Playful pop effervescence.” “Paradox as a line of strength.” Such sentences from Hermes’s AW24 show notes tantalise the tongue like wearing Hermès does to the skin.
How to craft the perfect menswear wardrobe? Few can answer that as well as Véronique Nichanian. This year will mark 35 years since the designer first began leading Hermès’s menswear arm, yet nostalgia doesn’t exist in her design vocabulary. Instead, she remains deeply inquisitive of what the modern man desires when constructing his own sense of style.
This season, her formalwear was sprinkled with street-centric coolness. Think pony hair skinny suits, croc boots, and drainpipe trousers that fell just perfectly above the ankle. The outerwear was particularly outstanding. Throughout, Prince of Wales check suits were casualised when paired with semi-opaque, sporty jackets, cropped pea coats and leather parkas with exaggerated, shearling collars. Just add in vivid knits, beanies and canvas bucket hats, and a chorus of ace bags – from roomy calfskin numbers to clutches equipped with utility pockets – and you’ve got a solid get-up that can dress you to just about anywhere.
Photography courtesy of Hermès.
