For its SS/23 collection Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski, the creative director of womenswear at the Hermès sought inspiration from a desert rave and produced a collection considered ‘luxurious practicality’.
A sand dune in the middle of Paris is an exciting concept – proof that Hermès continues to alter perceptions – with a dune hike leading to the rave. We’ve all been there, right? “It was time to go out and release, let go, and celebrate togetherness and freedom, beyond space and time, and just…tripping!” Cybulski said.
The collection is inspired by the changing patterns of vacation since the pandemic. After being locked into their homes, people sought the wild, the desert, and Hermès has changed its focus to the current notions of luxury travel. Wilderness retreats and outdoor escapes are preferred to city holidays.
Tanned leather jumpsuits opened the collection, while windbreakers, crafted in the same colour scheme nodded to the desert, bringing about the lightness that Cybulski sought. The collection is created from a colour scheme of brown and sandy beige with hints of pink that represent the morning hues found in deserts.
While most footwear probably wouldn’t work in the desert, the looks from the collection were all worn with gladiator-style sandals, elevated by an open platform giving the illusion that the models were levitating.
Finally, the Hermès leather goods are always worth waiting for. And with trench coats, utilitarian style vests and dresses all created using leather discs, SS/23 really didn’t let us down.
