Hermès: Changing of the desert guard — vogue.it

As the sun rose in all its golden glory on the desert sand that was the Hermès runway, the same fiery ball set on four weeks in four separate cities of the international collections for Spring/Summer 2015. It was also the end of tenure of designer Christophe Lemaire, who left Hermès on a high note with a graceful, even noble, collection. The desert – with its sun-bleached colours, brightening to yellow and orange or darkening to mustard, rust and ultimately black – seemed to suit the designer. He put his energy into changing surfaces, such as a basket-weave jacket or a rippled cotton dress, adding just a touch of pattern either as a tracery of ajourée stitching or as a sudden display of digital-print tribal art.

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