Hermès FW2014/15 Women Collection, Christophe Lemaire envisions the women for Hermès is remarkably consistent with the creature that populates his own collections: She's a little bit mysterious, a little bit exotic, and fiercely independent. After the show tonight, Lemaire mentioned the Russian steppes, the ancient East-West trading route known as the Silk Road, and Persian carpets as reference points. It was easy to see the carpets in his dense, rich prints, and a Mongolian horsewoman might recognize some of the designer's proportions. The coat in shaggy goat was as wild as the wind.
Lemaire has been musing on all the characters a woman could be. But it wasn't really those ethnic personae who carried the show. His notions of a strong, graceful, urban style were more persuasive.
Tipping his cap to trends lush knitwear, oversize coats but the slightly exaggerated proportions of his jackets and pants once again seemed more of a reference to Martin Margiela's tenure at Hermès, and were just as elegantly slouchy, especially in an ivory tux with an extravagant shawl collar, or a coat-dress, also in ivory, that was closed with a single button.
About that stealth wealth: Lemaire offered a tunic in paper-light chiffon crocodile, pinned at the back, casually falling open from a single closure at the back of the neck. Such ease, combined with the utter luxury of the material, defines Hermès.
In fact, with Véronique Nichanian as creative director for the men's collection and Lemaire in charge of womenswear, the company now puts forth an idiosyncratic but completely convincing statement about luxury dressing in the twenty-first century.
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