After 7 years of bringing Hermes from a leather company to a respectable fashion house, Jean Paul Gaultier’s last collection for the French label will be the Spring/Summer 2011 collection. Hermes announced last Thursday that Christophe Lemaire of Lacoste will be taking over as the Artistic Director from the Fall/Winter 2011 collection onwards. It remains to be seen whether Lemaire could fill Gaultier’s shoes but I am pretty excited to see his take on Hermes, a younger, more casual Hermes maybe? Gaultier left Hermes to focus on his own label, of which 45% is owned by Hermes. Hermes’ biggest revenue generator remains its bags and accessories department although the clothes have been garnering rave reviews from the fashion and retail community.
To be fair, Gaultier’s appointment as the Artistic Director of Hermes 7 years ago raised as many eyebrows as Galliano’s appointment by Dior more than a decade ago but it ended up fruitful. Well, the least you could do is to grab all the JPG Birkin you could now. Who knows whether they will discontinue those? Fashionphile has a few pre-owned pieces in stock too, including this beauty in Vert Clemence.
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