This is the first collection designed by Christophe Lemaire for Hermès bags in Paris featuring autumn-winter 2011-12 line showing that the designer who comes from Lacoste is already perfectly in tune with the style of the house, forget about polo and sports clothing. The compatibility of the designer’s vision with that of the house Hermès is expressed in the breath that the collection shows.
Oriental features, the inevitable sense of travel, influences from China between kimono sleeves and long kaftans, the colors of the desert tribes and dynasties of imperial red, orange, jade green. The details are carried to the extreme: obi belts, quilt work, enamel bracelets, pendants undeniable oriental taste.
The lines between male and female merge the concept of eliminating borders between genres. The elegance does not belong to men or to women, but through the ages, styles and even the sexes, even at the cost of submitting to a certain severity of models.