Hermès Fall / Winter 2015

PARIS — Although Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski was named Christophe Lemaire’s design successor at Hermès last summer the fashion world was made to wait until this season for her bow. The designer boasts an impressive CV, which includes entries at The Row and Céline, which is seen by some critics as a means to propel the luxury house in ways not dissimilar to Jean Paul Gaultier and Martin Margiela during their respective tenures. Late Monday afternoon at Caserne des Célestins - Garde Républicaine, Vanhee-Cybulski debuted her women’s Fall / Winter 2015 collection before a capacity audience seated inside the runway gallery finished in luxurious fine-grain wood. The debut lived up to the expectation and was given an excellent showing on the runway by Karolin Wolter and Agne Konciute amongst others. Where the house goes from here is anyone’s guess, but surely this is a stable platform for future growth. Credits include: Client, Hermès; Collection, Women’s Ready-To-Wear Fall / Winter 2015; Clothing design, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski; Styling, Melanie Ward; Hair, Guido Palau; Makeup, Dick Page; Production, Villa Eugénie; Casting, Maïda; Video, Damien Neva.