Grace Wales Bonner - Artistic Director of Hermès Menswear

[PDFSD]

2027? they will make her a complete induction for a year...

Chic... the Hermes way: time is luxury .

 

[Lola701]

Fantastic and actually brave from the Dumas!
But she is discreet, she shows in Paris and she is consistant. The first British designer for Hermes and actually against all my pronostics. I like to get it wrong when the result is that surprising.

Now, even more than before, having Nadege there is really odd. Can we get Bouchra Jarrar on the line!?

Finally Pierre Hardy will design shoes for a certain idea of modernity.

Grace wasn’t really groundbreaking at her own house but she will be great at Hermes. The idea of a Hermes man is grounded enough for her to do it smoothly.

 

[VogueDisciple93]

Congratulations to her! I’ve wanted her at other houses but she snagged the best!

Hats off to Dumas for this bold and exciting choice!

 

[PDFSD]

Fantastic and actually brave from the Dumas!
But she is discreet, she shows in Paris and she is consistant. The first British designer for Hermes and actually against all my pronostics. I like to get it wrong when the result is that surprising.

Now, even more than before, having Nadege there is really odd. Can we get Bouchra Jarrar on the line!?

Finally Pierre Hardy will design shoes for a certain idea of modernity.

Grace wasn’t really groundbreaking at her own house but she will be great at Hermes. The idea of a Hermes man is grounded enough for her to do it smoothly.

only thing no Bouchra Jarrar pls she is the same boring of Nadege just not so rigid but just as boring one note.
all i can remember from BJ was the same balenciaga fluid black and white drapes she was part of repeated endlessly

 

[PDFSD]

never ever searched her but was curious to refresh my memory on her stuff:
.....and draps and black and white lol

and her taste level is very local theatre to say the least

 

[helmutnotdead]

jealous is a disease b*tch. get well soon

I am so so happy for her. she’s gonna smash it

 

[Salvatore]

I am so very happy for her ! As a customer, this news excites me as maybe we are getting some fresh things. So excited.

 

[PDFSD]

puck news​

Axel’s Rose​

Scenes from the opening of Hermès’s new Nashville store, where the ill-timed retirement announcement of its longtime menswear head only underscored the steady hand of the brand’s sixth-generation heir and executive chairman, Axel Dumas.

Elsewhere at the store, clients were mixing with Dumas and other Hermès executives, as well as the starry locals that make up the Nashville expat scene. Photo: Chelsea Lauren/WWD/Penske Media/Getty Images

October 20, 2025
About an hour before Hermès welcomed guests to its new store in Nashville, news broke in Paris that the brand’s menswear designer of 37 years, Véronique Nichanian, was retiring. I’m sure the comms team wished that Le Figaro, with whom Nichanian spoke exclusively, would have waited a few hours to publish, but there were very few people in Nashville who realized anything had happened. At the event, I nudged Axel Dumas, the brand’s sixth-generation heir and executive chairman, about the news while standing near the glassed-off handbag wall—each style, from a canvas Togo to a crocodile Kelly, shaded in with the proprietary color Rouge H. He politely changed the subject.
At pretty much any other luxury house, the exit of the designer would be an earthquake.

But Hermès has undoubtedly been succession planning for two or three years: When the company moved its headquarters a few years back, Nichanian’s team stayed in the old offices—a clear indication that she wanted to keep her routine for her last few years working. At 71, she could have surely gone longer. Her collections are still closely watched by menswear insiders, and Hermès is already a model for other luxury houses: The big idea doesn’t come from one designer’s vision, so there’s no need to engage in rapid turnover and succumb to key-person risk issues. In the end, she held her post for 37 years, one more than Lagerfeld spent at Chanel.

Hermès is expected to announce her successor on Tuesday. The first candidate to pop into my texts was Grace Wales Bonner, the 35-year-old Brit whose name surfaces any time there’s a big menswear job up for grabs. It’s an interesting idea, given her quiet confidence and design sensibility.

But I also wouldn’t be surprised if it were an unknown in the vein of the company’s womenswear designer, Nadège Vanhee, who worked behind the scenes for years before replacing Christophe Lemaire in 2014. Vanhee was a designer for hire—no namesake label to manage, or wind down—who was given the time and space to develop her practice because of Hermès’s reliance on hero products, historic brand codes, and managed pricing.
The collections are a commercial and editorial success, and like Nichanian, Vanhee may be headed toward a 30-plus-year career at the company.

 

[yslforever]

Hm… I hope she will not make it too weird

It’s already very grandpa. And Hermes menswear can have the quirkiness of the rest of their brand.

 

[yslforever]

Fantastic and actually brave from the Dumas!
But she is discreet, she shows in Paris and she is consistant. The first British designer for Hermes and actually against all my pronostics. I like to get it wrong when the result is that surprising.

Now, even more than before, having Nadege there is really odd. Can we get Bouchra Jarrar on the line!?

Finally Pierre Hardy will design shoes for a certain idea of modernity.

Grace wasn’t really groundbreaking at her own house but she will be great at Hermes. The idea of a Hermes man is grounded enough for her to do it smoothly.

Not brave 😂
They love to surprise , see Margiela and Gaultier, they favor ethics - people 100% in clothes making and respectful of but challenging the craftsmanship.
Hermes I m finally coming !!

 

[90sfan]

Ahhhh finally a great decision by the bosses!
Its obvious the other bosses are already regretting hiring jw anderson AND blazy just as much.
Or they will soon… Blazy’s momsy version for Chanel is laughable. Jw anderson - no comment for that clown of a colection