Grace Wales Bonner - Designer, Creative 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

 

[Lola701]

never ever searched her but was curious to refresh my memory on her stuff:
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and her taste level is very local theatre to say the least

I take this over anything Nadege.
At least she can make normal clothes. Even if she seems to have never left the 2005 Balenciaga collection she worked on…

And she did Couture! She is coming with her set of high spending customers.

Anybody but Nadege at this point!

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 !!

I mean JLD was a great man, a man of taste. His wife and Sandrine too.
Alex until now never made very surprising choices that would link him directly with his legendary uncle.

This really signal a desire to move on with a certain idea of modernity. For me the most modern person at Hermes is Pierre Hardy and I have always been frustrated since Gaultier left by his work with the menswear and womenswear teams. Now, the menswear team is entering a new chapter. Hopefully womenswear will follow suit.

 

[PDFSD]

I take this over anything Nadege.
At least she can make normal clothes. Even if she seems to have never left the 2005 Balenciaga collection she worked on…

And she did Couture! She is coming with her set of high spending customers.

Anybody but Nadege at this point!

I mean JLD was a great man, a man of taste. His wife and Sandrine too.
Alex until now never made very surprising choices that would link him directly with his legendary uncle.

This really signal a desire to move on with a certain idea of modernity. For me the most modern person at Hermes is Pierre Hardy and I have always been frustrated since Gaultier left by his work with the menswear and womenswear teams. Now, the menswear team is entering a new chapter. Hopefully womenswear will follow suit.

There are many that do couture and do tacky and crap ...this is not a quality that dealing with high spending customers makes for better design.

Objectively nadege is in this case is the better designer and has more refined taste however rigid she is.
Its miles better than the giant pearls on deconstructed tweed curtains draped on one shoulder with no sense of color or construction or let alone modernity.
The Row has more creativity then what i saw today on BJ´s website.

sure other options than Nadege sure can mean more for hermes

i am sure with Grace Wales Bonner more fluid and less over construction hand changes hermes into something more modern and less overtly commercial design and into a more real and just enough cool edge i think hermes will reconsider women's wear to follow in to something we had with Lemaire at hermes meets Margiela times to be more insinq.

right now Hermes is overtly design for design and graphic in all departments of RTW shoes homeware and even ACC.

 

[catsandchoccake]

ah yes can’t wait for Hermes tracksuits and other roadmen gear

Am I crazy or is this not a blatant microaggresion

 

[PDFSD]

Am I crazy or is this not a blatant microaggression

best to ignore :-)

 

[tourbillions]

i always liked hermes menswear and im glad they took her just for that. Could be very good

 

[fenty]

YES YES YES SI OUI !! So excited for her debut

 

[Olaffo]

I am sceptical bc I can’t see how she fits bourgeoisie aesthetic of Hermes with craftsmanship, materials development, effortless luxury and certain Frenchness it represents…I mean she is capable designer but it’s hard for me to see that at Hermes, she’d be more of a LV menswear kind of gal.

I’d love to be proven wrong so can’t wait for her debiut! Since VN is presenting her hmfinal collection at the beginning of 2026, then June show will be studio ? I guess so.