Hermès Menswear S/S 2026 Paris

[vetements]

You all don't understand.

Hermès is outside Fashion.

(Although they have (had) fashion designers, they show during the fashion calendar and this is the fashion spot).

Hermès is offering you a portion of eternity and you don't get it, ungrateful populace.

I actually dont mind this collection nor every Hermes collection, there are always some things I like and some I dont, that`s hermes for me. The mentality is the same as when I go Loro Piana or BC, or Isaia or Lardini or any one of those Pitti Uomo lines.

But I do have a question, take away the bag-clothes-to-gain-buying rights-to-bag game, how do we objectively rate Hermes` clothing line? Not just this time but all the time?

I do buy from them from time to time but never with the objective to buy the bags since I already have some and its enough, or know I wont want enough clothes or lamps or furniture to qualify for new bags anyways so I do only select the things I want, and there are always things I want. I do sometimes feel this quota problem distracts make people judge their clothing line in a different lens.

Thoughts?

 

[Kanzai]

At best, some of Nichanian’s propositions can hold their own next to Tomas Maier’s Bottega. Circa 2010–2015, it felt like Hermès and Bottega were catering to a fairly similar male clientele. But given the comparable quality, many would go with Bottega — not just for the price advantage, but also because it offered something with more of that bourgeois-urban feel.

 

[Cocteau Stone]

It’s very LA gay’s paid/sponsored trip to Europe, mainly going from Spain to Greece with a stop over in London and Berlin coz ooooo culture (their Instagram/TikTok).

All of this is fine. A bit juvenile, no thanks to the cast. But yeah just fine.

 

[Phuel]

Her supposedly shameful, rude habit of openly belittling employees aside, Veronique’s Hermes is so much more distinctive, so much more thoughtful, so much more underrated, sophisticated in all its plainness than Nadege’s Hermes could ever hope to be. This is the strongest showing of all the men’s S/S 2026. Not because it’s so daring, so creative, so visionary; it’s none of those. It’s just so straightforwardly, so casual, so luxe and not insulting its customer with all the tryhard flexing or obnoxious, pretentious high concepts that’s going on with so many brands. And sort of hilarious that despite the cooly, icy, frosty architectural beauty of the space, seeing the audience furiously fanning themselves is that sort of visual any brand does not wish to showcase.

The cut of the ankle-length pant, with the extremely flattering pleat-design and placement in the perfect shade of summer camel, is simply sublime. And along with the lambskin bomber blouson, the cropped peacoat, and the ribbed sailor-collar sweater—hopefully all in more colorway, they’re more than I could want. No one will know it’s Hermes (except maybe for the full-cut leather pant…)— just that they'll looks good, of which this collection succeeds at as separates, because who really cares for entire collections these days, with so much excess anyway. I’m not anywhere privileges enough in this life to spend so much on clothes as so that an entire collection matters— let alone an Hermes collection. Trash the prints, the footwear, the bags, the styling, and this is good.

(Jean Claude: I don’t get the impression you’re into clownwear/dragwear/childrenswear and don’t strike me as a hypebeast either. I believe you’d be very quickly impressed with a generous selection of designs that meld beautifully into your own wardrobe and style of dressing when you see the separates in hand. Although that lonely croc vest seems so out of place in this genteel offering: Why not a jacket— with removable sleeves instead? Convertible sleeves too… edgy???)

 

[jeanclaude]

(Jean Claude: I don’t get the impression you’re into clownwear/dragwear/childrenswear and don’t strike me as a hypebeast either. I believe you’d be very quickly impressed with a generous selection of designs that meld beautifully into your own wardrobe and style of dressing when you see the separates in hand. Although that lonely croc vest seems so out of place in this genteel offering: Why not a jacket— with removable sleeves instead? Convertible sleeves too… edgy???)

Thank you...but I prefer vintage Helmut!

 

[Simera]

They really need to bring back manly men in fashion shows lmao, the casting is ruining much of the menswear collections . What is interesting in social media both women and gay men are into men with chest hair , bit of facial hair, more muscular, you need that BDE

My favorite comment I have seen here! I would lobe to see some more chest hair on the runway. Now these 17 year old teens and twinks 🤦‍♂️


Also, this is a SUMMER collection? When it barely 9 AM and already 80F/26c the last thing I want to do is put on long baggy pants and a leather jacket. I just don’t understand how this is a summer collection??

 

[Phuel]

^^^ An Hermes menswear showing is not that brand to have a beef with when it comes to betraying and dismissing its glorious male models LOOL Blame those hacks brands Dolce/Versace/Calvin Klein for that. Hermes menswear never had a strong presence— even in the days of Margiela’s and Gaultier’s greater women’s offering. The men’s was just the usual fuddy duddy businesswear that the rich wives shopping for their 20th Birkin/Kelly would be picking up for their size Euro 54 husbands. Unlike so many other brands, current-day Hermes menswear design has actually gotten way way way better instead of way way way worse LMFAO

And in the rarified world of Hermes, does season really matter? It’s actually rather very pragmatic when compared to that silly JW’s Dior men’s offering, that may as well be a full-blown A/W collection. Even IRL, there was some dude wearing his giant puffer down coat with shorts cosplaying some rapper in June.

(...Oh Jean Claude, still blissfully entombed in 1998, I see LOOOL)

 

[NYLA22]

They really need to bring back manly men in fashion shows lmao, the casting is ruining much of the menswear collections . What is interesting in social media both women and gay men are into men with chest hair , bit of facial hair, more muscular, you need that BDE

It's so true. How did men's fashion get to this point? Hedi obviously deserves a lot of blame for this kind of casting, but the desire for that look is such in the minority, I would imagine. Why would so many others emulate this? (Give me 90s Calvin models any day.)

 

[PDFSD]

I think for many years now there is a problem with the spirit or lack of behind hermes rtw both mens and womens, simply said it's to much based in design and product only, which works fine for furniture watches and jwl and acc but i feel the rtw does not tell nor convey a hermes man nor woman other than items with the quality and and designed aspect with rootes in horse riding and leather/ luxury sportswear.

It feel its on purpose, this middle road (for creed of commerce as i know there is inside constant request to offer clients something with more surprise and less the current state of offerings ), but its long term not creatively sustainable even if they cover it with whimsy of yearly theme and adv´s and fun activations .

sooner or later people that have enough hermes will want more story to behind there rtw collections to anker some sort of connection beyond its hermes so its the best mindset.

I don't find hermes RTW that classic or evergreen or out of the fashion system as some say, became this style of undefined modern designed meets classic casual is widespread since the Phoebe influence with newfound interest in the 90´s minimalism relics from Jil Sander to Calvin Klein Helmut Lang etc to cos and all these contemporary brands milking this esthetic in various ways.

i bet you top dollars or bitcoins soon there will be cracks and they will need to find a new more creatively compelling formula to motive big spenders most logic thing would be to bring back more strongly in collections storytelling that is part of past collections like pink is the navy of india etc or the argentinian cowboys that inspired the HAC etc mixed with something modern of the future.


and in that sense JWA love it or hate it is trying and i am sure Blazy at Chanel as well will as well craft quality and storytelling motto.

just my thoughts

 

[Phuel]

^^^ JW is very much the leading sign of the fashion times. I’ve quickly grown indifferent to him. His vision of the Dior man is Lena Dunham’s Girls-- for men who want to look like boys, and that’s the popular taste of the times. I understand why he’s popular, but he’s not pushing nor challenging anything creatively forward other than his own fetish for infantilizing men.

In better fashion times, Veronique’s Hermes would just be expensive but forgettable conservative staples and nothing more. But in these lesser fashion days when even Miuccia is tediously, predictably reductive, Veronique's brand of no-nonsense fashion for adult men, is a worthy contender. I don’t need a cast of classically masculine handsome men; I don’t need overtly luxurious bling to flex-- nor overtly conceptual designer signatures to prove how intellectual I am; and I don’t need a show and accompanying campaign to push any fashion fantasy worthy of the ages— because no one nowadays is making the effort— or unfortunately, more incapable, of any of that (Haider’s Tom Ford and Julien’s Dries women’s being the exceptions, but nothing so exceptional like the olden, golden days of the late-90s/mid-2000s). Don’t need the horse-and pony show by today’s standards: Just designs and produce premium clothing that actually are available at retail for the lowly customer, and not showpieces for poptarts/celebs/editorials priced at over a quarter of a million USD each, and we’re good (enough).

(If there’s any one fashion era worth sitting out on, it’s this current one. Never thought the day would come when Bruno Gehard becomes the perfect embodiment of a fashion ideal.)

 

[jeremydante]

Loved the color story. Bags just keep getting bigger and bigger; everyone is gonna have tendonitis.

 

[90sfan]

Oh god no