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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Hermes - Autumn/Winter 2013-14

WE found ourselves lounging around in the world of Hermes this evening - a library setting the studious backdrop for Christophe Lemaire's autumn/winter 2013-14 collection, one full of masculine elegance.



It was beautiful and controlled and put capes and blanket-coats top of next season's agenda to provide enough of that intrepid traveller reference in a city-based modern world. There were wraparound skirts of khaki and tan and pristine white shirts hidden beneath tuxedo jackets or capes that sat across the body and which buckled at the shoulder. Shaggy jackets were bohemian in the well-travelled sense and not over the top - nothing here was over the top, it was luxe, elegant and refined with a serenity to it all. Lemaire, five seasons in having replaced Jean Paul Gaultier, is seriously in his stride.

In grey and tan, black and bottle green, the colour palette was grown-up and earthly. High collars were completed with hair tucked in and tomboys were given a new sophistication - cropped tuxedo jackets worn with small-heeled boots to straight-leg trousers.
There were scarf sleeves and robe dresses - that louche lounge appeal working its magic. And jackets were expressly to be worn perched on the shoulders - nonchalance personified.
This was the type of lounging one could really get used to. 
Source: vogue.co.uk

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