{"id":3001,"date":"2026-06-05T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/06\/05\/hermes-in-the-hills-the-french-luxury-giant-goes-hollywood\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T22:32:00","slug":"hermes-in-the-hills-the-french-luxury-giant-goes-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/06\/05\/hermes-in-the-hills-the-french-luxury-giant-goes-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Herm\u00e8s in the Hills. The French Luxury Giant Goes Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tFirst, there was the ascent. Individual black SUVs collected guests and delivered them 900 winding feet above sea level into the Santa Monica Mountains, to a canyon-vista hilltop beside the Getty Museum. The setting \u2014 classical columns, grand scale \u2014 looked vaguely like the Parthenon. Large letters announced the show\u2019s title: \u201cSilhouettes on the Horizon.\u201d Inside, artistic director Nad\u00e8ge Vanh\u00e9e was about to unveil her Women Fall-Winter 2026 Second Chapter (the first having debuted in Paris back in March).<\/p>\n

\tOutside those towering columns, the crowd itself was a fashion show. This wasn\u2019t L.A.\u2019s usual front-row set: these were young, Herm\u00e8s-devoted female customers, decked out in the brand\u2019s signature silk scarf-print coats, perforated leather dresses, leather shorts with matching jackets, and Herm\u00e8s riding boots paired with everything. And a literal wealth of Kelly bags. Birkins, apparently, have been banished to the back of the closet. Mini Kellys, in every size and color, wrapped with classic Herm\u00e8s scarves \u2014 some barely big enough for a lipstick \u2014 were out in droves. Several guests had mini Kelly charms dangling from their mini Kellys: Kelly \u00e0 deux. A big-money crowd with a low-key attitude. \t<\/p>\n

\tBritish, French and New York editors mingled with Hollywood stylists \u2014 Jeanne Yang among them \u2014 while a handful of celebrities (a rare sighting for Herm\u00e8s, which almost never dresses them) joined the pre-show scene: Kerry Washington<\/a>, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Miley Cyrus<\/a>, Natasha Lyonne<\/a> and Keke Palmer (in a red bra top with matching jeans), the whole group cornered by none other than Hollywood reality-show elder stateswoman Kathy Hilton. Lyonne, bopping around in a leather corset and jeans, laughed: \u201cI never dressed like this in New York back in the day!\u201d Miley made Herm\u00e8s pure Miley in a sleeveless leather mini and heeled high boots, flanked by fianc\u00e9 Maxx Morando, drummer for Liily \u2014 pure punk rock. \t<\/p>\n

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\t \t\t\t\t\tNatasha Lyonne attends The Second Chapter of Herm\u00e8s Women\u2019s Ready-to-Wear Fall-Winter 2026 fashion show at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles on June 4.<\/span> \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPatrick T. Fallon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/cite> \t\t\t\t\t \t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\tWhen the show began, planned golden-hour light enhanced Herm\u00e8s\u2019 signature luxe fabrics: soft leathers, suedes, silks and chiffon, every look head-to-toe monochrome \u2014 black, brown, poppy red, and the shock of very California colors, buttery yellow and aqua blue. A strapless yellow dress with an egg-shaped skirt, matched with suede riding boots? It sounds unlikely. It looked incredible. Supermodel Karen Elson, the redhead who has been absent from runways for years, wore a version in fire red. Black leather harnesses as bra tops, paired with long flowing sheer chiffon skirts and boots, pushed a posh-punk vibe.<\/p>\n

\tIn her program notes, Vanh\u00e9e described the tough-tender combination as \u201cthe interplay of tension and release\u201d \u2014 extending Herm\u00e8s\u2019 savoir faire beyond its leather-and-silk heritage into\u00a0flou<\/em>\u00a0(fashion-speak for flowy). There were chic leather suits, fitted leather jackets with midi skirts, leather shorts, and plenty of dancer-inspired looks. But styled with simple hair and makeup, these clothes would be as appropriate on L.A. club-kid influencers as on Park Avenue matrons. Highbrow Topanga Canyon hippie seemed as much an inspiration as French chic.<\/p>\n

\tFor her post-runway<\/a> walk, Vanh\u00e9e didn\u2019t retreat quickly the way a tepid Jonathan Anderson did a few weeks ago at Dior. Her curly red hair bouncing, she jogged the entire length of the winding runway, defying the tradition of Euro-hauteur designer retreats. \t<\/p>\n

\tThen the crowd descended, and found itself in a far more familiar Los Angeles scenario: SUVs trying to crawl back down the hill blocked the narrow roads, turning what should have been a smooth exit into a grumpy, hour-long wait \u2014 two hours for some. You expect gridlock after the Golden Globes, not after a Herm\u00e8s spectacle.<\/p>\n

\tOh, well. It only added to the feeling that Herm\u00e8s is getting more comfortable with the Left Coast \u2014 and that Hollywood is embracing the brand\u2019s suddenly edgy new vibe. If you spot flat riding boots paired with leather shorts at this summer\u2019s cocktail parties, at the Hollywood Bowl, or on Taylor Swift, just don\u2019t be surprised.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, there was the ascent. Individual black SUVs collected guests and delivered them 900 winding feet above sea level into the Santa Monica Mountains, to a canyon-vista hilltop beside the Getty Museum. The setting \u2014 classical columns, grand scale \u2014 looked vaguely like the Parthenon. Large letters announced the show\u2019s title: \u201cSilhouettes on the Horizon.\u201d Inside, artistic director Nad\u00e8ge Vanh\u00e9e was about to unveil her Women Fall-Winter 2026 Second Chapter (the first having debuted in Paris back in March). Outside those towering columns, the crowd itself was a fashion show. This wasn\u2019t L.A.\u2019s usual front-row set: these were young, Herm\u00e8s-devoted female customers, decked out in the brand\u2019s signature silk scarf-print […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1785,2,1786,255,1394,1787,1788,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hermes","category-hollywood","category-kerry-washington","category-lifestyle","category-miley-cyrus","category-natasha-lyonne","category-runway","category-style"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}