HERMÈS MEN | SPRING-SUMMER 2022

Men’s Ready-To-Wear Collection Runway Show “It’s a new attitude, and it’s interesting.” When she said this, Véronique Nichanian was discussing one specific micro-styling detail (dark socks peeking over goatskin boots under elongated Bermudas). However, her Zoom-delivered preview comment applied just as well to the entirety of this exceptional Hermès menswear collection. It was shown this afternoon in the house’s first return to the Auguste Perret-designed stone courtyard of the Mobilier National since June 22, 2019 (the date of its last normal-times spring show). Also making a return was the gifted theater director Cyril Teste, for his third film/défilé collaboration with Nichanian in a row. As last season, Teste’s screen-displayed lingering zooms and smooth pans allowed those watching from afar—me included—to partly reproduce the real life show experience I described then as when “your eyes travel back and forth to create a jagged and episodic narrative of perception