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Hermes: The Chicest Seersucker Around
By: Godfrey Deeny
Photos by Gruber-FWD
PARIS, Jul 4, 2002/ FWD/ --- Menswear's classiest designer Veronique Nichanian had another
hit Sunday with her easiest and most approachable collection to date for the house of Hermes.
As in recent seasons, Veronique staged her catwalk show in the lobby of the UNESCO headquarters
in Paris, the rugged poured concrete contrasting subtly with the cool cottons and linens of
Nichanian's preferred fabric this season - seersucker.
"I believe in the verticality of men," joked the designer as she graciously accepted the
plaudits of her many fans backstage after the show.
In a season that has never seen so much seersucker on the runways, Hermes had easily the
finest anywhere.
Like other designers in Milan and Paris Nichanian concentrated on non-contrasting
seersucker -- tobacco and ecru, grays and very off-whites -- but what stood hers apart
was the impeccable cut: just lean enough to flatter a younger man, yet roomy enough to
please his dad.
The world's greatest saddler remains a brilliant source of leather apparel, as the designer
firmly underlined with the most exquisite jacket in suede lambskin with topstitching.
We're talking a magna cum laude look. Her handling of reindeer "be-bop" shirts and
blousons was also impeccable.
But above all, it was the sense of easy elegance and assured style that made this such
a great collection.
If you want unpretentious, unadulterated style, Hermes is where you should go.
Hermes
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