Hermès at Paris Fashion Week: in a private jet hangar runway show, the luxury brand presented spring/summer 2022 looks evoking its equestrian heritage

Oct 5 , 2021

A model presents a creation by designer Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski as part of a spring/summer 2022 women’s ready-to-wear collection show for fashion house Hermes during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, on October 2. Photo: Reuters

Fashion maisons turned out in full force this season following months of online-only, streamed shows due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Nadege Vanhee-Cybulki, Hermès’ women’s ready-to-wear creative director, added modern touches and leather embellishments to her feminine silhouettes

French luxury group Hermès International shuttled the fashion press to an airport on the outskirts of Paris, on October 2, for its spring ready-to-wear catwalk show, sending fitted leather crop tops, silky dresses and relaxed trousers down a circular catwalk set up in a hangar.

Models wear creations for the Hermès spring-summer 2022 ready-to-wear fashion show presented on October 2, in Paris. Photo: AP Photo

A model presents a creation from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection for Hermès during Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, on October 2. Photo: Xinhua

Robot cameras whizzed around the runway and dropped from the ceiling, filming the models as they marched past the audience seated on a platform at the centre of the space.

A model presents a creation from the spring/summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection for Hermès during the Paris Fashion Week in Paris, France, on October 2. Photo: Xinhua

Paris Fashion Week, which ran through October 5, kicked into full swing this season with dozens of labels holding in-person shows following months of disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

A model presents a creation for Hermès during the women’s spring-summer 2022 ready-to-wear collection fashion show in Le Bourget, on the outskirts of Paris, as part of Paris Fashion Week, on October 2. Photo: AFP