It was a good hair day at Hermès. Over the winter, Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski had woken up and decided to chop off her long copper-red mane. “I put a band around it and did it myself,” she said. She was walking around backstage, looking great, with her new bob. It mightn’t jump out immediately from the photographs, but the subtle-chic she put into her collection was rooted (forgive pun) in her “tribute to hair, human hair. And the symbolism of it as a feminine attribute.”
She glancingly suggested that she’d loosely based the top-to-toe hues on the dye-charts of hair colors that every woman knows from the aisles of drug stores the world over. The opening look—a wavy-patterned lurex sweater over matching knee-length shorts—hit the runway dangling a bag made of horse hair, cinched in the middle with a silver-embossed leather strap. A wink, perhaps, to the moment that Vanhee-Cybulski lopped off her own pony-tail.
Photos: gorbun_roman
