The french luxury brand that took off and is the talk of the town, and if you haven’t watched properly go check out @loveluxury @bagista and @seller who sell multiple luxury items in store from chanel, louis vuitton, gucci, dior but love luxury mainly sell hermes brand the hermes handbags.
So how did it come about, well we all know that hermes was french luxury fashion brand, and of course paris, France is known to be the most fashionable but also romantic city in whole of europe.
And according to Hermes.co.uk – it took six generations to craft stunning leather good handbags in each different colours, but why do most hermes hand bags are called birken and kelly.
Well we do a deep dive into why, but first lets look at the six artist behind hermes brand. The adventure according to hermes.co.uk began in Paris, France in 1937, harness-maker Thierry Hermès opened a workshop in rue Basse-du-Rempart. He understood very his customers desire for simplicity and harness, also in 1867 hee was recognised with an award in the universal exhibiton.
Then in the 1880’s his son Charles Emilie Hermes opened and moved the workshops to 24 Faubourg Saint-Honoré, and opens a store. At this now-emblematic address, harnesses and saddles were made to measure. The house’s reputation for the excellence of its creations spread throughout Europe.
1922
Émile Hermès
During the interwar period, lifestyles changed and the house broke new ground under the management of Émile Hermès, son of Charles-Émile. Hermès offered items that met society’s needs, from saddlery and harnesses to leather goods. Émile Hermès had been inspired by a very simple idea that decisively changed the course of the family business. During a trip to Canada, he was fascinated by the American “close-all” opening and closing system on the hood of a military car. In 1922, he obtained the exclusive rights to this system, known today as the zip or zipper; and it came to be used on many of the house’s bags.
Throughout his life, Émile Hermès was an avid collector of works of art, books, objects and curiosities. The collection is constantly enriched by his successors and continues to be a source of inexhaustible inspiration for the house’s creations.
Later on around the 1950s, Charles Emilie Hermes passed on the business to one of his son in laws as he was a father to only four daughter. Again in that time period women really struggled with being seen as business women. and that Charles’s couldn’t give the business to his daughters his own flesh and blood.
Anyway it is here where Hermes son in law Robert Dumas started silk scarf, e Kelly bag and the Chaîne d’ancre bracelet, which he was inspired to create while observing boats moored in Normandy.
The famous kelly bag was created because of Grace Kelly the famous actress also later known as princess of Monaco. this was around 1950s, and Grace Kelly being photographed with Hermes Kelly bag brought great success to the business, also around the 1980s out came the Birkin bag inspired by the famous actress Jane Birkin.
Also the swinging sixties we had eïla Menchari, a graduate of the Beaux-Arts of Tunis and Paris, joined Annie Beaumel in designing the window displays of the Faubourg Saint-Honoré store.
In 1967 the French stylist of hungarian origin, Catherine Karoliya was entrusted with the women’s wardrobe since 1980 then she designed clothing and accessories.
Around the 1970s Robert Duma’s son Jean Louis Duma revolutionized the Hermes brand around the 1970s and 1980s and 1990s. From watch making to operating name to La Montre Hermès. In 1976.
Jean Dumas continued expanding the business even in in the 21st century however, since 2006 Patrick Thomas. Who established the difference between the different generations from nineteenth century to twentieth century to the twentieth first century.
Around 2020s Hermes produced fragrance and make up brand, companies like love luxury work closely with Hermes.
https://www.hermes.com/uk/en/content/271366-six-generations-of-artisans/
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