HERMÈS WOMEN’S FALL-WINTER 2026 COLLECTION THE SECOND CHAPTER

SILHOUETTES ON THE HORIZON

On a June evening in Los Angeles, Hermès unveils the second chapter of its Fall-Winter 2026 collection by Nadège Vanhée, Artistic Director of Women’s Ready-to-Wear.

At sunset, a pavilion in the Bel Air hills transforms into a luminous stage. Washed in pale yellow neon light, it merges with the golden-hour glow as the surrounding landscape resolves into a space of projection where fiction and reality blur.

Dressmaking meets dance: skilled hands mirror the rhythm of rehearsal and performance, while bodies and garments become vessels of expression. Craft and choreography converge through gestures perfected over time, revealing a singular form of beauty. A common language emerges, uniting dancer, artisan and woman.

Precision gives way to fluidity in a quiet interplay of tension and release. Extending Hermès’ savoir-faire beyond leather and the House’s silk heritage into flou, the dress is placed at the heart of the collection, expressing the many facets of femininity while elevating its most archetypal forms.

From the dancer’s wardrobe emerges a new vocabulary of detail and construction. The ballet slipper inspires a series of jewel-toned satin dresses in rouge tango, vert impérial and jaune flave.

Fine piping traces the line of the body; grosgrain ribbons fasten and untie; gathered bustiers echo the softened tip. Cache-coeur knits wrap and support the form, integrated into dresses to provide warmth and structure. Jumpsuits in smocked knit with flared legs, traced with glittering embroidery, evoke an elevated interpretation of warm-up attire.

Then, the gesture breaks free. Dancers spill into the street, suddenly released. Sensual foulard dresses in luminous silk velvet remain in motion, tempered by biker jackets and glossy leather coats: a ride with no limits but the horizon of the Pacific.

The iconic Soleil de Soie TATTOO carré takes on a new materiality. Reimagined in volume, it is smocked, gathered and draped, as though lifted from its centre before cascading into fluid folds.

With nightfall, draped embroidered gowns glitter against black satin and deep velvet, recalling the infinite expanse of a star-strewn sky.

For a moment, the ensemble holds as a living tableau, figures suspended in a final bow. Yet there is no fixed form, only cycles and progression, as movement repeats, refines and resists resolution.

An open path. A vital force.