How Hermès Bags Are Made | Vogue

[Music] hi vog my name is Priscilla Alexander spring I'm the Le the goods creative director at Hermes we're in pantan near Paris and you'll be spending the day with me today so let's go we have a very strong a t and a really beautiful history I hope that when you buy a bag from Hermes it's love at first sight but also something that you know you're going to hold for a long [Music] time [Music] so this is our studio Al let good Studio where the team works and uh we're very excited to share with you cuz it's the first time we open our door I'll take you to my [Music] office I grew up in this environment of like with my family always working with their hands and myself I've always loved to draw and that was really what my passion was as a child and I spent hours and hours and hours sketching my grandma was an embroiderer and uh she always taught me how the most beautiful embroidery is the reverse as it should be as beautiful as the outside and my dad was a self-thought um creative so I always watched him doing a lot of painting sculpture usually I do like little sketches just to explain more or less what the idea is and then it's going to be a discussion with the matist and we're going to try to make a 3D maette then if we like it we'll move on to leather pre iul do you have 5 Second of course so it's going to be right on time for the show yeah perfect and took several ones okay cool they did it in Sala right [Music] yeah to explain this is the Salpa it's a material like a fabric that we use that simulates leather because it really behaves like leather the good thing is that we can make several mockups as you can see and we can play with it uh before actually using the real leather and really helps us to visualize how things are going to look in the end as you can see thank you thank you see you later s Hi how are you good you good good how's it going was working as we talked about before on am backpack the idea is to bring a new Gest reality something a little bit more contemporary but still with the very recognizable codes of hers there's different ways to approach novelty in our collections you know we have a very strong a Tage and a really beautiful history which is very inspiring but we also like to bring new ideas to the table that are based on our classics like the Kelli the Burkin or the wakura we have these old equestri cataloges either by the shape a strap a form it's endless the way we can be inspired by these old [Music] cataloges is anous lift it's slow [Music] as Sal hello Christine this is Christine she Cates and manages all the Artisans you'll see in this atellier and basically she's the head of development and she makes sure that all the bags that leave airs uh they have to be validated by Christine 40 years she knows everything she is the queen that's how we call her Queen Christine so I'm going to explain you basically we have this new bag with a little closure that is it looks like he's just hanging there and actually what we're doing is that we have this is the same piece and basically there's like uh little holes and O is going to stitch everything by hand so that we can then close our bag this bag was designed and we did it in the studio for like maybe 3 months and now with the bureau desit maybe we're going to take like about 6 to 9 months to put it a point okay so now we're going to see Stefan is working with Alexander that is from the Bureau of which means the hardware workshop and they're trying to get the metal and the leather working together the magic of this office hello hello Sal hello so this bag is inspired by a gigantic horse bit the idea is to hide the whole metal part with the leather we polish all our Hardware by hand and we use brass we love noise at our mess the noise that the metal does and the noise that a closure has so this is little details that we pay a lot of attention as well that most people don't know and we do spend a little time on just hearing the noise and see if we like the noise Sal Karim so this is the front of a Kelly uh because we like the client not to feel anything in the back when you touch your back inside we make a little hole where we will put this little closure our Artisans they need to do four years of training to be able to manufacture a Kelly bag this that you've just seen the perlage you need to be very skilled and very very good because if you miss one single second to the side you have to redo everything again so Bravo [Music] Karim fabis is doing the last stitching on a Kelly bag a Kelly takes around 13 hours to be made depending on the materials that we make it I like the Kelly because it's an archetype it was made in the 30s and it was always in the shell until Grace Kelly one day covered their pregnant belly from Paparazzi and then that was it the rest is the history the Kelly became the Kelly so as you could see that we built the Kelly heres made inside out it requires a lot of skill to turn it and get it on the right [Music] way this is our stock of leathers that we usually use to do our mockups we have about 200 colors always in collection and about 50 materials including different letters as you can see craftsmanship is really at the core of the M before anything it's the work of women and men that they do by hand it's been transmitted for many generations now so we do have our specific savare the way we stitch the way we assemble the way we think about bags at our mess addresses longevity from the very beginning we think straight away how are we going to repair this how someone in maybe 30 years will repair this so I think this addresses sustainab in a very different way because also and the ultimate goal with our bags is that they last as long time as [Music] possible let me introduce you to Mark Mark has been working at hers for 25 years and he's just doing a birin picnic and he's going to show us how he's doing the little lace so as to assemble the bag the leather and the weaker everything is a little hand [Music] lass it takes about 8 hours to do the lacing all around the bag as you can see Mark already started inside and 19 hours to do the whole [Music] bag okay vog uh I hope you spend a good day today with us here at ours I hope you learned a lot about uh how we do things and it's night time so time to go home see you [Music] soon [Music]

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Length: 10min 8sec (608 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 01 2024