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- Words George Upton
- Photos Luc Braquet
Véronique Nichanian on the latest Hermès collection.
( 1 ) Nino Cerruti also gave Italian designer Giorgio Armani his big break in fashion, hiring him as a designer in the mid-'60s.
A lot has changed in men’s fashion since Véronique Nichanian was appointed to head the menswear division at Hermès in 1988. For one, men were still expected to wear a suit and a tie. “It was all very limiting,” she says in her office at Hermès’ headquarters in the center of Paris. “But I’ve been talking about sensuality since I started, which was not a word people were using in the '80s or '90s!”
( 1 ) Nino Cerruti also gave Italian designer Giorgio Armani his big break in fashion, hiring him as a designer in the mid-'60s.
