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This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the fashion world. Sign up here to get it free.<\/a><\/p>\n

Veronique Nichanian held her first runway show for Herm\u00e8s<\/a> in 1988. On Saturday evening in Paris, she was preparing for her 87th, which would also be her last as artistic director of Herm\u00e8s menswear<\/a>. As a crowd of some 600 guests poured into the neoclassical Palais Brongniart, Nichanian was sitting in a private room with a few close members of her team. The only real indication that it was V-Day was a pin fixed to her navy sweater that read \u201cThe Last Dance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel good,\u201d Nichanian said. \u201cMaybe I will cry tonight, I don’t know. But so far I’m fine!\u201d<\/p>\n

Nichanian, 71, announced her retirement in October, and Herm\u00e8s appointed Grace Wales Bonner<\/a> as her successor shortly after. Nichanian told me she could have stayed as long as she wanted. \u201cThe house and [Herm\u00e8s CEO] Axel [Dumas] did not want me to stop!\u201d she said. But she said she felt it was time to hang up the shears to fulfill a lifelong dream of living in Tokyo, where she will spend the next six months. Referring to Bonner, Nichanian said, \u201cIt\u2019s time for another person to take men\u2019s Herm\u00e8s, and to do what she can\u2014it\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonner\u2019s debut is set for January 2027, so Saturday night was all about Nichanian. Downstairs, Travis Scott attempted to keep a low profile in a tacit acknowledgment of the evening\u2019s true star. A guest managed to get Scott to sign a Birkin, but otherwise there wasn\u2019t the typical swarm of photographers and selfie takers mobbing the rapper. \u201cI\u2019m here to see VN,\u201d said Scott, dressed in a trim pinstripe suit. \u201cShe\u2019s been here for 37 years, it\u2019s crazy. I had to be here to see what\u2019s gonna happen tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

I mentioned that Nichanian is obsessed with pinstripes, and Scott smiled widely. \u201cExactly!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Scott\u2019s presence speaks to Nichanian\u2019s influence on several generations of men\u2019s fashion obsessives. When she left Cerruti to take the job at Herm\u00e8s, Ronald Reagan was president and menswear meant tailoring and ties. She pioneered what is now thought of as quiet luxury, clothes that were casual but sophisticated, made with princely fabrics and exquisite detailing. But her thing is not always quiet: she was also keen on introducing men to the pleasures of color and the necessity of a head-snapping croc leather jacket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,52991,85,46,11092,55643,9173,6612,5101],"class_list":["post-257118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-hermes","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-paris-fashion-week","tag-show-notes","tag-style","tag-textbelowcentergridwidth","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}