‘They have total freedom’: inside the Hermès Fashion Accessories Prize for young designers
On the upper floor of Hermès’ Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré headquarters in Paris is the Emile Hermès Collection (informally, ‘the museum’), named for its founder, a scion of the prestigious family who once used the rooms as his personal offices. Behind lock and key – open only for rare visits by the house’s employees and…