Last year when watching the glove maker carefully going about his work at the Hermès Festival des Métiers in Hamburg, one of the interpreters caught my attention. She had a spectacular hairdo - her hair was artfully braided. And to top it off and add Hermès flair, she had incorporated a silk scarf into her headdress. The ...
A couple of weeks ago Hermès presented their Festival des Métiers here in Vienna. Those of you who follow me on Instagram have already seen a couple of pictures. - Once again I was pondering on what to wear and which handbag to use? Fall was slowly approaching and so I figured my vintage Kelly bag was ...
This week's photo challenge asks for a wall. I've looked on and at the "Berlin Mauer", the wall that separated East and West Germany for more than 28 years and at the same time ripped many relationships and families apart. It was "them" and "us", until 9th November 1989. - I've been to the Great Wall ...
Hermès Festival des Métiers - Gantier / Glove Maker During the last couple of months I lost two black gloves. No, not a pair (wishful thinking!), but a left kidskin and a right suede glove. Despite them being many years old, I could have cried, because they were pretty and comfy and one pair was ...
Festival des Métiers - unpaid advertisement . It's been a little while since I visited the Festival des Métiers, where Hermès artisans gave an insight to the house's craftsmanship and traditional métiers. The exhibition was held in May at the Hamburg-Museum and I've given you some ideas of what I've seen here and here. Es ist schon ein Weilchen her, seit ich das Festival des Métiers, eine Ausstellung, in der Hermès Kunsthandwerker Einblick in die Kunstfertigkeiten des Hauses gewährten, besuchte. ...
Have you ever considered gloves a work of art? To be quite frank, I haven't. But since I visited the Festival des Métiers in which Hermès craftsmen showed their skills and knowledge (here), I do see gloves and in particular these, as a work of art, because now I know how the leather was inspected, streched and ...
