Just like every other aspect of our daily lives these days—workouts, school, even baby showers—this interview with Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski, artistic director of Hermès’s women’s ready-to-wear was conducted over Zoom. On a seemingly sunny Paris morning, a few days after her spring/summer 2021 showing at the Tennis Club de Paris, she spoke to me from her home, where she was already brainstorming the spring/summer 2022 collection. A lockdown in the city of lights was imminent again, thanks to a fierce second wave of COVID-19, and Vanhee-Cybulski was grappling with what it meant for her as a creative and as a mother, along with what it would entail for the women she dresses.
Priyanka Khanna: How are you? How have the last few months been?
Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski: The general feeling is...I’m good. [The last few months have been] Exciting, challenging, always changing.
PK: Are you working at home or at the studio?
NVC: We have assimilated to new protocols. I have a few days at home so that I can recollect myself and my ideas for spring/summer 2022. We were under lockdown for six weeks earlier in the year. When I went back to the studio, I was motivated to meet my peers again and excited to see how we would reconfigure the line that we had presented in October.
Has it changed the way I work? I don’t think so. I’ve always been thorough. When I have an idea, I stick to it, develop it, deepen it and take it further. So I haven’t revolutionised the way I work, but we have had to integrate more technology. We have collaborators from many countries, so we have to be ingenious and use new ways of sharing the process.
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