Three continents, three cities, a 14-hour time zone difference, 21,000 kilometres—Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski staged her most ambitious show yet for Hermès fall-winter 2021, starting in New York, then heading onward to Paris, and finally concluding in Shanghai. 

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Watching the triptych of shows—as Hermès referred to it—was a visual delight. Kicking things off in New York, choreographer Madeline Hollander presented a graceful display celebrating the beauty of gestures, with dancers traipsing around a stage draped with on-brand orange curtains that rotated as the troupe moved lithely across and around them. This then segued into the brand’s highlight of the evening—the FW21 show in Paris—that included models strutting down the runway in streamlined dresses, cosy blanket capes, and all-around comfortably luxe essentials for the modern woman. The last instalment of the triptych ended with a performance art piece by Gu Jiani in Shanghai, where the actors leapt and climbed and swooped around the space, moving orange boxes around as they did so in an arresting display.

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