Hermès just took a flight Westside and landed somewhere between the hills of Bel Air, carrying on the second chapter of its Fall/Winter 2026 collection. Craftsmanship and movement were again positioned as the guiding references, this time filtered through Nadège Vanhée’s focus on dance and performance. As the brand put it in its show caption: “Craft and choreography converge through gestures perfected over time, revealing a form of beauty. A common language emerges, uniting dancer, artisan, and woman,” I’d probably pay Los Angeles a visit too, if I wanted French control to learn how to behave in motion.
Where can someone witness an alarming amount of the hardest to find and highest-priced Birkins and Kellys in Bel Air? Everywhere, technically. But a beige sculptural installation, washed in Californian golden hour light, drifting closer to Hermès orange, built around columns, pathways, and a sign reading “Silhouettes On The Horizon,” might just be the place to be. “It has the hint of old Europe mixed with the new world, it’s a place where you reinvent yourself, where you can explore everything,” Vanhée told Vogue. That exploring began with guests including Miley Cyrus, Keke Palmer, Julia-Louis Dreyfus, and Kerry Washington, hopping on a golf cart, moving through a sharp incline, and entering a butter-yellow drenched space.
Which, in hindsight, makes sense: the show opened with a trio in the same shade, described as “jaune fauve” in the press release and, later on, as “morning” in most people’s minds. “Rouge tango” moved closer to sunset, like a red scratch along the horizon on a summer day, while “vert impérial” signaled the end of that day, pushed further by its darker tones. Those colors appeared across satin dresses with ballet-influenced construction details, velvet ones leaning into 1930s and old-world references, sparkling knit showgirl onesies, and studded biker jackets in heavily worked leather. New bags came in east-west proportions, with totes in triangular silhouettes and relaxed shoulder shapes. And don’t forget, the Hermès girl, after all, is still a horse girl. Equestrian codes simply extend into everyday dressing, even a summer night out.
