For its first L.A. women's show, Hermès touches down in Bel-Air — Birkin bags everywhere - BERITAJA

How do you reserve your spot astatine an Hermès show? A Birkin bag, apparently. Even earlier pulling up to the Second Chapter of the Hermès women’s ready-to-wear fall-winter show successful Bel-Air — the house’s first women’s show successful Los Angeles — photographer Tyler Matthew Oyer was texting maine photos of women astatine check-in clutching their Birkins successful 1 hand, telephone and ID successful the other. “They are everywhere.” I took a photograph of my yellowish raffia bag, the grip tied pinch an Hermès equine scarf that erstwhile belonged to my maternal grandmother.

Getting to the destination was for illustration ascending to a parallel beingness of the Getty, successful akin excursion-like manner — only alternatively of cablegram cars, we gathered into achromatic vans pinch tinted windows that climbed the mountains other the museum. After a coagulated 20 minutes of winding roads, we reached the expansive reveal: a butter-yellow pavilion, delectable and whimsical for illustration a elephantine barroom connected stilts, plastered pinch all-caps neon signage, SILHOUETTES ON THE HORIZON. The structure, designed by Maybe Paris pinch Hermès imaginative head Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski, was built from scratch and took 3 weeks to build.

“I smell leather. Do you smell leather?” Keyla Marquez, our manner head astatine large, asked, turning to maine from wrong the buttery dome, solid of Champagne successful hand. Hermès leather equipment were connected display, including connected Keyla, who wore a vintage achromatic skirt pinch zippers moving up the beforehand and backmost and a suede top.

The show started unusually connected time, conscionable moments past 7:30 p.m., astatine highest twilight. But from wherever we sat, it was arsenic if we were wrong a sun going up astatine night, the suspended bands of ray brightening and intensifying our yellowish abode.

The runway looped for illustration Bel-Air’s roads, the models stepping successful S’s and the apparel pursuing suit, dresses, ’80s flared pants and silks expanding and trailing down them successful a measurement that brought to mind Audrey Hepburn successful “Funny Face,” snaking down the steps of the Louvre successful Givenchy (“Take the picture! Take the picture!”). The show notes pointed to “the dancer’s wardrobe” arsenic inspiration, embracing really cloth could person a mind of its ain — gathering, draping, cascading. “Don’t soft retired the wrinkles,” a sound complete the euphony said. Each wrinkle is “a powerful current.” A double entendre for embracing age? I liked to deliberation so, particularly erstwhile the soundtrack to the finale came on, Kim Carnes’ “Bette Davis Eyes,” a tribute to the Old Hollywood character and her timeless, teasing gaze.

I caught up pinch Keyla Marquez aft the show for her return connected the evening.

The first impermanent who caught your oculus and why.

Brenda Hashtag. I’m a fan. I consciousness for illustration she’s of a caller procreation of influencers and has a batch to say. She’s really susceptible pinch the things she says about being successful the manner world. She did an question and reply pinch the Cutting Room Floor about manner shows and really group don’t opportunity hullo each other, and there’s thing incorrect pinch saying hullo to each other. She’s portion of caller procreation that has much vulnerability. For me, it’s not truthful overmuch celebrities but these group who are changing the scenery of the manner manufacture and she’s 1 of them. Even though she said she doesn’t for illustration L.A. [laughs].

Brenda Hashtag.

Three words that picture the nighttime for you.

Magical, opulent and VIC’s.

Did you person a favourite look?

Yes. The assemblage portion pinch the flared sound legs. I consciousness for illustration each these designers who grew up successful the ’80s are bringing backmost the ’80s successful a really chic way. YSL did this postulation a mates seasons agone pinch socks pinch fringe connected them. That outfit was very reminiscent of that. There’s this caller play connected the ’80s but not successful a cheesy way. It’s very chic and luxurious.

Monochrome ruled the runway. Are you squad reddish (“rouge tango”), blue-green (“vert impérial”), yellowish (“jaune flave”) aliases black?

Black and yellow. I would’ve been OK pinch the bluish not being included. I spot the ’80s inspiration but I would’ve been OK pinch bluish not being a portion of the colour palette.

The champion point you ate aft the show.

Those ovum thingies pinch roe were truthful good. What was successful it even?! The truffle toast was bomb. And of course, Champagne.

Your return connected the Birkin bag.

The much worn out, the better.

The point you show the L.A. haters who flew successful for conscionable a fewer days for the show.

Get to cognize the culture. Get to cognize the existent people. Go to the eastbound side. When the only point that you spot are the influencers and Erewhon, that’s not the existent L.A. You person to spell to wherever the civilization lives.

Monique McWilliams and Lauren Halsey.

Lisa Love.

Keke Palmer.

Chloe Fineman and Miranda July.

Misty Copeland.

Kerry Washington.

Jeffrey Deitch, left.

Beka Gvishiani.

Natasha Lyonne.

Nicolai and Simon Haas.

Hermès imaginative head Nadège Vanhee-Cybulski.