2012年6月5日 星期二

In Paris, Hermes Puts Its Best Foot Forward

Not only did the sun finally make an appearance, Paris got a shot of orange yesterday morning—Hermes orange, to be precise. On Monday, the French house unveiled its summer pop-up store (8 rue des Sevres, Paris), where the story is all about women’s shoes. The full range of summer footwear by Pierre Hardy, including Oran sandals in hot pink, navy, and orange neoprene (all exclusive to this location, 390), flank one side of the space, and a preview of the Fall shoes and boots (dejo!) lines the opposite.in beadsturquoise tube cutting and forming.

“The concept is really simple, but it seemed obvious to me to play on the Hermes box,” says interior decorator Stephane Parmentier. “It’s radical and graphic, but also warm.” A pair of “monochromes in movement,” portals of slowly rotating dry pigments by artist Manuel Merida, echo the ones now featured at the Right Bank flagship,what really makes my heart go pitter-patter with excitement are dsquaredshoes. and Walking Distance, a video by Rosario Romagnosi, brings movement to the space,Asia me handmade breitlingwatches reproductions of famous artists. which sits on the angle of the rue de Sevres and the rue des Saints-Peres like the prow of a ship.

For Hermes, this is but a first act the shop will close on July 19 to make way for a space dedicated to its Chinese contemporary lifestyle brand Shang Xia, which is slated to open at the end of the year. And for Parmentier, the project marks a first return to fashion since shuttering his signature label over a decade ago. “I wanted to really bring people into an Hermes experience, so it has this feeling of being backstage, or in a stockroom,” he admits.you how to dgshoessale and enjoy a better health. A hint of things to come? Parmentier earned his stripes with Lanvin,In addition, you can shoesbrandsthe latest collection . Givenchy, and Karl Lagerfeld it’s a fair bet he hasn’t said his last
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Hackett pointed out that people in the U.S. can make the much safer investment of buying transgenic zebrafish marketed under the "Glofish" name — current varieties include red, green, yellow and purple. Such zebrafish also represent popular transgenic animals in research labs such as Hackett's.

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