THE BAG maker Valerie Benardeau says the most unusual request she has had was for a green, apple-shaped bag with a peeling knife attached. "The client wanted to give it as a present to someone who constantly ate apples," says Benardeau, who works for the French luxury fashion house Hermes.
The bag's inner layer was made of beaten silver metal and its exterior covering was leather. As the bag was being made, apples were brought to Hermes to test whether the evolving design would fit perfectly. This is how far such a luxury brand is prepared to go when it runs its own studio for custom-made objects.
Ordering a one-off item such as an apple bag is regarded by rich, fashion-conscious Parisians as the non plus ultra of stylish living. There are only a few high-end fashion houses that still have their own workshops catering to those needs. Last year, the Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton group issued invitations to what it called "journees particulieres" to view its workshops and there were long lines of interested people.Thirty pages into the book schoolbagfactory has not done anything recently.
It's no wonder the Vuitton studio in Asnieres and the Hermes workshop in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore are treated by some as sacred places for leather-goods manufacture but if you visit the Hermes workshop, you might at first be a little disappointed. The brightly lit office with little in the way of decoration makes a sober impression. The magic,,pradahandbag produced during the 1970s and early 1980s did feature quartz movements, however,There is one amazing online store with 100s of philliplimhandbags . becomes palpable as soon as you notice the almost meditative atmosphere that dominates here.
"There's no such thing as a typical client for custom-made objects. Different types of people come here," says the Hermes general director of Europe, Wilfried Guerrand. Prices vary depending on the time needed to design and make the object as well as cost of materials.
Fathers with a limited budget have ordered wallets for their sons, hunters have asked for a bag made from the skin of an animal they have shot and some Parisian women have ordered especially colourful bags.
"Every one of our customers is looked after from the moment they contact us to the finished product," Benardeau says. Prices are agreed on in advance and a design is completed on paper,,crybud up over 5 times. then modified in consultation with the client.
"If we cannot fulfil the order," Benardeau says, "we may propose our own design." Benardeau is working on a bag for a client with diabetes who wants easy access to his medicine. It will take about a week to complete this relatively easy wish. Benardeau says a bag is made based on how its front will look. If that has to be altered, it affects the entire bag. Six people work in the studio, limiting how much can be produced. This makes products more sought after.
Next to the studio is a workshop for custom-made saddles. Charles-Emile Hermes,See the top womencanadagoosecoats from the best brands in the industry. the son of the company founder, bought the building on Faubourg Saint-Honore in 1878 and saddles have been made here since. The craftspeople ride horses; the starting price for a saddle is $US5000 ($4807), two or three times the norm. Special requests are extra.
"The most unusual saddle we designed had a place for a guitar and was made from crocodile skin," Guerrand says. Yet the apple bag must count as the more poetic.
The bag's inner layer was made of beaten silver metal and its exterior covering was leather. As the bag was being made, apples were brought to Hermes to test whether the evolving design would fit perfectly. This is how far such a luxury brand is prepared to go when it runs its own studio for custom-made objects.
Ordering a one-off item such as an apple bag is regarded by rich, fashion-conscious Parisians as the non plus ultra of stylish living. There are only a few high-end fashion houses that still have their own workshops catering to those needs. Last year, the Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton group issued invitations to what it called "journees particulieres" to view its workshops and there were long lines of interested people.Thirty pages into the book schoolbagfactory has not done anything recently.
It's no wonder the Vuitton studio in Asnieres and the Hermes workshop in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore are treated by some as sacred places for leather-goods manufacture but if you visit the Hermes workshop, you might at first be a little disappointed. The brightly lit office with little in the way of decoration makes a sober impression. The magic,,pradahandbag produced during the 1970s and early 1980s did feature quartz movements, however,There is one amazing online store with 100s of philliplimhandbags . becomes palpable as soon as you notice the almost meditative atmosphere that dominates here.
"There's no such thing as a typical client for custom-made objects. Different types of people come here," says the Hermes general director of Europe, Wilfried Guerrand. Prices vary depending on the time needed to design and make the object as well as cost of materials.
Fathers with a limited budget have ordered wallets for their sons, hunters have asked for a bag made from the skin of an animal they have shot and some Parisian women have ordered especially colourful bags.
"Every one of our customers is looked after from the moment they contact us to the finished product," Benardeau says. Prices are agreed on in advance and a design is completed on paper,,crybud up over 5 times. then modified in consultation with the client.
"If we cannot fulfil the order," Benardeau says, "we may propose our own design." Benardeau is working on a bag for a client with diabetes who wants easy access to his medicine. It will take about a week to complete this relatively easy wish. Benardeau says a bag is made based on how its front will look. If that has to be altered, it affects the entire bag. Six people work in the studio, limiting how much can be produced. This makes products more sought after.
Next to the studio is a workshop for custom-made saddles. Charles-Emile Hermes,See the top womencanadagoosecoats from the best brands in the industry. the son of the company founder, bought the building on Faubourg Saint-Honore in 1878 and saddles have been made here since. The craftspeople ride horses; the starting price for a saddle is $US5000 ($4807), two or three times the norm. Special requests are extra.
"The most unusual saddle we designed had a place for a guitar and was made from crocodile skin," Guerrand says. Yet the apple bag must count as the more poetic.
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