Inside a Menswear Legend’s Last Dance at Hermès

This is an edition of the newsletter Show Notes, in which Samuel Hine reports from the front row of the fashion world. Sign up here to get it free.

Veronique Nichanian held her first runway show for Hermès in 1988. On Saturday evening in Paris, she was preparing for her 87th, which would also be her last as artistic director of Hermès menswear. As a crowd of some 600 guests poured into the neoclassical Palais Brongniart, Nichanian was sitting in a private room with a few close members of…