![]() The players (and a entire brass band) led guests through the new store and out onto the street, past rows of food trucks dishing up New York classics like dim sum, falafel, and Junior’s cheesecake, where the party continued one just block downtown inside the house’s former flagship space. Hermès commissioned Love Around the Block, a roving original musical about a couple who met-where else?-outside the Hermès store. To celebrate, the house transformed the four entire Upper East Side blocks into a rollicking street fair, which fed into a shindig that was part musical theater extravaganza, part love letter to New York City-and spanned four different locations. After eight years of planning, the French luxury label opened its biggest store ever: a 20,250-square-foot flagship at 706 Madison Avenue, featuring five airy floors, rooftop garden, and a full bar. Meanwhile, five artisans from different métiers will share a fifth-floor atelier for alterations and repairs.Maison Hermès is back in New York and ready for business. Reproductions of iconic silk scarves also grace the space, including “American Quilts” by Aline Honoré.Ī special version of that scarf has been designed exclusively for the new address, along with several Kelly bags, a Bolide bag, two watches, a jukebox and a bicycle. Several drawings by French artist Rosa Bonheur - the subject of a retrospective at Paris’ Musée d’Orsay - are on display. Haut à courroies cargo bag, designed by Geoff McFetridge, $69,500 at Hermès PAULINE DEVESĬreative touches include a tile floor in Hermès signature mosaic, an 1830s hansom cab borrowed from the Émile Hermès collection, and dozens of paintings, photographs and etchings dating back to the 19th century. A majestic Portuguese limestone staircase stretches from the ground floor to the fourth, where a dramatic curved-glass cupola floods the space with natural light. All 16 of the company’s métiers - including leather goods, women’s ready-to-wear by artistic director Nadège Vanhée-Cybulski, shoes and jewelry by Pierre Hardy, the silk universe, men’s clothing, watches, beauty, perfumes, tableware and furniture - are sold in sumptuous salons across four floors. The fashionable crowd dined outdoors at Hermès-wrapped food trucks serving iconic New York dishes, then boogied into the early hours at an underground nightclub in a former Hermès boutique.Įight years in the making, the colorful new store is as glamorous and imaginative as the party. More than 1,000 guests, including Nicky Hilton Rothschild, Martha Stewart, Tory Burch and “Saturday Night Live” star Chloe Fineman, enjoyed an original musical named “Love Around the Block,” commissioned by the company and performed by Broadway stars and a brass band. To celebrate the opening, the French brand took over three city blocks and threw a rollicking multimillion-dollar, Champagne and caviar fueled reception meets eclectic street festival. The magnificent garden-topped store occupies three buildings - two townhouses and a historic Bank of New York outpost, built in the federalist style - and offers unprecedented customer service, an array of handcrafted products, from an NYC-themed Kelly Mini bag to made-to-measure menswear, and plenty of Parisian savoir faire. Hermès has unveiled one of its largest flagships in the world at 706 Madison Ave., in New York’s tony shopping corridor. Sydney Sweeney is ready for Hot Girl Summer ![]() Hamptons shopping: The best new luxury stores and pop-ups for 2023Ī-list designer Kelly Wearstler knows how to host in style ![]() The best new hotels in the Hamptons for 2023
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