In a 2019 System magazine interview, Grace Wales Bonner praised menswear designer Raf Simons for being ¡°very uncompromising,¡± describing it as ¡°a really beautiful thing to see in this era.¡±
The quality dear to Wales Bonner is also prized at Hermes, the 188-year-old French luxury house famed for its rigorous and meticulous ways that this week appointed her its new creative director of men¡¯s ready-to-wear collections, making her the only Black woman to lead design at a major European luxury house.
The appointment gives the maker of Birkin bags a 35-year-old designer known for her unique way of melding fine tailoring with broad cultural research, with a string of awards under her belt.
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