Fashion Week Shoes: Hermes Fall 2011
The lore of Hermes footwear has always been secondary to that of its bags handbags (and perhaps tertiary, behind both bags and scarves), but cold-weather collections like Hermes Fall 2011 give the shoes a chance to shine because of the increased leather real estate that a boot provides over, say, a sandal. Leather is always the star with this brand, and the more of it can be incorporated, the happier Hermes lovers are.
Which is the good news about Christophe Lemaire’s first collection for Hermes: There were plenty of boots. The bad news is that some of them were attached to leather pants to create what seemed to be extremely expensive leather waders, which is not a good look, I don’t care who designed it. Most of the non-pants boots are beautiful and totally wearable, though, so try to focus on those and maybe the waders will disappear into a dark Hermes archive somewhere. One can only hope.

